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		bernds74 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft makes Zork open-source There's this: https://www.ifwiki.org/ZILF https://zilf.io/ Although I haven't played with it and can't tell you whether it can compile the open source Zork.

WorldMaker 5 months ago [–]

The blog post itself suggests using ZILF.

I hope some of those other Infocom tools eventually get open sourced for historic curiosity, but ZILF is probably going to remain the modern answer for how to compile these files.

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