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Gunther Schmidl wrote:

> > Also, on a related note, was Cornerstone produced using a Z-Machine?
> It was advertised as having a machine-independent runtime, yeah.

Was it a Z-Machine version, though, or something only vaguely related?


> However,
> since it was only ever released for MS-DOS and crashes and burns if you run
> it from a hard drive larger than, say, 20 megabytes, it isn't very
> successful nowadays ;-)

Well, I didn't say I wanted to use it as my "enterprise solution"...I was
mostly just wondering what the limits of Z-Machine programming might have been
at the time.  Also, vaguely in the back of my mind, I guess, is wondering what
directions the Z-Machine might have grown, had Infocom survived longer.


