Zoom is a Z-Machine, which means that it plays text adventure games written in ZCode. The original games were written by a company called 'Infocom' in the 80's: these are available on the Infocom Masterpieces CD, published by Activision. Unfortunately, Activision seems to have lost interest in this title - however, there are a few companies that have a stock of this CD. In around 1993, a compiler called 'Inform' was released that allowed ordinary mortals to create their own ZCode adventures. This sparked quite a revival, and there are many games available for download.
What is new in this release:
The binary distribution also includes runners for TADS 2/3 and Hugo games, with plugins for other formats available for download. It also adds many improvements to the way Zoom displays games and can be extended to run new story formats via plug-ins.
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