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Frotz (included games)

Description

Named after a Zorkian spell to render something luminous (in turn derived from MIT hacker jargon), Frotz has long been the de facto standard Z-machine interpreter -- the Z-machine being the "Zork" virtual machine devised by the brains at Infocom to allow their games' data structures to be used on a plethora of different hardware platforms without requiring slow and costly ports of every game to every platform.

Three decades later and the latest conversion of this technology is to a portable machine that doesn't even have a keyboard! Not only is the iPhone's Frotz capable of running most any (non-graphical) Z-machine game, by Infocom or amateur alike, but it also comes bundled with two dozen top-ranked Z-machine games, including:

• 9:05
• The Act of Misdirection
• An Act of Murder
• All Roads
• Anchorhead
• Balances
• Being Andrew Plotkin
• Bronze
• A Change In The Weather
• Child's Play
• Christminster
• Curses!
• Dreamhold
• For A Change
• Heroes
• Jigsaw
• Lost Pig
• The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet
• Photopia
• Slouching Toward Bedlam
• Spider And Web
• Varicella
• Vespers
• The Weapon
• and Zork (M.I.T. version)

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• Application Software / Operating Systems containing games
• Z-Code

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