ZIL Links - Useful ZIL & ZILF Links

[Happy MAC XL]

After the Infocom source code was released on Github last month our Facebook group has tripled to well over 550+ members! So much interest now in the ZIL text adventure game language and ZILF comipler, good times. :)

However, not everyone likes Facebook so for the benefit of those that aren't please see below a copy of the Useful Links that we maintain over there. Hope you like it!

Zil links galore!

All the ZIL files to download
https://bitbucket.org/jmcgrew/zilf/wiki/Home

Learning ZIL on Google docs:
The documentation on the ZIL language
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gwy2VpnqXwMIf3wQFgYJD-lFyeyXr1FqGbOIJefreTY/edit

Zil Quick Code example (thanks Adam):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FPwwQUla5ceI4TIVWAuaOThL_0S6eAOP/view?fbclid=IwAR1yyPq6cwsJqogX8uJcIWf9pqRhEooJR-RXLCtNRlTE2Lz6mrnTxMmZEOA

Infocom source code that we've tweaked/fixed so it compiles using ZILF is here ....
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FThe-ZIL-Files%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2VtrrOT2nc2mefX_BFIet9xCoSLJyacHiuYN2oaGKOztt9e24LgL-w9kU&h=AT3-msDQ2FKpk4Yt1gcjFxJoDOWfFwtKRmLqf-XKnimpASrazLMfc9Uewle3BkNQo4fep8cjufmpjI-34TvoVxWRdX9Hv8gvJFy9OaljMOkjeXj0SkV86lGyEHtG-ldiYA2DaA

Historical Source - Overview
A collection of historical source files for education and perusal
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fhistoricalsource%3Ftab%3Drepositories%26fbclid%3DIwAR0nIe9oM7EZmZXwfgoxN-uQ_I4RI5j5nfER5wziHxDt-10rUtXgt0tdvtk&h=AT3kEcfbH4mXsGwMMPBEJQZ5VJWDRiB3BBR2ydhk4PmfeJbPx32DCwMrgMIEDRfqpXGaEUIl4IHaf8Gb4etO4SyUT8xqzH4OjboKc6Pej8ELCrTPVDlpaQLtI8JlEugSjULW

The original Infocom source code as uploaded by Jason Scott recently...
https://github.com/historicalsource?tab=repositories

Articles - History
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Long Lost ‘Zork’ Source Code Uploaded to GitHub, But Few People Understand It
Apr 18 2019
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3xdk8/long-lost-zork-source-code-uploaded-to-github-but-few-people-understand-it?fbclid=IwAR3JzPUWLQo5ikmaEm5FVseUkB53kz_PCHGsrkX0cljtcsTZ5tYY-hoeg1A

The History of Zork
https://web.archive.org/web/20090116035446/http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/Articles/NZT/zorkhist.html

PDP-10/its
https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/813?fbclid=IwAR27b_Kh-EQCQ2eZM1TH6uYdFwG_s6aRUV_JBZEy3-rxlA1kOkP2iNwWk2A
Bob Supnik usually gets the credit for ... borrowing Zork source code. But there was anoher: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/813

VIDEOS
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ZIL - Where to start - Quick Code Guide:
How to write and run an ultra-simple (1 room, 1 object) game in ZIL

Game On! - Infocom text games and ZIL
1:21:50
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/416801231?fbclid=IwAR0ENXQSxEBgZkq5qva19pJSJBvKE3xJXK-K98orNwAC25gJ4YujL2Mrg1c&sr=a&t=17s

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Zork - Infocom - Zork Implementation Language
4:44

Banana Retro
Published on Apr 23, 2019
A nice quick overview video, featuring an interview with Dave Lebling, on Zork and MDL and ZIL.

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ZIL - Zork Implementation Language - History of the Language
8:10

Banana Retro
Published on Apr 25, 2019
ZIL is short for Zork Implementation Language, a programming language (based on MDL) developed by Marc Blank and Joel Berez of Infocom, and is a descendant of the artificial intelligence language LISP.

