And fixed the permissions on the link to not ask for authentication.
> On Mar 20, 2026, at 8:44 AM, Mike Hyde <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Here is a link to the download I have until the site gets fixed up:
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> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1r56yLTWeiie7f628bDVsJUifc0qOPd61?usp=drive_link
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> To make the program work with the latest version of REX, you need to alter
> z100.asm and change:
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> namdir equ 06400h ;? FOR REX v4.9 +
> to
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> namdir equ 06100h ;? FOR REX v4.9 +
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> On 2026-03-20 00:50, 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.
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>> 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?
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>> 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!)
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>> 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
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