Z-machine
The Z-machine is a virtual machine that was developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank in 1979 and used by Infocom for its text adventure games. Infocom compiled game code to files containing Z-machine instructions (called story files, or Z-code files), and could therefore port all its text adventures to a new platform simply by writing a Z-machine implementation for that platform. With the large number of incompatible home computer systems in use at the time, this was an important advantage over using native code or developing a compiler for each system.
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Z-machine
The Z-machine is a virtual machine that was developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank in 1979 and used by Infocom for its text adventure games. Infocom compiled game code to files containing Z-machine instructions (called story files, or Z-code files), and could therefore port all its text adventures to a new platform simply by writing a Z-machine implementation for that platform. With the large number of incompatible home computer systems in use at the time, this was an important advantage over using native code or developing a compiler for each system.
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Die Z-machine ist eine virtuel ...... hr großen Spielen ausreichend.
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La Z-machine est une machine v ...... ses jeux d'aventure textuels.
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La Z-machine, o macchina Z, è ...... gi per computer più portabili.
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Máquina-Z es una máquina virtu ...... ame, en un ordenador personal.
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The Z-machine is a virtual mac ...... of the existing Infocom files.
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Z-machine とは、Joel BerezとMarc Blankによって1979年に開発され、Infocom社のテキストアドベンチャーゲームに使用された仮想機械である。
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Die Z-machine ist eine virtuel ...... inkompatiblen Heimcomputer-Sys
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La Z-machine est une machine v ...... ses jeux d'aventure textuels.
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La Z-machine, o macchina Z, è ...... la scrittura di codice nativo.
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Máquina-Z es una máquina virtu ...... ame, en un ordenador personal.
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The Z-machine is a virtual mac ...... ng a compiler for each system.
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Z-machine とは、Joel BerezとMarc Blankによって1979年に開発され、Infocom社のテキストアドベンチャーゲームに使用された仮想機械である。
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Z-machine
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Z-machine
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Z-machine
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Z-machine
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Z-machine
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