#zmachine
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #zmachine from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-12 22:50 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-12 22:50 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #zmachine.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-12 22:50 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~20123 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 07:00
Languages: English (37) · German (2) · Portuguese (1)
Avg boosts / post: 3.1
Top of the latest posts
Back to #Infocom #TextAdventure land, or more accurately Graphics adventures. I've been working with Stefan Vogt @8bitgames to support his latest and most ambitious project yet - Arcturus. The idea is that with a single set of image files t
I published a new compiler and programming language for the Infocom Z-machine that is heavily optimised to run on retro computers. The name is Arcturus. It is a modern language that can be considered syntactic sugar, little code will get yo
A paper on how to reuse interpreters to get inform v3/5 games on your Apple II: https://www.kansasfest.org/wp-content/uploads/apple_ii_inform_paper.pdf There's just a slight issue: the linked tool used to interleave v5 story files on floppy
What “zmachine” means
WikipediaThe Z-machine is a virtual machine that was developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank in 1979 and used by Infocom for its text adventure games. Infocom compiled game code to files containing Z-machine instructions and could therefore port its text adventures to a new platform simply by writing a Z-machine implementation for that platform. With the large number of incompatible home computer systems in use at the time, this was an important advantage over using native code or developing a compiler fo
“Z-machine” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#zmachine across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #zmachine straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/zmachine