frotz & zork & other text adventures
 

Hi,

I just had a stab at installing scratchbox and packaging frotz (http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~dgriffi/proj/frotz/) (which is the definitive unix interactive fiction interpreter).

I *cough* failed to produce a proper package, but just running make produced an executable, "frotz", that runs just fine, and I've used it to play zork I, zork II and I have downloaded but not played zork III.

The zorks are freely downloadable from the unofficial Infocom home page (http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/) - choose the dos zip version, and pull out the large .dat file from it.

I'll chase getting a proper package done, but if anybody desparately wants to play zork, or any of the other adventures, on the Nokia 770, then let me know.

I'm without PC for a week or so now, floors being sanded, but I have 770.

Actually very nice playing text adventures on 770, the on screen keyboard learns the things you want to type pretty quickly.

+ once I've got to grips with what is the real problem, my lack of experience in converting to debian, I can then probably do a load of builds of other stuff that will just recompile without modification.

Take care,

Martin J

Doh! I just posted a question asking if anyone was working on this port. So what is the stutus? I was thinking once I get caught up on some work, I might try and make this happen.

Hi,

The floor people still have not finished, so my pc is still in the cupboard. Therefore I have not done anything.

Wednesday night is when my wife goes out for the evening, leaving me on my own; so I'll pull out the pc and have another stab at creating the deb.

I had an email chat with Hans, the official maintaner of the debian build of frotz, and he told me what I needed to know I think.

If you know more than me about porting stuff, which is pretty easy as this is the first time I've (a) done any debian packaging (b) done any linux development and (c) done anything like this at all, then feel free.

All that needs to be done is packaging frotz for maemo. That's it.

In the meantime if you wanted the exe to just play the zorks etc. then I can email you that.

I did the repackage. All I need is space to put it!

Happy to email to anyone who wants it.

mlvj

Get in touch with Reggie if he doesn't find you. He runs the board and has been happy in the past to offer hosting for ports and projects that have no other home.

Mike

Re: frotz & zork & other text adventures
 

Well i checked gfrotz out and it's nice

*edit* some are complaining about hard-to-read text in gfrotz. Gfrotz doesn't currently allow changing font size, so it can be hard to read. If this is important to you, the maintainer can be contacted at cwarrensmith at the mailweb address of the go0gle. Homepage here:

http://www.users.on.net/~cwarrensmith/n770/#gfrotz

The frptz curses version can be easier to read since you can use +/- keys to change font size. I couldn't connect to mlvj's page so I put it up on my site.

http://pupnik.de/frotz.html

Anyway it works with it2006 and 2007. just use dpkg -i ... to install on bora/2007he.

Re: frotz & zork & other text adventures
 

Anyone have the binaries for gfrotz handy ? The links on

http://www.users.on.net/~cwarrensmith/n770/#gfrotz

Point to 'tapwrite'

Cheers,
Raj.

Re: frotz & zork & other text adventures
 

[QUOTE=phigmov;69094]Anyone have the binaries for gfrotz handy ? The links on

http://www.users.on.net/~cwarrensmith/n770/#gfrotz

Incorrect, they download gfrotz.

Re: frotz & zork & other text adventures
 

Strange. When you click it, the page you get directed to says something like "Thank you for downloading TapWrite", so it looks confusing; but when I clicked save (Not on my 770, so I can't test it), it says the file is the gfrotz deb file.

I'll try it when I get some WiFi.

desiv

Re: frotz & zork & other text adventures
 

hi due to a popular request, I've compiled and repackaged with very minor amendment frotz, not gfrotz.

https://garage.maemo.org/frs/downloa...43-1_armel.deb

I did not create a shortcut or anything

run by starting xterm, /usr/games/frotz

please have a test and let me know.

I have NOT tested it properly due to a shortness of time - I've only done the package because I've been asked to :)

I have a few days working in London, making long train journeys, so I could find some time to fix things shortly.

hmmm maybe I'll find the zorks and load them up

anyway feedback always useful