Footage recorded by Jason Scott as part of his Get Lamp interview archive.

Original interview video here: https://archive.org/details/getlamp_b...

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The Infocom Source Code Episode
19:27

Jason Scott
Published on Apr 28, 2019
The Infocom Source Code Episode: The Specialness of Infocom, The Craft, The Z-Machine, Z-Machine Glories, Full Sentences and Every Platform, GET LAMP, The Infocom .ZIP File, A Release, Stu Galley, Github, The Clones and Branches, Steve and Kevin have a chat. An episode about the release of the Infocom Source Code on Github. It's currently available on the HistoricalSource collection there: https://github.com/historicalsource

The ZIL Language is now having a little renaissance and I hope to see some actual games come out of it. Until then, I'm not kidding - type in the name of any Infocom game and you can probably be playing it within seconds.

I recommend a walk through the document Steve Meretzky wrote at Infocom to explain the ZIL source code here: https://archive.org/details/Learning_...

Here's the video of the chat with Steve and Kevin: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/416801231

[Happy MAC XL]

A couple of those didn't paste correctly; amended below:

Infocom source code that we've tweaked/fixed so it compiles using ZILF is here ....
https://github.com/The-ZIL-Files?fbclid=IwAR2VtrrOT2nc2mefX_BFIet9xCoSLJyacHiuYN2oaGKOztt9e24LgL-w9kU

Historical Source - Overview
A collection of historical source files for education and perusal
https://github.com/historicalsource?tab=repositories&fbclid=IwAR0nIe9oM7EZmZXwfgoxN-uQ_I4RI5j5nfER5wziHxDt-10rUtXgt0tdvtk

[Adam Thornton]

Post by Happy MAC XL
After the Infocom source code was released on Github last month our
Facebook group has tripled to well over 550+ members! So much interest
now in the ZIL text adventure game language and ZILF comipler, good
times. :)

I'll also point out that if you want Frotz for TOPS-20...it's a thing.

https://github.com/athornton/tops20-frotz

Work is underway in two different directions simultaneously: 1) put a
not-so-dumb-Frotz interface on it, and 2) port to ITS.

I have a day job, so no promises on the timeframe of either of those.

Adam

[Gurgi Sims]

Post by Happy MAC XL
After the Infocom source code was released on Github last month our Facebook group has tripled to well over 550+ members! So much interest now in the ZIL text adventure game language and ZILF comipler, good times. :)
However, not everyone likes Facebook so for the benefit of those that aren't please see below a copy of the Useful Links that we maintain over there. Hope you like it!

Thanks for doing this from one of the apparently three people left on Earth without a FB account :)
-G.

[Adam Thornton]

Post by Happy MAC XL

Post by Happy MAC XL
After the Infocom source code was released on Github last month our

Facebook group has tripled to well over 550+ members! So much interest
now in the ZIL text adventure game language and ZILF comipler, good
times. :)

Post by Happy MAC XL
However, not everyone likes Facebook so for the benefit of those that

aren't please see below a copy of the Useful Links that we maintain over
there. Hope you like it!
Thanks for doing this from one of the apparently three people left on
Earth without a FB account :)

Guess I am the second of the three.

Adam

[Gene Wirchenko]

Post by Adam Thornton

Post by Happy MAC XL

Post by Happy MAC XL
After the Infocom source code was released on Github last month our

Facebook group has tripled to well over 550+ members! So much interest
now in the ZIL text adventure game language and ZILF comipler, good
times. :)

Post by Happy MAC XL
However, not everyone likes Facebook so for the benefit of those that

aren't please see below a copy of the Useful Links that we maintain over
there. Hope you like it!
Thanks for doing this from one of the apparently three people left on
Earth without a FB account :)

Guess I am the second of the three.

Third one here. I once tried to set one up. My registration
was rejected. Why? Who knows? Just as well considering, I think.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko