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MAME as in Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator? I can't seem to equate that to Infocom (Zork?) for some reason.

It doesn't. They're just both old

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Does anyone remember the Sierra (?) Apple IIe game "The Black Cauldron"? I'd give my upper left wisdom tooth (as opposed to "my eye tooth") to play that game again.

It's probably on one of the many Apple ][ archive sites and you can download various emulators for it as well.