#147312 - eyeball226 - Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:15 pm
Does anyone know if there is a DS port of Frotz (the Infocom text adventure interpreter) or failing that, does anyone know where I can get the GBA version? It seems the homepage is down.
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I can't be bothered now...
#147314 - theli - Tue Dec 18, 2007 6:26 pm
#147316 - Sweater Fish Deluxe - Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:41 pm
I tried some of these releases out probably when they were first released, but I found them frustrating because I didn't know what the graffiti input was supposed to be for some letters and there didn't seem to be a backspace command, so the interface was really frustrating.
I guess I should have RTFM or gone to Papfuji's page or just tried pressing some buttons randomly since it looks like the X button brings up a table of the graffiti characters.
Now that I know, I'll have to try some of these out again and see how well they work. Text adventure games on the DS with graffiti input sounds like it would work out really well.
...word is bondage...
#147318 - sonny_jim - Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:03 pm
There's a port of Frotz in DSLinux, which uses an on screen keyboard.
#148812 - theli - Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:09 pm
hm just wanted to try out some IF (haven't really played it yet)
and found out that in DSFrotz i cannot load any if file ... only reompile my own version .... :(
there is glkpogo ... but development of both glkpogo and dsfrotz stopped ... sad :(
and i'm not sure using dslinux for frotz is very convenient :(