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I've been in an adventure game mood lately, triggered by another post here and yesterday I tracked down and installed a really nice text adventure platform GFrotz.

The program comes in two 'flavors';

Frotz = The original adventure game launcher, you launch it in xterm.
GFrotz = Same as Frotz but with a graphical UI and does not require Xterm.

(The 'benefit' with Frotz is that you can get a 'black background with white text' - but in GFrotz you appear to be limited to white background with black text. Personal preference).

I haben't seen this in the extras repo but you can download it from here: http://www.users.on.net/~cwarrensmith/n770/#gfrotz

So how does it work?

1) Install GFrotz (or Frotz if you are comfortable with running things from xterm)

2) Download one of the MANY free text adventues online. I've downloaded a number of adventure games with a .z5 extension and they run beautifully.

You can play anything from classic Colossal Cave, to Zork - and many NEW amazing text adventures from places like;

- Free Infocom Games, and (my favorite):
- The IF Archives.

Below is just a screen shot of how one game looks like in GFrotz: