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 Message 629 
 Rob Swindell to Brian Rogers 
 Z80 emulated games 
 20 Jul 21 20:27:42 
 
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  Re: Z80 emulated games
  By: Brian Rogers to Rob Swindell on Tue Jul 20 2021 07:12 pm

 > Just out of curiosity, is there a way to get Z80 emulated stuff to run as
 > a door under Sychronet? I have a copy of Zork that runs under my URONode
 > Packet Radio node but I can't think of how Synchronet could handle this.
 > Any idea?

The Zork games are not actually Z80 programs, but rather ZMachine binaries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine

They can be run in native Z-Machine environments for modern OSes and interface
(yes) with Synchronet users.
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