Zilch

Zilch
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Developer	Marc Blank
Format	Z-code
Interaction style	Parser
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Zilch (the ZIL Compiler Hack) was the name of the compiler that Infocom used to compile ZIL source code into Z-code story files, targeting the Z-machine. Zilch was created by Marc Blank.

Zilch was an internal Infocom tool, and thus never made public, but an early version of Zilch (implemented in MDL) and ZAP has emerged:

• ZIL at The Obsessively Complete Infocom Catalog links to many sources and documents.
• Roman Bartke's ZILCH How-to describes getting this version up and running again.