From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dukecmmtar04.coxmail.com (dukecmmtar04.coxmail.com [68.99.120.47]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A9AC105D2 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:53:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from dukecmimpo02.coxmail.com ([68.99.120.135]) by dukecmmtar04.coxmail.com (InterMail vM.7.05.02.00 201-2174-114-20060621) with ESMTP id <20091120085310.VXSF3089.dukecmmtar04.coxmail.com@dukecmimpo02.coxmail.com> for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:53:10 -0500 Received: from [192.168.0.100] ([70.166.17.50]) by dukecmimpo02.coxmail.com with bizsmtp id 7Lt91d00814oyBJ01Lt9za; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:53:10 -0500 Message-ID: <4B0658F3.9090703@baechler.net> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:53:07 -0800 From: Tony Baechler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090915 Thunderbird/3.0b4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: jzip: an alternative to frotz References: <20091120041657.GA18181@blackbird> In-Reply-To: <20091120041657.GA18181@blackbird> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:53:11 -0000 Hi, Why not use Fizmo? It should also be in the IF Archive or can be found on spellbreaker.org. It's a Debian package which is how I found it, so you can get the source from any Debian mirror. Yes, it does Blorb. I've had good luck with it, but I prefer Frotz. On 11/19/2009 8:16 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: > In my attempts to find an interactive fiction interpreter which works > well with Speakup, I stumbled upon jzip. This is a bit older than frotz > and isn't maintained, but it supports all the modern interactive > fiction standards with the exception of blorb. I thought of cutting my > teeth in C by trying to integrate Andrew Plotkin's Blorblib with it. > The termcap-based interface is compilable if you link with the ncurses > library. It works quite nicely, and doesn't suffer from the frotz > habbit of repeating old text when the screen fills. > It can be found at the IF archive, in /interpreters-infocom-zcode/zip. > The version I have is from 2000, and unfortunately doesn't respect the > unix convention and extract into its own directory. > I'm not sure how many interactive fiction players are on this list, but > I thought I'd pass this along. >