So they're now openzork!
this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2025
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I've been wanting to get these running via virtual assistant (Alexa, Google, Siri, etc.). Imagine playing these on a long car ride, via voice!
That plus fine tune a model on the text and and get weird
That would be awesome!
Wow, even released under the "commercial friendly" MIT license.
I look forward to playing an Ai derivative "coming soon".
>be eaten by grue
So, where can we get them?
By following the links in the article
Sorry, didn't realize only an excerpt was posted here. That's on me.
Maybe it's lazy, but I always ask for people to post things in the comments that are in the article, so I don't have to read the article.
Or maybe...it's Maybelline???
Yes that's it :D
I understand if the article is long or convoluted and you just need a short summary but even refusing to click the link and do a quick check is lazy AF and should not be encouraged. Or at least use AI for that.
Holy fuck, I'm not using AI for that shit.
A lot of times people are happy to share stuff in the comments. I do it myself for articles I'm actually interested in reading. It's part of the human connection that makes the internet a interesting place to be, not an AI hellscape.
It’s like going to a store and asking a random person nearby to pick out the item you want, which you are fully capable of reaching yourself, while you keep standing around and do nothing. Great human interaction.
Nice! Would love to see Zork Zero opened as well.
Reminds me of a game my buddy and I made called BIP.
BIP was a crazy computer that went nuts.
Our code was about as sophisticated as this. As in, not. lol
Are there any tablets good for old text adventures games?
There was the Ink Console coming out, but that seemingly died off.
How do you mean? in terms of a keyboard? Or e-ink?
Both, so I will assume I am being unrealistic. :(
Well if you have a lot of money everything's great :D But srs, there's a bunch of them that run out-of-the-box android that would do it. Boox is what I'm thinking of specifically, maybe a used one even - and they have a USB C port you can just plug your favorite clicky keyboard into and baddabing - perfect e-ink Zorkage.
Finally got a chance to look into the Boox and wanted to say thanks for the suggestion!
Currently broke of course, but this looks like it would do everything the Ink Console would of and then some. There's a version of Zork (all) on the Play store as well!
Right on - I thought I saw something about someone jailbreaking a kindle again which might be another avenue if you've got the time and interest. There's also the raspberry-pi-with-an-e-ink-HAT option but it doesn't get bigger than 7 inches afaik. Otherwise, yeah those used prices should come down eventually.