The Z-machine is the interpreter that Infocom created to allow them to write a game once and run it on a wide variety of different computers.
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Ian Greener recalls the vibrant early hobbyist IF scene in the UK, briefly discussing The Hobbit, The Philosopher's Quest, and interactive fiction creation tool The Quill, before turning to a long discussion of the 1984 game Hampstead.
Victor and manonamora report the results from the fourth quadrennial poll of the community's all-time favorite interactive fiction.
Mike Russo analyzes limited-parser games and parser-like choice games, and compares their design and motivations to those of graphical point-n-click adventure games.
Drew chats to critically acclaimed IF author Autumn Chen.