File: frotz-2.3.2-r4.zip Author: Stefan Jokisch Uploader: Stephen van Egmond (svanegmond@home.com) Release: 2.3.2 Compatibility: PPC R3, R4. Intel R4. Intel R3 port was done by Victor Tsou, and is in a different file. Description: Play text adventures on the BeOS. Notes: Frotz is a z-machine interpreter. It is a simple virtual machine invented by Infocom, Inc. in 1978 to allow cross-platform adventure games. The form thrives today in the interactive fiction newsgroups rec.games.int-fiction and rec.arts.int-fiction. Games to play with frotz can be found at the interactive fiction archive, which is at ftp://ftp.gmd.de/ . A web-accessible version can be found at http://bang.ml.org/if-archive/ . There is also a compiler for z-machine games available, called Inform. .