[z-machine] Ztools license, Z-machine tests

[Dave]

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Amir Karger wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> For those not listening on raif, I'm working on a project to port the
> Z-machine to Parrot (the new Perl 6 etc. engine).
> 
> First, can anyone confirm that Ztools is public domain? It's got no
> LICENSE or COPYING file or license info in the .c files.
> 
> Second, does anyone have any Z-machine regression tests lying around?
> I've gotten TerpEture, which tests the really hard stuff, and the
> Nitfol tests, which tests a bunch of easy stuff, but I could use more.
> (And my goal, you see, is to do the whole project without actually
> writing any code, if possible.)
> 
> Any other porting advice would be appreciated.

I wrote a program that simulates a classic museum exhibit that
demonstrates bellcurve of random distribution (drop ping pong balls
through a grid of pins). You can find it in the Unix Frotz tarball.

It sounds like it would be a good idea to put together an updated
z-machine test suite.

-- 
David Griffith
dgriffi@cs.csubak.edu