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.
A site dedicated to the preservation and curation of the many games and worlds created with ZZT. ZZT is a text-mode game from 1991 created by Tim Sweeney of Epic Games.
