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From: svanegmo@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Stephen van Egmond)
Subject: Re: how do you play Inform games?
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The .z3 or .z5 is the output of the Inform compiler.  The Inform compiler 
converts .inf files (source code) to the .z? files (object code, sorta)

To play them, you need and Z-code interpreter.  The preferred one is 
ZIP.  Look in if-archive/infocom/interpreters

