FROTZ V2.41 - An interpreter for all Infocom games and other Z-machine games. Complies with standard 1.0 of Graham Nelson's specification. Originally written by Stefan Jokisch in 1995-1997. Reference code currently maintained by Jim Dunleavy. Ported to Unix by Galen Hazelwood. Unix port currently maintained by David Griffith. - Compiles and runs on most common flavors of Unix, both open source and not. - Plays all Z-code games including V6. - Old-style sound support through OSS driver. - Config files. - Stricter error checking. - Default use of the Quetzal file format. Command line option to use the old format. There are several differences between the old-style save format at Quetzal such that converting from old-style and Quetzal is difficult if not impossible. This also means you can't restore an old-style save and then save your game in Quetzal. - Now distributed under the GNU Public License. The latest information on Unix Frotz is available at the Unix Frotz homepage at http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~dgriffi/frotz/. The latest release of Unix Frotz is available for FTP download at ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/frotz/frotz-.tar.gz or any reliable mirror such as http://www.ifarchive.org. For installation information, see the file "INSTALL". For information on what Interactive Fiction is and how to play it, see the file "HOW_TO_PLAY". For update history, see the file "Changelog". For information on known bugs in Frotz, see the file "BUGS". For bug reports, check the Unix Frotz website to see if there's a new release. If not, send your bug report to me at dgriffi@cs.csubak.edu. ============ Packaging || ============ Please email me if you wish to put Unix Frotz into something like a .deb, .rpm, Slackware package, the NetBSD pkgsrc tree, FreeBSD's ports tree, or anything like that so I can note that on the Unix Frotz webpage at http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~dgriffi. _PLEASE_ don't try to do anything like have auto-install scripts grab files from that page. Use ftp.gmd.de or one of its mirrors for that. ==================== Maintainer switch || ==================== A few months after I submitted my superpatch against Galen Hazelwood's Unix port of Frotz 2.32, I started playing around again with Unix Frotz to start adding new features. I emailed Galen asking if he would be putting out a new release of Unix Frotz any time soon because I had some nifty new features to add. He replied with "no" and asked if I was volunteering to take over the port. ==================== The switch to GPL || ==================== Beginning with version 2.40, Frotz is now licensed under the GNU Public License. This change came about from an email conversation with Stefan Jokisch in late May 2000. I asked if he was still developing the core code and asked if he'd consider changing the license to GPL or BSD-like. He replied by introducing me to Jim Dunleavy to whom he handed off development of the Frotz core code. At that time, he decided to change the license to GPL starting with the one Jim was working on. Jim and I then swapped patches back and forth to do some more work on the core code and so now we have Frotz 2.40.