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ZILF

Based off of ZIL tools used by Infocom to originally create their game titles. Just like Inform 6, ZILF (along with ZAPF) compiles source files to zcode. It can compile to other versions, such as 3 (default), 4, 5 and 8.

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  • Free
  • Open Source

Platforms

  • Windows
  • Linux
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What is ZILF?

ZILF is an interactive fiction / text adventure command-line (CLI) tool set compiled from dot Net 5 (as of current), which is ported to Windows and Linux OSes that are x64 (compatible with both ARM32 and ARM64 Linux distros). It maintained and developed by Jesse McGrew. It's current release is v0.9. ZILF uses the same lisp-like syntax of ZIL (Infocom's Zork Interpreted Language) and is built on top of MDL (which ZIL was also built on top of). When compiled with ZAPF, it can output to zcode v3 (default), v4, v5 and v8. v6 is very theoretical, but as of yet to be proven to be compiled. v7 is not possible to compile, however v8 is far superior and chosen over v7 by the majority. The toolset comes with ZILF and ZAPF executables (and the dynamic link libraries that dot Net outputs for it execute), along with various libraries in ZIL extension, such as the mandatory parser and verbs to create a standard text adventure / interactive fiction game.