Interactive fiction is a genre of gaming that includes the popular text
adventure games such as Zork and advent.  Interactive fiction games come in
many varieties such as programs, game cartridges, or zcodes.  Zcodes are
Infocom/Inform format.  To play them, you need a Zcode interpreter such as
frotz.  Interpreters are available for many platforms, so zcode games can be
used all over.

The if-archive mirror is a huge assortment of interactive fiction of all
types.  It also includes many zcode games and zcode interpreters for various
platforms.  I have also assembled some zcode games (particularly ones that
are notibly missing from if-archive) and interpreters here in the zcode
section.  if-archive is a good place to check first, though.

-- jgoerzen@complete.org
Aug 22, 2000