Last week @hkz geektrapped me into understanding how "z5" format text adventures were distributed on the Apple II. A tool, interlz5, was written some years ago. Today, the source seems to be lost. I reverse-engineered what interlz5 was doing, and wrote my own version, interl5.py. (the z got lost, sorry). And just now I blogged about it: https://emergent.unpythonic.net/01765766083

Let's hope this one doesn't get lost too.

(also just to confess, until I tried to @ them in this post I was sure hkz's handle was kHz, a fitting name for someone dabbling in old and slow computers)

#interactiveFiction #zMachine #z5