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Zinc is the Z Interpreter with Network Capabilities.
Zinc allows you to play text adventure games (also known as interactive
fiction) either on your own, or cooperatively over a network. It comes with
interpreters for two of the most popular interactive fiction file formats
-- Z-machine games, and TADS games.
A common problem when playing adventure games is drawing a map of the
game world. Seasoned players will be glad to hear that Zinc has a powerful
map facility to make this process as painless as possible.
Zinc's networking capabilities are possibly unique. They enable several
players to work together to try to solve a game.
Zinc can be downloaded and run on any platform for which Java 1.4 is
available.
Please note that Zinc is also the name of an arcade emulator, a
graphical toolkit for Tk, and a reimplementation of CP/M. For more
information about these other types of Zinc please see our
links page.
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