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Frotz.activity lets you play interactive fiction games on your XO laptop. This activity is a wrapper around the Unix port of Frotz, which is an interpreter for Infocom games and other Z-machine games. It includes one game, the classic Adventure. You can download more [[Frotz/Games]]. |
Frotz.activity lets you play interactive fiction games on your XO laptop. This activity is a wrapper around the Unix port of Frotz, which is an interpreter for Infocom games and other Z-machine games. It includes one game, the classic Adventure. You can download more games here: [[Frotz/Games]]. |
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== How to play == |
== How to play == |
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Use the keyboard to type |
Use the keyboard to type commands like "look" and "take key". Most games respond to the word "help" with some instructions. See also: http://www.microheaven.com/IFGuide/ |
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You can usually use "save" and "restore" to avoid losing your progress. Unfortunately the Keep button on the toolbar does *not* save your progress. |
You can usually use "save" and "restore" to avoid losing your progress. Unfortunately the Keep button on the toolbar does *not* save your progress. |
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== How to develop == |
== How to develop == |
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Frotz.activity is free software, licensed under the [[GPL]] so is the actual frotz interpreter. You can find the source code to the wrapper inside the .xo bundle. Source for the interpreter can be found on David Griffith's website: http://frotz.homeunix.org/frotz/ |
Frotz.activity is free software, licensed under the [[GPL]] and so is the actual frotz interpreter. You can find the source code to the wrapper inside the .xo bundle. Source for the interpreter can be found on David Griffith's website: http://frotz.homeunix.org/frotz/ |
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If you are interested in a python z-machine implementation see: http://code.google.com/p/zvm/ |
If you are interested in a python z-machine implementation see: http://code.google.com/p/zvm/ |
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= Release Notes = |
= Release Notes = |
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* v1 |
* v1 |
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First public release. |
First public release. Includes frotz v2.43 |
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= Testing = |
= Testing = |
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= Bugs = |
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* The Keep button doesn't save your progress. |
* The Keep button doesn't save your progress. |
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* The Get More Games button doesn't work. It should open Browse to this page: [[Frotz/Games]] |
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= Feature requests = |
= Feature requests = |
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Revision as of 23:41, 15 March 2008
| Frotz | |
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| Status: | Under development |
| Version: | 1 |
| Base: | No |
| Source: | included in the .xo bundle |
| l10n: | missing |
| Contributors | |
| Josh Minor | |
Frotz
Frotz.activity lets you play interactive fiction games on your XO laptop. This activity is a wrapper around the Unix port of Frotz, which is an interpreter for Infocom games and other Z-machine games. It includes one game, the classic Adventure. You can download more games here: Frotz/Games.
Screenshot
Instructions
How to install
Download this .xo file from the Browse activity: Frotz-1.xo
If you have an older version, you'll need to delete it before you can download the new version. There are instructions here: Activity_Upgrade
How to play
Use the keyboard to type commands like "look" and "take key". Most games respond to the word "help" with some instructions. See also: http://www.microheaven.com/IFGuide/
You can usually use "save" and "restore" to avoid losing your progress. Unfortunately the Keep button on the toolbar does *not* save your progress.
If you download z-machine files from the Internet (most end with .z5) then you can open them from the Journal to make Frotz play them.
How to develop
Frotz.activity is free software, licensed under the GPL and so is the actual frotz interpreter. You can find the source code to the wrapper inside the .xo bundle. Source for the interpreter can be found on David Griffith's website: http://frotz.homeunix.org/frotz/
If you are interested in a python z-machine implementation see: http://code.google.com/p/zvm/
Release Notes
- v1
First public release. Includes frotz v2.43
Testing
v1 has been tested on build 690 under emulation as well as on a G1G1 running 691.
Reviews
See Talk:Frotz
Bugs
- The Keep button doesn't save your progress.
Feature requests
- Ideally this would incorporate Inform, so you could write interactive fiction as well as play it.