frotz

An interpreter for all Infocom and other Z-machine games

Frotz is an interpreter for Infocom games and other Z-machine games. It complies with the Z-Machine Standard version 1.1. 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. - Compiles and runs without changes on most common flavors of Unix, both open source and not. This includes macOS. - Portable to many other operating systems and hardware. - Curses, Dumb, and SDL user interfaces. - Plays all Z-code games including V6. - Sound support through libao. - Graphics support through SDL and X11 (Xaw). - Config files. - User-configurable error-checking. - Distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or any later version.