This is awesome. Presumably if this worked in Elm, Clojure would work too. There’s a very cool niche community around these games for those who don’t know. Vespers was one of the best games I ever played. Check out ifdb for games. There are mobile players available too.
Although its core is low level, PostScript is a pretty good language by some metrics; it's often been claimed to be a (supposedly accidental) dialect of Forth with some powerful features bolted on.
What makes Zmachine.ps so bad? Certain programming issues, or are you going off a general feel?
Portability between different computers is only a secondary reason for the Z-machine. The most important reason is code size, making the largest possible game that can fit on a floppy disk.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 24.9 ms ] threadOn Games, get Tristam Island and Calypso in the Z3 versions.
What makes Zmachine.ps so bad? Certain programming issues, or are you going off a general feel?
See the article “How to Fit a Large Program Into a Small Machine” by Marc S. Blank and S. W. Galley, in the July 1980 issue of Creative Computing. https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1980-07/page/n...