Comments on: iPhone Frotz

By: sean

sean — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:44:17 +0000

Wiley, nice! Last summer, I sent spathiwa this mockup screen I made, too:

http://se4n.org/img/frotz1.png

It probably verges a bit too much on copyright infringement, however, but I dig it. :-)

I’ll take a look at your game soon… Thanks for sharing it!

By: Wiley

Wiley — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:23:54 +0000

Hey, spathiwa, if you keep getting grief for your splash screen you can use this-

http://wileywiggins.com/frotz.png

There’s not enough of my game to test, unfortunately- it depended on a phone object that rings and forces you to run through some conversations, but I didn’t figure out a very elegant way to do it. What I’ve got is here: http://rewrit.es/zjU

By: sean

sean — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:27:13 +0000

Cool, glad you figured it out. Hey, if you ever need a tester for your IF game, give me a holler. I’d be happy to give it a look.

By: Wiley

Wiley — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:57:08 +0000

Doh, I can see that I skipped a comment above that showed how to do this.. oops.

By: Wiley

Wiley — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:56:17 +0000

This is great, but I was admittedly dissapointed when I clicked through to the IFDB and saw that A Mind Forever Voyaging wasn’t available for download. Anybody know another way to get that onto the phone in a manner that Frotz will read? I was also hoping to take a look at my own unfinished inform 7 game.

By: sean

sean — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:50:40 +0000

Have you used Zoom or Spatterlight for Mac OS X? Both are excellent interpreters, IMHO.

By: TM

TM — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:44:14 +0000

I really wish Frotz Iphone would be carried over to Mac OS X – simply because the presentation seems more satisfying than using the terminal in Mac OS X versions of Frotz I have seen.

By: sean

sean — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:36:04 +0000

Haha, sorry! No offense intended, maybe I just don’t like purple. I had fun mocking up a new picture today, maybe I’ll mail it to you now. :-)

Thanks for the advice on how to get the Infocom games up to my iPhone! And thanks for working on this!

By: spathiwa

spathiwa — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:26:49 +0000

Hey, I spent hours on that splash screen! I think it’s pretty good for ‘programmer art’. The text is a transcript from Spellbreaker, and the font for FROTZ is a font from the Encylopedia Frobozzica in Return to Zork.

By the way, to get Infocom data files on your phone and accessible by Frotz, you need to either:
1) Buy File Magnet (Mac only), and use it to transfer the .z# or .dat file to your phone, or
2) put the files on a local web server and use the IFDB Browser in Frotz to go to the page and download the file.