Infocom, the legendary studio behind text adventures like Zork, faced financial decline following a failed attempt to diversify into business software with their 1985 database program, Cornerstone. While intended to leverage their virtual machine technology, the software was notoriously slow and struggled against IBM-compatible systems. Now, thanks to new work by developer TaradinoC, an interpreter called Linchpin allows this obscure piece of software to run on modern PCs.
