Frotz activity is a wrapper for the classic interactive fiction interpreter Frotz.
Frotz activity is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.
Frotz interprets Z-code story-files, which are usually text adventure games (although a few arcade-style Z-code games have been written).
Examples of such story files include the adventure games published by Infocom, as well as any games produced by compilers to this format, such as Inform.
Frotz is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version. You can obtain the source from: https://davidgriffith.gitlab.io/frotz/
Frotz activity is not part of the Sugar desktop, but can be added. Please refer to;
Frotz activity depends on Python, Sugar Toolkit, GTK+ 3, Pango, Vte and Frotz.
Frotz activity includes one game, the classic Adventure.
Download files with a .z# extension, then open them from the Journal. Frotz activity will start.
Some games for younger kids:
- Mother Loose.z5 an interactive nursery rhyme by Irene Callaci.
- Through the Looking Glass.z5 ] - An adaptation of Alice in Wonderland by Gareth Rees.
- The Underoos that Ate New York.z5 - A silly interactive story by G. Kevin Wilson.
- Winter Wonderland.z5 - A wintertime story by Laura A. Knauth.
Some games with more mature themes:
- Phototopia.z5 (English), Fotopia.z5 (Spanish),
- All Roads.z5,
- Blue Chairs.z5
- Anchorhead.z8
- Christminster.z5
Frotz activity will try to install Frotz if it is not yet installed. Or you can install by hand;
- Update the package index,
- On Ubuntu/Debian systems, run
sudo apt update - On Fedora systems, run
sudo dnf update
- On Ubuntu/Debian systems, run
- Install
frotz,- On Ubuntu/Debian systems, run
sudo apt install frotz - On Fedora systems, run
sudo dnf install frotz
- On Ubuntu/Debian systems, run