I did a quick conversion of Zork I in Italian both for the C64 and Plus/4, and hey presto, it works like a charmThe rules about adventure games' porting are now changed forever!
Johan Berntsson and Fredrik Ramsberg have just freed in the wild Ozmoo Online, a page to build Z-code text adventures for use on C64, C128 and Plus/4, based on the Ozmoo interpreter. The online version itself includes a dozen of famous Infocom's classics as Z-code, which weren't previously ported on Plus/4 [and Commodore 64 and 128], to be converted literally in few seconds! You can also change some parameters about text and colors, you can add a bitmap picture before loading the main code, and choose the final medium format (.prg/single or multi .D64/.D81). This would mean that anybody not only can pack up his own jewel version of the same adventure, but – I repeat: literally in few seconds! – one can pick up his Z-code adventure from hundreds of them stored in the Z-code archives (e.g.: if-archive, just to say the largely known around), and easily pack up his version, perfectly working, to be run on his C64, C128 or Plus/4!
Just to have an idea, Luca has packed up a porting of the Infocom's most famous Plundered Hearts, in a very little time. In-cre-di-ble!
.Now I'm trying to figure out how to produce koala picture files to implement as initial splash screen.
Try it out, one of the best things produced in this unfortunate year:
http://microheaven.com/ozmooonline/
