SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives Learn more →
Parchment Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to parchment
-
-
SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
RPI-Engine
A freely available text-based RPG server derived from an older version of the Shadows of Isildur source code.
-
extensions
Inform 7 extensions -- some may be ready for public use, others may be barely working experiments. Enjoy! (by i7)
-
-
jquery.terminal
jQuery Terminal Emulator - JavaScript library for creating web-based terminals with custom commands
-
-
-
-
wadzilla
"It Runs Doom." "Zork?" "Yes." Wadzilla converts Doom WAD files into ZIL text format suitable for compilation to an Infocom-style game, because Doom on Everything.
-
NOTE:
The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better parchment alternative or higher similarity.
parchment discussion
parchment reviews and mentions
Posts with mentions or reviews of parchment.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-10-28.
- Ask HN: What's your favorite text-based adventure game?
-
Show HN: Play Doom in Zork
+1 to what vijayr02 said: you really need at least screenshots, and ideally just post the .z5 file with a link to iplayif so people can play it directly and see what you're talking about. Like this:
https://iplayif.com/?story=https://quuxplusone.github.io/Advent/advent.z8 -
Ask HN: Great text based games to play?
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...
-
These days is there any way to play old Infocom games on an iPhone?
Paste any of those URLs into https://iplayif.com for a modern web interpreter.
- Ask HN: What game you wished existed?
-
The quest 2 needs a better browser!
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...
- Inform 7 v10.1.0 is now open-source
-
Zork: The Great Inner Workings. Exploring the source code and game
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
-
Issues with releasing
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.
-
A note from our sponsor - SaaSHub
www.saashub.com | 6 Jun 2026
Stats
Basic parchment repo stats
11
482
3.5
14 days ago
curiousdannii/parchment is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of parchment is TypeScript.
Sponsored
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
www.saashub.com