In this app, you can read and interact with classic and modern text adventure games by typing commands and exploring storylines. Includes support for Z-Machine, Glulx, and TADS formats, as well as a library of hundreds of titles.
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About Frotz
Burned out on all the new-fangled graphics and dazzling eye candy on your shiny new iPhone or iPad? Nostalgic for a simpler time? Then take advantage of those crisp high-resolution fonts to relive the glory days of the Great Underground Empire, or play any of hundreds of great works from the Interactive Fiction archive.
Frotz lets you play hundreds of free works of Interactive Fiction (a.k.a. text adventure games) on your iPhone or iPad.
Frotz plays titles written in the Z-Machine format (which was invented by Infocom and was used to produce classic text adventures from the 80s such as the Zork Trilogy, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Trinity), as well as glulx and TADS formats.
In the past couple of decades, text adventures have experienced a renaissance of sorts due to the efforts of a diverse Internet community of talented interactive fiction writers and fans. Many of these games are written using the same engine that powered Infocom's titles, thanks to the Inform compiler and authoring system created by Graham Nelson.
NOTE! If you have suggestions for improving Frotz or encounter bugs, please go to the support link and report them.
Frotz for iOS - Interactive Fiction at Your Fingertips
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Reviews for Frotz
Mike Du1
Love interactive fiction
I’d give this a perfect rating but I agree with some of the comments that an upgrade is needed. Frames for a map, inventory, possible stats. It would be nice if you could generate your own Eldrum or Beyond Zork, not full on graphics but some nice frame images to pull you in. Maybe allow for the addition of background music or sounds. Something to enhance your mind’s eye without distracting from it.
AppleSeedSalsa
What an unexpected gem !
This wonderful app is like a time capsule into the past 1980s when one's imagination played the role of graphics and even today imagination surpasses anything out there.
