Infocom's Z-Machine Specification

Original Files

The original source files for the various Z-Machine specifications.

LaTeX versions

The meaning of the Scribe commands matched reasonably well with LaTeX, and I ported the EZip and XZip Specification source to LaTeX more or less by hand. I used the resulting EZip/XZip LaTex files as a guide to convert the Zip Specification from Runoff to LaTex. I may one day do the same with the YZip text.

PDF

The LaTeX sources, compiled to PDF. The style of the result doesn't look much like what Infocom would have used, a problem I may fix one day if I ever get around to it.

YZip Scan PDF

A scanned copy of the YZip specification that has been floating around the web for several years, for comparison with the PDFs produced for the earlier specifications.