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Douglas Adams
British science fiction writer and humorist (1952–2001)

Infocom
Infocom, Inc. was an American software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that produced numerous works of interactive fiction. They also produced a business application, a relational database called Cornerstone.
Brian Moriarty
American video game developer

Bob Bates
American computer games designer

Z-machine
The Z-machine is a virtual machine that was developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank in 1979 and used by Infocom for its text adventure games. Infocom compiled game code to files containing Z-machine instructions (called story files or Z-code files) and could therefore port its text adventures to a new platform simply by writing a Z-machine implementation for that platform. With the large number of incompatible home computer systems in use at the time, this was an important advantage over using native code or developing a compiler for each system.
Steve Meretzky
American video game developer (born 1957)
Legend Entertainment
American video game developer
Amy Briggs
American computer game designer

GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary
2010 Documentary film by Jason Scott