                               Zoom - A Z-Machine
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by Andrew Hunter

   Zoom is a fast Z-Machine (around 1.5x faster than frotz). It was
   written by me to investigate the effects of specialisation on
   bytecode languages similar to ZCode. It's a bit rough around the
   edges, as most of the interpreter was written in a single weekend.

Installing Zoom
===============

    NOTE: you will need perl and some form of yacc (preferably bison)
    to compile Zoom.

    Zoom comes with a configure script which attempts to create
    Makefiles and headers that are appropriate for your
    system. Compiling it should be just a matter of changing to Zoom's 
    source directory and doing:

      mkdir obj
      cd obj
      ../configure
      make

   Zoom will install in /usr/local by default - if you want to change
   this, use '../configure --prefix=/wherever', where /wherever is where 
   you want it to install. Assuming Zoom compiles with no errors 'make 
   install' will result in the zoom executable being installed in the
   appropriate directory.

   If you run into trouble compiling, try using 'make' again
   (sometimes make seems to get confused because of the files Zoom
   creates while building)
