Frotz
| Frotz | |
| Status: | Under development |
| Version: | 1 |
| Base: | No |
| Source: | included in the .xo bundle |
| l10n: | missing |
| Contributors | |
| Josh Minor | |
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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 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 thing 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 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/
Release Notes
- v1
First public release.
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.
- The Get More Games button doesn't work. It should open Browse to this page: Frotz/Games
