ZOOM(1)

NAME
zoom - interpreter for Z-Code interactive fiction games

SYNOPSIS
zoom [OPTION ...] [story-file] [save-file]

DESCRIPTION
Interactive Fiction is a fancy name for 'text adventures', thought up by a company called called 'Infocom' circa 1979.

Zoom is an advanced player for interactive fiction stories written Z-Code format. This is the format used by Infocom in the 1980s for games including Zork and Trinity, as well as new games written using the Inform language. zoom supports all versions of the Z-Machine, including version 6 with graphical resources (converted to Blorb format).

OPTIONS

-D, --debugmode
    Enable source-level debugger (requires gameinfo.dbg).

-w, --warnings
    Display interpreter warnings

-W, --fatal
    Make warnings fatal.

-?, --help
    Give a list of command-line options.

--usage
    Give a short usage message.

-V, --version
    Print program version.

FILES

/usr/share/zoom/games/
    When zoom is called without a story-file argument, it presents a menu of the games found here, if any.

/etc/zoom/zoomrc
    System-wide config file, mostly for setting fonts and colors. Only used if $HOME/.zoomrc doesn't exist.

$HOME/.zoomrc
    Per-user config file. If this file exists, it is used instead of the system config file, above. So for personalizing your settings, you will want to start out by copying /etc/zoom/zoomrc to ~/.zoomrc.

Note that it's a fatal error if zoom can't read either of these config files!

NOTE
If you were expecting to be able to play TADS, HUGO, or Glulx games with zoom, I hate to disappoint you... but the Linux build of zoom only supports Z-Code. The Macintosh (OSX/Cocoa) build does support the other formats, but the support code would be difficult to port to Linux zoom. I incorrectly stated that the other formats were available in a previous version of this man page. Sorry about that.

BUGS
Report bugs to bugs@logicalshift.co.uk.

There's one "bug" with this man page: it's installed in manual section 1. It should be section 6 (games), but there's a zoom(6) man page in the xscreensaver package, and we don't want to conflict with it.

AUTHOR
Zoom was written by Andrew Hunter. See /usr/doc/zoom-@VERSION@/COPYING for license information.

This man page was written by B. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk> for the SlackBuilds.org project. It's licensed under the WTFPL, so do WTF you want with it.

SEE ALSO
zork(6), frotz(6), fizmo(6), inform(6).

Full documentation is installed in /usr/doc/zoom-@VERSION@/manual/index.html