A Puny(Inform) Achievement

While trying out “full-screen video for the (emulated) TRS-80,” I took another look at some message boards recommended by the emulator and video player’s programmer. On one of them, I happened on another recent accomplishment for those old computers, one better aligned with my impressions of their homely capabilities. Someone had programmed a new “Z-machine interpreter,” which could play more of Infocom’s interactive fiction and the text adventures built afterwards on a foundation of reverse engineering than the interpreters Infocom had provided for Radio Shack’s computers in the 1980s. I could put the interpreter file and the “Z-code” games on a disk image (even if I had to use a Windows utility via Wine), and proved the concept with “MST3K: Detective.”
( That was just the beginning )