The Z-machine is a virtual machine that was developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank in 1979 and used by Infocom for its text adventure games. Infocom compiled... 11 KB (1,207 words) - 15:20, 22 April 2024 |
Z machine may refer to: Z-machine, a text-based game interpreter Z Pulsed Power Facility, an x-ray generator at Sandia National Laboratories, informally... 255 bytes (64 words) - 17:06, 4 November 2014 |
format for the saved state of Z-machine games, invented by Martin Frost. Prior to the introduction of Quetzal, each Z-machine interpreter saved games in... 3 KB (255 words) - 17:32, 13 December 2021 |
general-purpose engine like Infocom's z-machine, which Graham Nelson argues is "possibly the most portable virtual machine ever created". Significant advances... 26 KB (2,755 words) - 07:54, 6 May 2024 |
direction of the current in the devices, the Z-axis on a Cartesian three-dimensional graph. Any machine that causes a pinch effect due to current running... 14 KB (1,740 words) - 19:17, 12 May 2024 |
Z, z, -z, z', or z- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Z, or z, is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet. Z may also refer to: Z (1969... 7 KB (983 words) - 06:38, 4 April 2024 |
on a standardized virtual machine called the Z-machine. As the games were text based and used variants of the same Z-machine interpreter, the interpreter... 55 KB (6,419 words) - 14:09, 8 May 2024 |
Glulx (category Virtual machines) to relieve some of the restrictions in the venerable Z-machine format. For example, the Z-machine provides native support for 16-bit integers, while Glulx... 2 KB (227 words) - 14:46, 25 March 2024 |