Infocom Frotz

Infocom Frotz
Interpreter
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Links	Home page Play online
Developer	Dannii Willis
Format	Z-code
Interaction style
System	Browser
System details
Latest version	1 Sep 2024
Status	Stable
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Uses
Multimedia support	Fully supports Z6 multimedia (colour, graphics, sound)
License	GPL2
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Not to be confused with the Frotz interpreter it is based on.

Infocom Frotz is a special-purpose, web-based build of the Frotz Z-machine interpreter, designed to reduce the barrier to playing Infocom's six multimedia Z6 games:

• Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur (play in browser)
• Journey: The Quest Begins (play in browser)
• The Lurking Horror (play in browser)
• Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels (play in browser)
• James Clavell's Shogun (play in browser)
• Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz (play in browser)

Most Z-machine interpreters in use today do not support Z6 and/or the unique graphical system used by these games, which was something of a dead end. Frotz is one of the few that does; so this project uses Emscripten to build the SDL version of Frotz into a web-playable version.

Links

• GitHub page: source code, issue tracker, etc.
• Forum announcement and discussion