Zoom
Zoom is a Z-Machine, which means that it plays text adventure games
written in ZCode. The original games were written by a company
called 'Infocom' in the 80's: these are available on the
Infocom Masterpieces CD, published by Activision. Unfortunately,
Activision seems to have lost interest in this title - however,
there are a few companies that have a stock of this CD (I bought
mine from here). In
around 1993, a compiler called 'Inform' was released that
allowed ordinary mortals to create their own ZCode
adventures. This sparked quite a revival, and there are many
games available for download here.
Inform itself has a homepage here
No doubt you've been patiently scrolling though this page
looking for the stuff, so here it is:
- The ubiquitous screenshots of Zoom
in action.
- Zoom 1.1.5
(the
most recent source snapshot (05/11/2011). Zoom is distributed under the
terms of the GNU general
public licence.. This version requires expat 1.95.7 or
later to compile. Under OS X, you will also require CocoaGlk 1.0.7
and the Sparkle framework.
- Zoom 1.1.4
(r3016, 02/06/2009)
- Zoom 1.1.3
(r2994, 17/01/2009)
- Zoom 1.1.2 (19/11/2007)
- Zoom 1.1.1 (r2691, 27/07/2007)
- Zoom 1.1.0
(r2495, 28/04/2007)
- Zoom 1.0.5
(r2038, 30/04/2006)
- Zoom 1.0.4a [Mirror]
(r1909, 12/10/2005)
- Zoom 1.0.3 [Mirror]
(r1788, 03/08/2005)
- Zoom 1.0.2 [Mirror]
- Zoom 1.0.2beta2 [Mirror]
(r1576, 16/02/2005)
- Zoom 1.0.2beta1 [Mirror]
(r1336, 02/10/2004)
- Zoom 1.0.2alpha2
(r1123, 20/04/2004)
- Zoom 1.0.2alpha1
This version requires expat 1.95.7 or
later to compile.
- Zoom 1.0.1a patch
This fixes some minor build problems and a couple of typos.
- Zoom 1.0.1
- Patch from
1.0.1beta3a to 1.0.1beta3b. This patch contains a minor
fix that improves display performance under certain
circumstances.
- Zoom 1.0.1beta3a
- Patch from 1.0.1beta3 to
1.0.1beta3a - you only need to apply this if you are
having trouble compiling Zoom.
- Zoom 1.0.1beta2
- Zoom 1.0.1beta1
- Zoom 1.0.0
- Zoom 0.9.99beta5
- Zoom 0.9.99beta4
- Zoom 0.9.99beta3
- Zoom 0.9.99beta2
- Zoom 0.9.0beta1
- The compiled windows version
(now very out of date)
- The compiled Mac OS X version
- The manual for Zoom
Andrew Hunter