Episode 40 - OPEN MAILBOX May 2026

Episode 40 - OPEN MAILBOX May 2026

There's news out there in classic text adventures and neo-retro interactive fiction, and it's past time The Retro Adventurers got serious about delivering it! So, welcome to the first installment of a new monthly feature, OPEN MAILBOX -- where you GET NEWS AND LISTEN TO IT.

This episode compiled and presented by Retro Adventurers Nick and Jason covers multiple new Infocom/Z-Machine interpreters, Andrew Plotkin's Visible Zorker developments, an amazingly layered Cornerstone prank-that's-also-real, and other novel developments.

Zym II and Inform 6 Optimization:

https://intfiction.org/t/zym-ii-an-8-bit-z-machine-interpreter-for-symbos/79520

https://intfiction.org/t/accelerating-inform-6-games-on-8-bit-interpreters/79531

https://github.com/fredrikr/krebf

Visible Zorker - Deadline hijinx:

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/03/visible-zorker-march

https://www.patreon.com/VisibleZorker

New Features for Old Hardware:

https://intfiction.org/t/statusline-options/79162

https://github.com/johanberntsson/ozmoo/releases

Retro Adventurers on Discord:

https://discord.gg/8jrbVptACc

Springtime in the PunyInform Century:

https://discord.com/channels/830344544679493644/830344937252978718/1491913229721665840

https://www.springthing.net/2026/

Zabbrev:

https://intfiction.org/t/zabbrev-has-been-ported-from-c-to-c/75176/24

https://jxself.org/git?p=zabbrev.git;a=summary

The Linchpin to Infocom’s Database Strategy?:

https://intfiction.org/t/cornerstones-vm-was-cornerstone-for-atari/79644

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/04/cornerstone-and-the-mu-machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgz5GIbKx3Y

https://zilf.io/

Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation (IFTF) Grants:

https://blog.iftechfoundation.org/2026-04-08-announcing-the-2026-iftf-grant-recipients.html

Keep Circulating the Tapes:

https://ifdb.org

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