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Windows Frotz Alternatives

Windows Frotz Alternatives

Windows Frotz

Windows Frotz is an interpreter that can play all the old Infocom text adventures. Infocom used a novel approach to write their games: they had a system that produced a data file for the adventure that was the same on every computer, and an interpreter for every computer that could run all the games (It was actually a bit more complicated than that, but that's the basic idea).

During the late 1980s and early 1990s many people worked to decode Infocom's format, producing several interpreters for the format (which is called Z-code, or the Z-Machine, with the Z coming from Zork, Infocom's first game). Windows Frotz is the latest in this line of interpreters. During the early 1990s, Graham Nelson took the next step by writing a compiler for the format, called Inform. The result is that the modern text adventure community have written several hundred games in this format that can be played with this interpreter.

Best Open Source Windows Frotz Alternatives

Looking for the best programs similar to Windows Frotz? We reviewed our top picks below. Let's see if there are any Windows Frotz alternatives that work on your platform.

Text Fiction

Text Fiction

FreeOpen SourceAndroid

An interpreter for interactive fiction stories (aka: terp, z-machine, text adventure engine, interactive book reader).

Lectrote

Lectrote

FreeOpen SourceMacWindowsLinuxElectron / Atom Shell

The Interactive Fiction interpreter in an Electron shell Lectrote currently supports: Glulx games (.ulx or .gblorb), as produced by Inform 7. Z-code games...

Windows Git

Windows Git

FreeOpen SourceWindows

Windows Git is an interpreter for Glulx games. Windows Git consists of a core interpreter called Git, and an input/output library, called Windows Glk. Together these two...

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