Quetzal
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| Quetzal | |
|---|---|
| Author | Martin Frost |
| Formally specified | Yes |
| Version | 1.4 |
| Date | 1997-11-03 |
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Quetzal stands for Quetzal Unifies Efficiently The Z-Machine Archive Language. Quetzal is also called the Z-machine Common Save-File Format Standard. It specifies how Z-machine interpreters should create a save-file. (Before the Quetzal standard, different interpreters used different save file formats, and couldn't load each other's.)
The Quetzal standard was created by Martin Frost, circa 1997.
Glulx (circa 1999) also re-uses the Quetzal format; the Glulx spec describes how the format is adapted to the Glulx virtual machine.
Links
- Download savefile_14.txt from the IF Archive - Version 1.4 of the Quetzal standard, 03-Nov-1997. (Or in HTML.)
- Quetzal home page (archive).
- A later Quetzal home page (dead link 🔍). This was announced on the Z-Machine mailing list 13-Aug-1998, along with a version 1.5 of the specification, adding various backward-compatible changes, such as a new SNam chunk.