Frotz Frotz is an interpreter for Infocom games and other Z-machine games. It complies with of Graham Nelson's specification. It was written by Stefan Jokisch in 1995-1997. It was ported to Unix by Galen Hazelwood. Currently the Unix port is being developed and maintained by David Griffith. The Unix port is also the canonical core version upon which all other ports are based.

This directory contains games in Infocom Z-Machine format. (an archive containing this file and the Windows Frotz interpreter is in games/pc/Vacation. Generic Cd-rom Driver For Windows 95. zip). Frotz free download - Frotz, WinFrotz, Frotz8, and many more programs.

• Compiles and runs without changes on most common flavors of Unix, both open source and not. This includes MacOS X. • to many other operating systems and hardware.

• Plays all Z-code games including V6. • Old-style sound support through OSS driver.

• Config files. • User-configurable error-checking. • Optional dumb interface. • Uses the Quetzal save file format. • Distributed under the GNU • Packages available for all popular distributions of Linux and BSD.

Source code packages are available at and The latest work on Frotz is available at A port of Frotz to Microsoft Windows. A port of Frotz to Apple's iOS. A port of Frotz to Nintendo's Game Boy Advance. An Infocom playing bot for IRC. Frotz for PalmOS machines. The canonical archive for information and specimens of interactive fiction of all kinds.

A web-based forum for discussion of all aspects of Interactive Fiction. The compiler used to create interactive fiction that Frotz can play. Also known as Zarf, he is one of the guys who runs.

He has also contributed quite a bit to the Interactive Fiction community in many other ways. Read about a write-once run-many concept created before Java was a twinkle in Sun's eye. XYZZYnews is an electronic newsletter about interactive fiction. You'll also find plenty of links to other interactive fiction sites. Another 'zine about interactive fiction.