Frotz for N900 (nfrotz)
 

Hello all,

Just to let everyone know that a Maemo 5 port of Frotz (aka nfrotz) is on the way.

With a little bit of luck, I'll get an early alpha .deb out today.

If playing Hitchhiker's and Zork on your N900 appeals to you, please post below!

Thanks,

Robert

Re: Frotz for N900 (nfrotz)
 

That is absolutely fantastic.

Bring it on. Sooner we get it sooner we test it!

I am a software developer and just want to know how you are finding the task of porting this to Maemo. E.g. "optfying" and how much you have had to tweek the source code for it to run.

Re: Frotz for N900 (nfrotz)
 

This makes me very happy. Thanks!

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Well, i'm not a fan of text adventure games, but moar softwarez fur teh meamo is always gud!

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Must find my lost Lost Treasures of Infocom CD one of these days.

Re: Frotz for N900 (nfrotz)
 

Awesome! I will certainly be using this.

Re: Frotz for N900 (nfrotz)
 

Yes This! Please and Thanks!

Re: Frotz for N900 (nfrotz)
 

If playing Hitchhiker's and Zork on my N800 appeals to me, can I still post below? :)

Congrats on your first build!

Any screen shots for it?

Re: Frotz for N900 (nfrotz)
 

anyone know how i can do a screen grab?

Re: Frotz for N900 (nfrotz)
 

Ctrl + Shift + P

Re: Frotz for N900 (nfrotz)
 

Here you go.

Things I need to do: trap errors, add a menu bar for loading and saving of games, and build a deb package (including icons, etc.).
The first two should be pretty easy, the third will be boring and take ages.

Re: Frotz for N900 (nfrotz)
 

It's not sexy but it I love it! :D

Re: Frotz for N900 (nfrotz)
 

I fear I'm a real Infocom freak...because when reading your "Things I need to do: trap errors," quote, I understood "Things I need to do: trap doors"... probably after reading FROTZ and INFOCOM my mind immediately switched to text adventure mode :D

I will volunteer to help with packaging, desktop integration and icon design, got a lot of experience using py2deb for mClock and moodlight.

Re: Frotz for N900 (nfrotz)
 

Looks good rcs1000. Looking at that screenshot, can you add a text zoom feature if you haven't done so already?

Re: Frotz for N900 (nfrotz)
 

It appeals greatly, though not as much as the ability to play more modern games from the IF Archive appeals.

I managed to compile gfrotz for N900. It's far from Hildonised but it works.

In the screenshot I see a text entry box at the bottom. Does this mean that lines are passed to the interpreter instead of key presses? If so that would make in game menus and the like hard to use. Also, will this handle character graphics stuff like the jigsaw in Jigsaw? Gfrotz fails on that.

Excellent work though. A nice interactive fiction interpreter is something I've been wanting on a phone for years. Nothing's come close to Frotz on my Psion 5 yet.

Re: Frotz for N900 (nfrotz)
 

Yes! Please release this before Christmas...... It will save me from having to socialise witth the relatives..... :-)

Re: Frotz for N900 (nfrotz)
 

Hey Guys,

Sorry about the delay. I'm nearly, nearly there, just struggling to find the time. My two year old daughter fails to understand the importance of development time...

Let me see what I can get going today...

Cheers,

Robert

ps, I was going to solve the line versus character issue by allowing you to toggle input modes in the menu, although that's not finished just yet! The advantage about the box is that you can see your previous entries and repeat them as necessary... or you could if I'd finished the code...

Re: Frotz for N900 (nfrotz)
 

When you say provide a deb, that would hopefully be through extras-*? :)

Re: Frotz for N900 (nfrotz)
 

The commandline Frotz allows command recall using up/down cursor keys and still works with menus when they're invoked. Presumably it can tell when the switch happens (set_window opcode?) and behave accordingly.

I look forward to testing this with my extensive zcode library. :)

PS If you need packaging help, I know debian packaging.

Re: Frotz for N900 (nfrotz)
 

http://pupnik.de/frotz_2.43-1_armel.deb
41980 Mar 25 2008 frotz_2.43-1_armel.deb

it's not as if you couldn't play frotz the entire time. but please get it into extras, thanks

Re: Frotz for N900 (nfrotz)
 

I can't get frotz to run after installing from the deb - it just complains that it won't run as root. Lookng forward to this n900 specific release..... :-)

Re: Frotz for N900 (nfrotz)
 

OK, as soon as I post I realise I'm being silly - still it is a bit of a puss about to get it all working :-)

Re: Frotz for N900 (nfrotz)
 

cant wait for this to get into extras-** (not to confidant in the old .deb installation), but I have managed to get Zork 1, 2, 3 working in DOSbox so that will tide me over :)

Keep up the good work!

Re: Frotz for N900 (nfrotz)
 

thought I'd ask for help here, its probably really easy :)

I have installed the frontz .deb given by ArnimS and can run my .z3 files through xterminal perfectly.

In xterminal i just need to run and all is well.

What i would like to do is create a .desktop file that i can place on the desktop to run the game directly.

So far I have tried a few things (im just guessing/reasoning) and i thought it would look something like this

When I tap this icon a new window opens with the tile Zork I, it is all black except for the titlebar, and it just closes/crashes.

Any ideas?

Re: Frotz for N900 (nfrotz)
 

Any news on this? Just got my N900 today, and have a sudden craving to play some text adventures on it!

Re: Frotz for N900 (nfrotz)
 

Having just stumbled on this, I'm checking to see if there is an update.