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From: gdr11@cus.cam.ac.uk (Gareth Rees)
Subject: Re: How do Infocom games work?
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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1993 01:13:28 GMT
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Brian Kendig wrote:
|> How do Infocom games work?  I've heard that the game data files are
|> just arrays of opcodes; I take it the interpreter is just a big state
|> machine?  Does anyone have a list of all the opcodes used in Infocom
|> game files?

There is some information on this on the archive at ftp.gmd.de in
the files:

    /if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform/manual
    /if-archive/infocom/interpreters/itf/itf-pl2-src.tar.Z

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Gareth Rees
