Daily Archives: June 26, 2009

Tracking down Circular Dependencies in Static Libraries

Posted on June 26, 2009 by proj

The GNU linker has some trouble when you present it with multiple library archives that depend upon each other. Libraries with symbols resolved in other libraries must be presented earlier on the command line. You can work around this with … Continue reading →

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Overview of the Z-machine

Posted on June 26, 2009 by proj

Here is a good article outlining the Z-machine. This is the machine that runs all of the Infocom text adventures including Zork for which the virtual machine is named. This is some really interesting engineering and you can still see … Continue reading →

Posted in game programming, games, history | 1 Comment