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Zoom is a Z-Machine, which means that it plays text adventure games written in ZCode. The original games were written by a company called 'Infocom' in the 80's: these are available on the Infocom Masterpieces CD, published by Activision. Unfortunately, Activision seems to have lost interest in this title - however, there are a few companies that have a stock of this CD (I bought mine from here).

In around 1993, a compiler called Inform was released that allowed ordinary mortals to create their own ZCode adventures. This sparked quite a revival, and there are many games available for download here:

ftp://ftp.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/infocom/

The Mac OS X version supports all the features of the X-Windows version, has a much better user interface, and supports several extra features, such as speech output.

WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.1.4.1:
  • Zoom 1.1.4 had a minor bug that would cause some glk games to receive too many Redraw events. I’ve updated this release to version 1.1.4.1 to fix this.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3 or later.

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SCREENSHOT

Developer:Andrew Hunter
Downloads:1,746
  - Version d/l:94
Games:Adventure
License:Free
Date:02 Jun 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
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    Mar 27 2008

    PUPSPALS  Great program! Does what it says & is easy to figure out. Has in program link to game database for easy download & install of new games.

    If you like text adventures, this is the way to go!  
    (Version 1.1.1)

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    Aug 11 2007

    ZANGIEF  Entertaing, but pretty dang hard! If you're up to the challenge, try out some games. I was just attacked by Chickzilla, a giant alien chicken in Tokyo!  
    (Version 1.1.1)

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