grotz A Z-code interactive fiction interpreter for GTK
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grotz is a GTK port of Frotz, which is the classic Z-code game engine. grotz, like Frotz, is intended for playing 'interactive fiction' games compiled for the Inform Z-machine platform. Although the Z-machine is, in a sense, an archaic and defunct platform, many games and stories were developed for it, and more continue to be written. grotz makes a reasonable job of playing most of the original Infocom games — Zork, Arthur, Lurking Horror, etc — including (to some extent) graphics and sound. The world of interactive fiction has moved on since the Infocom days, but these old games still exercise a Z-code interpreter thoroughly — more so than modern developments which rely less on the Z-machine to provide the complete user interface.grotz is intended to support Linux and Windows using exactly the same code and build files. It is written entirely in C, and uses a single-Makefile build system which is very simple, and could probably be adapted to compile for other platforms on which GTK runs. The primary platform is Linux — there are already good Z-code interpreters for Windows. It's always struck me as anomalous that there are few stable, feature-rich Z-code platforms designed for modern Linux desktops. Of course, there is Gargoyle — but Gargoyle's focus seems to be on typography rather than comprehensive, specific Z-machine support.grotz is far from being a finished product, but at present it seems to be basically functional. Bug reports, etc., are welcome; bug fixes even more so.Product's homepage

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