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ZORK TERMINALbrowser Z-machine

MIT-licensed historical story files · Parchment interpreter

A small dark room for old parser magic.

Choose a Zork story and play it entirely in your browser. Commands to try: look, inventory, north, take lamp.

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license and source notes

Zork I–III story files are loaded from local copies of the compiled Z-machine files in the historicalsource repositories. Those repositories currently carry an MIT License with Copyright (c) 2025 Microsoft. Parchment is an MIT-licensed browser interactive-fiction player.

Not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft, Activision, or Infocom. The bundled license text files are in zork/licenses/.