Z-Comp
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Z-Comp (also called "Z-machine Compo") is a competition for writing Z-machine games. They are held on ifMUD; enter apartment 11011 and go northwest.
Some features of the Z-machine cannot be used in this competition:
- Unicode
- Blorb
- Sound effects/pictures (other than a beep sound effect, 1 and 2)
- Version 6
- Auxiliary files
It is somewhat encouraged (although not required) to use "unusual" features of the Z-machine, such as:
- Overlapping and shared property tables
- Repointing property tables at runtime
- Sharing global variables with default properties, object headers, etc
- Modifying the alphabet table at runtime
- Not being restricted to the word separators, dictionary format, etc of Inform
- Modifying the dictionary at runtime
- Self-modifying code in RAM
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