= Dorothy

Dorothy is a z-machine interpreter library.  It's core is C (taken in part from
Frotz), the interface is Ruby.  Ideally this project forms the basis for
writing interpreters and other tools.

The two most critical references for this are:

  * The Z-Machine Standards Document <http://www.inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point0/index.html>
  * Frotz's source code <http://frotz.sourceforge.net/>

= Demo

There is a demo webapp that uses Dorothy at iFrotz <http://ifrotz.org>.

= Testing

You'll need the Inform 6 to compile the test programs <http://www.inform-fiction.org/software/index.html>.

= Sample IRB Session

eki@indus> irb -r dorothy                                    ~/projects/dorothy
>> m = Z::Machine.new( "minizork.z3" )
=> #<Z::Machine:0xb7cd7be0>

>> m.run
=> nil

>> m.output
=> ["MINI-ZORK I: ", "The Great Underground Empire", "\n", "Copyright (c) 1988
Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved.\nZORK is a registered trademark of Infocom,
Inc.\nRelease ", 34, " / Serial number ", "8", "7", "1", "1", "2", "4", "\n",
"\n", "West of House", "\n", "You are standing in an open field west of a white
house, with a boarded front door. ", "You could circle the house to the north
or south.", "\n", "There is a ", "small mailbox", " here", ".", "\n", "\n",
">"]

>> m.output.clear     
=> []

>> m.keyboard << "open mailbox\n"
=> "open mailbox\n"
>> m.run
=> nil

>> m.output
=> ["> ", "open mailbox", "\n", "Opening the ", "small mailbox", " reveals ",
"a ", "leaflet", ".\n", "\n", ">"]