description: Infocom game interpreter
version: 2.43
date: 20100201-13.39
author: Various (see AUTHORS file)
submitter: Fredrik Wikstrom
email: fredrik/a500 org
url: http://frotz.sourceforge.net/
category: game/adventure
license: GPL
minosversion: 4.1
distribute: yes
fileid: 5323
hend:


FROTZ V2.43 - An interpreter for all Infocom and other Z-machine games.
Complies with standard 1.0 of Graham Nelson's specification.

Originally written by Stefan Jokisch in 1995-1997.
Ported to Unix by Galen Hazelwood.
Reference code and Unix port currently maintained by David Griffith.

- Compiles and runs on most common flavors of Unix, both open source and not.
- Plays all Z-code games including V6.
- Old-style sound support through OSS driver.
- Config files.
- Configurable error checking.
- Default use of the Quetzal file format.  Command line option to use the
  old format.  There are several differences between the old-style save 
  format at Quetzal such that converting from old-style and Quetzal is 
  difficult if not impossible.  This also means you can't restore an 
  old-style save and then save your game in Quetzal.
- Optional speech synthesis and recognition through FLITE and Sphinx.
- Distributed under the GNU Public License.


For information on what Interactive Fiction is and how to play it, see the
file "HOW_TO_PLAY".

For installation information, see the file "INSTALL".

For information on the speech synthesis and recognition capabilities of
Frotz, see the file "SPEECH".

For update history, see the file "Changelog".

For information on known bugs in Frotz, see the file "BUGS".

For bug reports, check the Unix Frotz website to see if there's a new
release.  If not, send your bug report to me at dgriffi()cs.csubak.edu.

For information on porting Frotz to new platforms, see the file "PORTING".

For those who are involved in creating and distributing binary packages
containing Frotz and including Frotz in BSD-style ports/pkgsrc trees,
see the file "PACKAGING".

The latest information on Unix Frotz is available at the Unix Frotz
homepage at http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~dgriffi/proj/frotz/.

The latest release of Unix Frotz is available from the Interactive
Fiction Archive at:
http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/
	frotz/frotz-<version>.tar.gz
and
ftp://ftp.ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/
	frotz/frotz-<version>.tar.gz

The Interactive Fiction Archive has several mirrors which may be better
choices depending on where you live.  Here is a partial list.

http://www.ifarchive.org/				(USA, Pittsburgh, PA)
http://mirror.ifarchive.org/				(USA)
ftp://ftp.ifarchive.com/if-archive/			(USA, Los Angeles, CA)
ftp://ftp.guetech.org/if-archive/			(USA, Bremerton, WA)
ftp://ftp.plover.net/if-archive/			(USA, Chicago, IL)
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/misc/if-archive/			(Finland)
http://www.planetmirror.com/pub/if-archive/		(Australia)
ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/if-archive/		(Australia)


