historicalsource/hitchhikersguide resource
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Steve Meretzky and Douglas Adams (Infocom) observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 2698
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 2696
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1091 stars · 139 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A historical archive of the source code for Infocom's 1984 interactive fiction game The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, written in ZIL (Zork Implementation Language). It preserves the development snapshot for education and research, though the code cannot currently be compiled into a playable Z-machine file.
Use cases
- study how Infocom interactive fiction games were written in ZIL
- research historical game development practices at Infocom
- explore the source of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game
- learn the Zork Implementation Language from a real codebase
- preserve and analyze 1980s game source code
- research how interactive fiction parsers processed input
When to choose
- you are researching the history of interactive fiction or Infocom
- you want to read authentic ZIL source code for study
- you are doing historical software preservation or academic work
When to avoid
- you want to play the game rather than study its source
- you need a compilable, buildable codebase
- you want a modern interactive fiction authoring system
Facets
dataset · maturity maintenance
interpreter parser programming-language gaming-tools education programming-languages cross-platform interactive-fiction infocom zil z-machine source-code-archive historical-preservation douglas-adams history
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/historicalsource/hitchhikersguide · fetched 2026-08-28 · 74ad10236442
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| historicalsource/hitchhikersguide | main | 32 |
For agents
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