Someone Built a Z-Machine

[Sandsquish (Walter)]

Put An ItsyBitsy Zork In Your Pocket

[Dannii]

To be specific, they ported a Z-Machine interpreter to run on a small Arduino device.

There have also been projects to make an actual hardware implementation of the Z-Machine, such as this Verilog project implementing version 3 of the spec:

GitHub - charcole/Z3: A Verilog implementation of the Infocom Z-Machine V3....

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Z-Machine Implemented in Hardware

Hi, I thought people here might be interested in this. It’s the V3 Z-Machine implemented in an FPGA so Z-code runs natively without an interpreter. Presumably the first ever implementation in hardware as no one else would be crazy enough to do it To avoid any suggestion of cheating I purposely didn’t microcode the CPU (if I had it could be argued it’s still an interpreter) so not particularly efficient in terms of number of gates used but still fits on very cheap (<£10) FPGA dev …