IF on Andrioid?

Post by s***@gmail.com
Hey there everyone
A newbie to the gerne here. While I grabbed several titles for my PC (like Baron and Lost Pig), I was wondering, is there any way to get the .z8 files to open up/run on Android - anyone heard of an app for that?
I'd love to play mobile.
Thanks in advance
Szhival

Twisty is what you want:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.code.twisty&hl=en

Dannii

2012-11-14 15:40:55 UTC

ZMPP is another option: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.boxofrats.zmpp4droid&hl=en

David Griffith

2012-11-15 03:35:24 UTC

I'm starting to look into porting Frotz to Android.

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rpresser

2012-11-15 19:13:05 UTC

Post by David Griffith
I'm starting to look into porting Frotz to Android.

Looks like it's been tried a few times already:

https://www.google.com/search?q=android%20frotz

John W Kennedy

2012-11-15 21:01:00 UTC

Post by David Griffith
I'm starting to look into porting Frotz to Android.

https://www.google.com/search?q=android%20frotz

Speaking of Frotz, it might be time to approach Apple again about
downloading z-code and glulx games. They seem now to have accepted
downloading pseudo-apps for virtual machines in at least one case.

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throat, he is contemplating both an unchristian act and an act of
treason to the United States."
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Andrew Plotkin

2012-11-15 22:28:32 UTC

Post by David Griffith
I'm starting to look into porting Frotz to Android.

https://www.google.com/search?q=android%20frotz

Speaking of Frotz, it might be time to approach Apple again about
downloading z-code and glulx games. They seem now to have accepted
downloading pseudo-apps for virtual machines in at least one case.

What case?

--Z

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"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."
*

John W Kennedy

2012-11-15 22:50:47 UTC

Post by David Griffith
I'm starting to look into porting Frotz to Android.

https://www.google.com/search?q=android%20frotz

Speaking of Frotz, it might be time to approach Apple again about
downloading z-code and glulx games. They seem now to have accepted
downloading pseudo-apps for virtual machines in at least one case.

What case?

Something rejoicing in the name of YAPP.

Andrew Plotkin

2012-11-16 00:28:22 UTC

Post by David Griffith
I'm starting to look into porting Frotz to Android.

https://www.google.com/search?q=android%20frotz

Speaking of Frotz, it might be time to approach Apple again about
downloading z-code and glulx games. They seem now to have accepted
downloading pseudo-apps for virtual machines in at least one case.

What case?

Something rejoicing in the name of YAPP.

(http://blog.yapp.us/)

It looks, on the surface, like the downloadable app-oids of this thing
are built on HTML/Javascript. If so, it wouldn't be a change in
Apple's policy; they've always accepted that.

--Z

--
"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."
*

Eli the Bearded

2012-11-16 00:59:35 UTC

Post by John W Kennedy
Something rejoicing in the name of YAPP.

(http://blog.yapp.us/)
It looks, on the surface, like the downloadable app-oids of this thing
are built on HTML/Javascript. If so, it wouldn't be a change in
Apple's policy; they've always accepted that.

So port Frotz to Javascript and ...

Elijah
------
and I'll get my hat and go

Jerome West

2012-11-16 19:27:47 UTC

Post by Eli the Bearded

Post by Andrew Plotkin
It looks, on the surface, like the downloadable app-oids of this thing
are built on HTML/Javascript. If so, it wouldn't be a change in
Apple's policy; they've always accepted that.

So port Frotz to Javascript and ...

Or just JSONify the Z-code / Glulx files, and extract them on the device.

Andrew Plotkin

2012-11-16 20:04:35 UTC

Post by Jerome West

Post by Eli the Bearded

So port Frotz to Javascript and ...

An iOS app based on Parchment/Glulx is possible, but I don't think it
would perform very well compared to native Frotz/Glulx. You're welcome
to try it, though.

Post by Jerome West
Or just JSONify the Z-code / Glulx files, and extract them on the device.

That would still be against Apple's policy, as I read it. You're welcome
to try it, though.

--Z

--
"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."
*

Eli the Bearded

2012-11-16 22:50:20 UTC

Post by Jerome West

Post by Eli the Bearded
So port Frotz to Javascript and ...

An iOS app based on Parchment/Glulx is possible, but I don't think it

I was being facetious, and the line below my name (removed in follow up)
was intended to make that clear. Apple's rules on apps rub me the wrong
way and I own no iOS devices.

Post by Jerome West
Or just JSONify the Z-code / Glulx files, and extract them on the device.

That would still be against Apple's policy, as I read it. You're welcome
to try it, though.

Text adventures on a device with no physical keyboard strikes me as a bad
idea. But hey, maybe. I used to play the rogue-like Moria on a Palm Pilot
VIIx (and thus use the stylus to enter vi movement commands...).

Elijah
------
hasn't bought anything from Apple since before the switch to powerPC

John W Kennedy

2012-11-17 04:02:07 UTC

Post by Eli the Bearded
Text adventures on a device with no physical keyboard strikes me as a bad
idea.

Well, a stock Apple Bluetooth keyboard can be used, if it comes to that.

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it was her."
-- "Alias"

Adam Thornton

2012-11-17 00:37:42 UTC