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# What is Glulx?

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asked Mar 27 in Authoring by Juhana (246 points)
retagged Mar 27 by Dannii
What is Glulx? How is it different from Z-code?

- glulx
- glossary

commented Mar 27 by Ryan Veeder (290 points)
More powerful than Z-code, but tougher to pronounce.

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answered Mar 28 by Harry Thorn
Glulx is a 32 bit virtual machine, while Z-machine is a 16 bit irtual machine. It has its own set of instructions and its native multimedia (including text output) library is Glk.
In general, you can use both z-machine and glulx-machine to run Inform games, though Glulx would be better for larger games, and specially if they contain multimedia as graphics and sound. Also, spanish authoring system Superglus compiles to Glulx, but not to z-machine.

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