Encyclopedia Frobozzica

Origins and Content of the Encyclopedia

Nino Ruffini, compiler of the Encyclopedia Frobozzica (966 GUE edition), merged the encyclopedia entries from Sorcerer and Zork Zero with text from some of the other Infocom games' box contents and a few of his own entries. The original version of the Encyclopedia was circulated around Delphi and the rest of the Internet until Activision came across it and asked Ruffini for permission to use it in Return to Zork so they wouldn't have to recompile everything themselves.

This explains why the Encyclopedia does not contain information from Return to Zork itself, nor information from the other later Zork games (Zork: Nemesis, Zork Grand Inquisitor, and Zork: The Undiscovered Underground).

Editions

• On the Web:
  • Encyclopedia Frobozzica - Web Version 2.0, the "Abridged forth edition 1072-1074 GUE" edition of the Encyclopedia, with many updates by Sheldon Sprague including events from Nemesis and Zork Grand Inquisitor. This edition was derived from a web pull of John Holder's Web Version 1.0, without providing credit for the original link creation throughout the files.
  • Encyclopedia Frobozzica - Web Version 1.0 by John Holder. The second edition of the Encyclopedia Frobozzica by Nino Ruffini (966 GUE).
• As a Zcode file:
  • Frobozzi.z5 ported to the Inform format by Digby McWiggle (really, John Kean )
• As a PDF file:
  • Encyclopedia Frobozzica - PDF Version 1.0 by John Holder. The second edition of the Encyclopedia Frobozzica by Nino Ruffini (966 GUE).
• Original text file:
  • frobozzica.txt - Encyclopaedia Frobozzica, revised final abridged edition, edited by Nino Ruffini