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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Max Fog
Max Fog is a young author who works in the old Infocom coding language, ZIL (Zork Implementation Language). His work so far includes the parser game Milliways: the Restaurant at the End of the Universe; as well as the minimal choice games Thread Unlocked. and Method in my Madness.