For those of us who just have a standard machine, maybe TS-DOS in the ROM slot, and either a floppy drive or Backpack drive, was there ever an option to run the Z Machine in a floppy-interactive mode? I know that 32k max RAM is just not enough to hold the interpreter and an adventure, so external storage is a must, but not everyone has a REX.
--Justin On Wed, 2025-12-03 at 09:07 -0600, Mike Hyde wrote: > I downloaded Zork, used z100pkg on it, and it created the bx files. > I then loaded it on a 102 with rex# 4.9, but when I try running it > it crashes with error #1f58. > > Does it run for anyone else, or just something I’m doing wrong. > > > > On Dec 2, 2025, at 8:18 PM, Joshua O'Keefe > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Dec 2, 2025, at 5:26 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > https://www.club100.org/memfiles/index.php?&direction=0&order=nom&directory=Clinton%20Reddekop > > > > That's really cool, thanks for the pointer to it. I made some > > modifications to the documentation and added a build script so that > > non-Windows systems can use this. The code itself, for the tool as > > well as the toolchain, was already completely portable. No code > > changes were needed. The docs only provided instructions for > > Windows, so I updated those in addition to clarifying some steps. > > > > It should now build on macOS, most standard Linux setups, and > > obviously Windows as well. > > > > I put the more portable repackaging on my S3 > > bucket: http://public.nachomountain.com/files/m100/ > > >
