[z-machine] The Z-machine and Informs 6 and 7

[Richard Bos]

On 10/19/05, Graham Nelson <graham at gnelson.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> (b) It is time, in my view, to make Blorb more or less compulsory.
> Blorb has long hovered on the margins of the Z-spec, as a
> good idea but one that never seemed urgent because there
> weren't really any blorbs to be executed, and anyway, all the
> interpreter writers had disappeared off into the misty woods.

I see that this has come up before, but I'd like to reiterate that as
a player, I would rather like a default extension for ZCode blorbs
that differs from that for Glulx blorbs. The reason is clear: it is
then possible to double-click on it without having to know in advance
for which machine the file is. It would probably be best to keep .blb
for Glulx, where blorb support is already common, IIRC compulsory, and
use, e.g., .blz for ZCode blorbs.

Richard