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+<title>Frotz</title>
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+<meta name="description"
+content="Sourceforge homepage of Frotz, a Z-Machine interpreter for playing
+Infocom's interactive fiction games and newer games using the same
+format.">
+<meta name="keywords"
+content="frotz, infocom, inform, interactive fiction, z-machine,
+zcode, game, text adventure, z-machine interpreter, unix, linux">
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+<body>
+<a name="top">
+<h1 align="center"><img src="frotz-1.png" alt="Frotz"></h1>
+<h1 align="center">A Portable Z-Machine Interpreter</h1>
+</a>
+
+<p>
+Frotz is an interpreter for Infocom games and other Z-machine games. It
+complies with
+<a href="http://www.inform-fiction.org/zmachine/index.html">standard 1.0</a>
+of Graham Nelson's specification. It was written by Stefan Jokisch in
+1995-1997. It was ported to Unix by Galen Hazelwood. Currently the Unix
+port is being developed and maintained by David Griffith. The Unix port
+is also the canonical core version upon which all other ports are based.
+
+
+<hr>
+<h2><a name="features">Features</a></h2>
+
+<p>
+<li>Compiles and runs without changes on most common flavors of Unix,
+both open source and not. This includes MacOS X.
+<li><a href="#interp_links">Portable</a> to many other operating systems
+and hardware.
+<li>Plays all Z-code games including V6.
+<li>Sound support through libao.
+<li>V6 support through SDL.
+<li>Config files.
+<li>User-configurable error-checking.
+<li>Optional dumb interface.
+<li>Distributed under the GNU <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html">General Public License, version 2.</a>
+
+<hr>
+<h2><a name="download">Places to get Frotz</a></h2>
+
+<dl>
+<p>
+
+<p>
+<dt>
+<a href="http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXinfocomXinterpretersXfrotz.html">Interactive Fiction Archive</a>
+<dd>
+Various flavors of Frotz can be found at the
+<a href="http://ifarchive.org/">Interactive Fiction Archive</a> or any of
+its mirrors.
+
+<p>
+<dt>
+<a href="https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/frotz">Gitlab</a>
+<dd>
+<a href="https://gitlab.com">Gitlab</a> hosts a <a
+href="https://git-scm.com/">Git</a> repository of the Unix port of
+Frotz, which also includes the <a
+href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS">DOS</a> port. The Unix port
+includes a <a
+href="https://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ncurses.html">curses</a>
+interface, an <a href=http://www.libsdl.org/>SDL</a> interface, and a
+dumb interface that requires absolutely no other libraries besides the
+standard C library.
+
+<p>
+<dt><a href="https://pkgs.org/download/frotz">Your operating system's package repository</a>
+<dd>
+This link shows the Frotz packages for the most commonly-encountered distributions of
+Linux. Frotz is also available in Gentoo's
+<a href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage">Portage</a> and
+<a href="https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/games-engines/frotz">Packages</a> systems.
+For the BSD world, there are
+NetBSD's <a href="http://pkgsrc.se/games/frotz">pkgsrc</a> tree,
+FreeBSD's <a href="https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/games/frotz/">ports</a> tree, and
+OpenBSD's <a href="http://openports.se/games/frotz">ports</a> tree.
+For MacOS (a derivative of FreeBSD), there is a <a
+href="http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/frotz">Fink package</a>.
+
+</dl>
+
+
+<hr>
+<h2><a name="credits">Credits</a></h2>
+<p>
+This program started as a remake of Mark Howell's Zip, but has grown into
+a completely new interpreter with ports for lots of platforms.
+
+<p>
+Thanks goes to Stefan Jokisch for writing Frotz and Galen Hazelwood for
+doing the initial work of porting it to Unix. Thanks also to Jim Dunleavy
+for his optimization to the core Frotz code. Other people to thank
+include those who uploaded patches to Unix Frotz to the IF-Archive and
+getting me interested in the inner-workings of interpreters like Frotz,
+people who posted to Usenet feedback on what I was doing, testers, those
+who donated the use of machines for porting, sent me patches, etc. These
+include, but are not limited to:
+
+<blockquote>
+Torbjorn Anderson, Timo Korvola, Martin Frost, Mihail Milushev, David
+Picton, Chris Sullivan, Leonard Richardson, Stephen Kitt, Paul E Coad,
+Paul Janzen, Brad Town, Jason C Penney, Denis Hirschfeldt, Jacob Nevins,
+Matteo De Luigi, Steven Frank, Thomas Troeger, and others that I've
+forgotten.
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>
+Michael Edmonson (author of Rezrov) and Evin Robertson (author of Nitfol)
+deserve recognition for the ideas that I've borrowed from their
+programs. Al Petrofsky (creator of dumbfrotz) donated much code to allow
+Unix Frotz to semi-support V6 games.
+
+
+<hr>
+<p>
+<i>
+This page was last updated on January 21, 2019
+</i>
+</body>
+</html>
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