Another one for the #ideaPile that I almost certainly will never see through: a text-based #interactiveFiction engine for #picotron

(A #frotz port would be the obvious thing to do and I'll bet someone has already made one in #lua, but writing my own parser has been a thing I've been interested in since I was a kid so)

Microsoft open sourced Zork I, II and III. So i grabbed a copy of the Zork I source code and used the zilf compiler to successfully create an z3 file which I can feed to frotz. 🤩 🎉 😃

#zork1 #infocom #zilf #interactivefiction #frotz

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source

ok, this is a bit weird i guess, but i'm just going to throw it out there, in case anyone is listening..

just going through some memories, and it has led me to trying to find someone. not for any particular reason, just curiosity i suppose.

who am i looking for? someone on irc in the #amiga channel on the efnet network back in the day (late 80's -> early/mid 90's), that went by the name "frotz".

if that rings a bell -- or even better, YOU are frotz! -- get in touch!

#irc #amiga #efnet #frotz

Jailbroken 2011 4th generation #kindle touch #ereader! It plays nice with #calibre #ebook library management software and natively displays #epub and other formats. It also runs a couple of #interactivefiction interpreters, #gluxe and #frotz, so I can get my #zork on or whatever. Also, custom sleep screen. #browncoats

How-to and helpful folks: https://www.mobileread.com/
eBook library management software: https://calibre-ebook.com/

Zum Vintage Computing Festival Europe #vcfe gibt es ein von Bernd Sedlmair und Hans Franke entwickeltes, deutschsprachiges Textadventure namens "VCFE - Ein Wochenende unter Nerds", das mittels der Zork-Maschine ausgeführt werden kann:

https://www.vcfe.org/D/Spiel.html

Noch nerdiger und epochenkorrekter geht es eigentlich kaum.

#textadventures #zork #frotz #retrocomputing

#tmux
It's how you hide that you're playing #Infocom's #LurkingHorror from your boss... Now, if only I weren't my own boss and thus know all my tricks!

#wordgrinder #ping #powertop #weather #calcurse #ttyclock #htop #watch #free-m #frotz #dosemu #dosemuDumbMode

Dear #Zmachine experts,

why do I get garbled output from DOS frotz V2.54, when I try to run Zork Zero?

Command entered:
C:\ZORK0> frotz -d 2 zork0.zip

The current directory contains this files:
ZORK0.CG1
ZORK0.EG1
ZORK0.MG1
ZORK0.ZIP
ZORKZERO.EXE

The last file is #Infocom's original interpreter.

Thanks in advance!

#zmachine #v6 #infocom #zork #zork0 #frotz