ZEMU

A Z-machine emulator for the TI-84+ CE.

Table of Contents

1. Quick Start
2. Background
3. Installation

Quick Start

To get started, jump to the section that describes your interest:

• I just want to play Zork I.
• I want to play any (version 3) Infocom/Inform text-based adventure game.
• I want a Z-machine debugger.

Background

What is the Z-machine?

The Z-machine is a virtual machine developed by Infocom for their text-based adventure games. One of their most-well known (and first) games is Zork. An interpreter program is required to play any of their games (generally distributed as .DAT files).

What is special about ZEMU?

While many interpreters have been written for the major OSes, ZEMU is the first interpreter for any TI-83/84 calculator.

So What?

You can finally play Zork on your TI-84+ CE.

Installation

Playing Zork

1. Copy bin/zemu.8xp to your TI-84+ CE. (This is ZEMU.)
2. Copy everything in vars/zork/ to your TI-84+ CE. (This is Zork's game data & some metadata.)