parchment VS grapevine

This is a fun one I played recently about shopping in a grocery store, called Aisle. You only have a single command you can give for the whole game, but there's a looot of them you can provide, and it gives you a different ending for each. Part of the fun is trying to figure out what you can say to find another ending. You can play it directly at the link below.

Play: https://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifarchive.org%2F...

Paste any of those URLs into https://iplayif.com for a modern web interpreter.

it's a mobile browser based on chrome and while I don't use it for this, I find it acceptable enough, actually better than the mobile chrome in my phone for some things, like https://iplayif.com/ which runs much better on it thanks to a generous virtual screen than on small screen sharing space with a virtual keyboard...

This article is interesting as it seems "the long way around": the Z-Machine is rather well documented, and already has VMs for the web [1] and going to the ZIL source to build a port of the ZIL itself rather than to interpret the Z-Machine binary is cool, I suppose, but ignores decades of insights into the Z-Machine.

While I'm being a downer, also need to point out that while the Internet Archive has archived the ZIL source code the Zork games are still under copyright and owned by Activision Blizzard (soon/now Microsoft). Using Zork itself as a deployment artifact is a possible way to get sued even if you think the game "abandonware".

[1] The best known/maintained is Parchment: https://github.com/curiousdannii/parchment

Are you using the latest version of Parchment? The version that ships with the official I7 packages is very old. Updating might address your issue, but I don't know.

grapevine.haus/

I've heard of people having decent results using the Grapevine web client on iOS, although an iPad with a physical keyboard is probably much preferred over an on-screen keyboard. The only catch is that the game has to be registered with Grapevine and the web client enabled, as far as I know at least.

There's also still some diehard MU* players out there, and some modern servers in active development. See Ares MUSH and Evennia (a MUD-like server), directories https://mustard.mythicus.net/ and https://grapevine.haus/.

This question is asked rather frequently. There are very few truly active aggregation sites any more. The most active, but pretty incomplete site is probably grapevine: https://grapevine.haus/

If you want immersion in a more low-fi text-based setting, maybe head to /r/MUD and look into a MUD that pushes your buttons in terms of settings and mechanics. Try some of the games linked into Grapevine if you're not familiar with MUDs. Lots of nice games to get your feet wet, there, until you find one to call home. Just a warning, MUDs are not immune to suffering from a high number of low-effort games, but it seems easier to find the good ones that it does with PBBGs.

I have three to share, but they tie for the same reasons. Armageddon, Sindome and Star Conquest have pretty cool areas. Armageddon a Mad Max out in the desert type of vibe with people trying to survive with mutants and the like, Sindome is a cyber punk dystopian future where anything is possible and Star Conquest a future space opera with three main factions fighting it out for supremacy. All have people on at basically all times of the day. Armageddon Host name - www.armageddon.org 4050 Sindome Moo.sindome.org 5555 Star Conquest moo.squidsoft.net 7777 All three are heavy into role playing, however. So it will be required. I do believe Sindome and maybe Star Conquest have classes. I mean they have jobs, but I think you can gain abilities not in your skill set. I believe all are PvP and PvE, so it can be stressful if getting attacked I suppose. I am not much into PvP myself though. They may or may not have OOC channels. All three are free to play. Currently Armageddon is MUD of the Month and can be played with the community on Saturdays and Sundays UTC -5 or CDT at 6pm till 12am. You are welcome to join us if you like. Consequently Grapevine is the Mud website of the Month https://grapevine.haus/ This website has 140+ games. It has a great feature with it's stats screen for each game. It gives you how many players have been on the last 48 hours, last week, last month, last year and time of day for busy hours. So that may help you in finding a good MUD as well.

https://grapevine.haus/ is most popular right now