jzip: an alternative to frotz

[Tony Baechler]

Hi,

Why not use Fizmo? It should also be in the IF Archive or can be found 
on spellbreaker.org. It's a Debian package which is how I found it, so 
you can get the source from any Debian mirror. Yes, it does Blorb. I've 
had good luck with it, but I prefer Frotz.

On 11/19/2009 8:16 PM, Zachary Kline wrote:
> In my attempts to find an interactive fiction interpreter which works
> well with Speakup, I stumbled upon jzip.  This is a bit older than frotz
> and isn't maintained, but it  supports all the modern interactive
> fiction standards with the exception of blorb.  I thought of cutting my
> teeth in C by trying to integrate Andrew Plotkin's Blorblib with it.
> The termcap-based interface is compilable if you link with the ncurses
> library.  It works quite nicely, and doesn't suffer from the frotz
> habbit of repeating old text when the screen fills.
> It can be found at the IF archive, in /interpreters-infocom-zcode/zip.
> The version I have is from 2000, and unfortunately doesn't respect the
> unix convention and extract into its own directory.
> I'm not sure how many interactive fiction players are on this list, but
> I thought I'd pass this along.
>