scott2zil

Tool for creating converting a SA-game dat-file to ZIL that compiles with ZILF.

Scott2Zil is a tool that takes a data-file for a game in the Scott Adams-style genre (games that can be played with for example ScottFree or PerlScott) and repackage it inside a ZIL-shell that can be compiled with ZILF to and independed z5-game.

Thanks to:

• Tara McGrew, the creator of ZILF. (https://foss.heptapod.net/zilf/zilf)
• pdxiv, the creator of PerlScott for inspiration and code that is much more readable than the original basic interpreter by Scott Adams. (https://github.com/pdxiv/PerlScott)
• Mike Taylor, the creator of scottkit. A tool for compile and decompile games in the SA genre. (https://github.com/MikeTaylor/scottkit)
• Jason Compton, the author of Ghost King, the game that led me down this path... (https://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=pv6hkqi34nzn1tdy)

scott2zil is tested with the following games:

• 01 Adventureland
• 02 Pirate Adventure
• 03 Mission Impossible
• 04 Voodoo Castle
• 12 The Golden Voyage
• 14b Buckaroo Banzai
• Ghost King

Manual

• Take the data from the .sao or .dat you created with scottkit or obtained by other means and paste it in the table game-dat. Currently there is adventure 1 - Adventureland, just replace it.
• If you want you can change some of the game constants that controls for example the standard messages and if the gameflow is with split screen or conversational.
• Compile the game with ZILF and play in a Z-machine of your choice (I use Windows Frotz 1.21 myself). There is a make-file with the syntax for ZILF and ZAPF but you probably need to change the paths.

Plase report any issues you find!

You can redistribute and/or modify this file under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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