Zork Machine Interpreter and Debugger (ZORKMID for short)

$ ./zorkmid ~/IF/Infocom/Zork1V88.z3

ZORK I: The Great Underground Empire
Copyright (c) 1981, 1982, 1983 Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved.
ZORK is a registered trademark of Infocom, Inc.
Revision 88 / Serial number 840726

West of House
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front
door.
There is a small mailbox here.

I
I don’t know the word “i”.

EXAMINE MAILBOX
I don’t know the word “examine”.

quit
I don’t know the word “quit”.

It just doesn’t seem to know any words. The same happens with every story file I’ve tried. The included EXE file works fine in Wine; maybe there’s something wrong with the way I compiled the binary (but I just typed gcc zorkmid.c -o zorkmid).