I picked some files at random; some download, some don't On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 2:53 AM Brian K. White <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ken Petit needs to take a look. > > You can browse the member uploads directory, but not actually download > the file. > > This link works for me. But it just gets you to the page containing the > file. > > https://club100.org/memfiles/index.php?direction=0&order=&directory=Clinton%20Reddekop&; > > You can even see the contents of the zip: > > https://www.club100.org/memfiles/index.php?action=view&filename=z100v0.1.zip&directory=Clinton%20Reddekop&; > > The actual file download does not work > > https://club100.org/memfiles/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=z100v0.1.zip&directory=Clinton%20Reddekop&; > > > And this time the internet archive does not save us. > > > > On 3/20/26 01:50, B 9 wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2026 at 9:28 AM Alan Cox <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > The Visible Zorker is super nifty! I totally see what you mean > > about the language being Lispy. Did people program directly in > > it or was it just a p-code target for game generator programs? > > I'm looking forward to exploring it more and seeing if it will > > let me modify and execute code on the fly, but first I better > > play through Zork 2; I've never tried it before and it is clear > > these twisty passages are full of spoilers. > > > > > > It was a pcode engine for the game code written in the lisp type > > stuff. There's a totally non lisp game compiler for it as well > > (inform) that was written independently. > > > > The Zork language (ZIL) comes from MDL which actually was a lisp and > > is similar to DDL and ADL from UCLA. > > > > > > So, the Z-machine is the pcode engine and both ZIL and Inform are > > languages that target that virtual machine, right? > > > > John: The Z-machine link <https://club100.org/memfiles/index.php? > > &direction=0&order=&directory=Clinton%20Reddekop> you sent shows an > > overview, but gives "500: Try Again Later" when I click download > > <https://club100.org/memfiles/index.php? > > action=downloadfile&filename=z100v0.1.zip&directory=Clinton%20Reddekop>. > > Is there some way to access the member files without the PHP script? > > > > I also looked for a ZIL/MDL interpreter that I could run on the Model T > > computers and it seems that in times of yore those tools ran on bigger > > hardware (PDP-10 running ITS) and little computers like ours would only > > connect as terminals. The best current tool I could find was ZILF > > <https://zilf.io> which will run on a modern PC. Since my Tandy 200 > > already logs in on my PC's serial port, it should theoretically work. > > Unfortunately, it doesn't yet. While ZILF's command line "REPL" looks > > very nifty, it ignores the TERMINFO database and locks up as soon as I > > hit BKSP, looping on an error message that my T200's screen dimension is > > -1. (Yes, a Model T displays less than 80 columns of text, but I assure > > you, it is not less than zero!) > > > > Thank you for the resources! I've read through some of the manuals, now > > I have to actually build something in order to learn it. > > > > —b9 > > > > > -- > bkw >
