Listening to This Week in Retro, in relation to the Zork source code being officially open source -sanctioned my Microsoft, it was mentioned there’s an improved fan version of Planetfall around.
I wonder if it’s this or if there’s more: https://github.com/Kweepa/Planetfall-Modern
The Interactive Fiction Wiki mentions it removes hunger and some “unfair deaths”: https://www.ifwiki.org/Planetfall
Which sounds all right to me, I think the hunger mechanic just triggers a replay of the game when you run out, which is not the most exciting thing. I’m kind of fine with the idea of replaying from the start, as long as you know (and remember!) what to do you can be a lot more efficient, but I can understand why this would be too tedious for many players.
I was kind of hoping for an automap which I think this version doesn’t provide, but I guess that’s quite a big ask. (I haven’t finished the game still!)
