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zfiles.z8
ported from text by Gunther Schmidl (19 May 1998)
Requires a Z-Code interpreter. Visit IFWiki for download links.
ZCatalog990722.zip
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Contains ZCatalog.htm
HTML version, ported by Michael Baum; 22 July 1999
(Compressed with ZIP. Free Unzip tools are available for most systems at www.info-zip.org.)
ZCatalog990722.txt
Readme file for the above (also contained in the Windows help file version and in the HTML)
ZCatalog.chm
Windows help file format, ported by Michael Baum and Paul de Valmency, updated by Michael Baum (22 July 1999)
inform-gamelist.txt
last version of text format list, by Neil James Brown: Release 5 / 971015

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A list from 1998 of the then-available English-language Z-code games and other programs, rendered as a Z-code program itself. (A non-Z-code version of this list was maintained until July 1999.)

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Baf's Guide

A catalog of all the freeware games produced in the Z-machine format, which is the output of the latter-day IF language Inform and its older counterpart created by the company Infocom, ZIL. The catalog was originally created by Brendon Wyber and Neil James Brown as a plain old list, then converted into a Z-code file and updated by Gunther Schmidl, then converted into HTML and updated by Michael Baum, and then ported to a series of Win98 help files by Paul de Valmency. Has nice little summaries of each game, and while it doesn't represent all, or even most, of the freeware IF produced (since a big chunk of it has been written in non-Z-code languages), it's an interesting guide for those who want to know more about the Z-machine.

-- Duncan Stevens

Game Details

Language: English (en)
Current Version: Release 3
License: Freeware
Development System: Inform 6

IFWiki: Z-Files

Baf's Guide ID: 415
IFID: ZCODE-3-980519-994A
TUID: 3z2rnroqhrtm78ka

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