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A fast and compact library for writing text adventure games for the Z-machine running on 8-bit computers as well as other platforms.

5 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 2 stories, 3 comments · first 2020-07-11 · latest 2026-08-17

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  1. Also, a micro Inform6 compiler+library: https://github.com/johanberntsson/PunyInform Tristam Island as an example: https://github.com/hlabrand/tristam-island
  2. …very similar, but the resulting games are much smaller and faster, to work well on 8-bit computers. https://github.com/johanberntsson/PunyInform There's currently a jam going on. Three PunyInform games have been released, and anyone can…
    comment by framsberg · 2021-11-25 · in The Further Text Adventures of Scott Adams
  3. …games will run anywhere, even on the C64, Spectrum, MSX, BBC, Linux, OSX, Windows... everywhere. https://github.com/johanberntsson/PunyInform Example on a commercial Z3 game: https://hlabrande.itch.io/tristam-island A libre one (Calypso):…
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    PunyInforrm: Library for text adventure games for Z-machine on 8-bit computers
    story by ingve · 2021-04-16 · 0 comments
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    PunyInform, library for writing interactiveFiction in Inform6 for 8bit computers
    story by homarp · 2020-07-11 · 0 comments