| Frotz | ||
|---|---|---|
| Engine developer | David Griffith, dreammaster | |
| Companies that used it | Infocom and others | |
| Games that use it | innumerable games | |
| Date added to ScummVM | 2018-12-09 | |
| First release containing it | None | |
About
Frotz is the most popular Z-machine implementation, developed by Stefan Jokisch to play games adhering to the different Z-machine versions of text-based games, first introduced for the Zork series and following games by Infocom, then later Graham Nelson's Inform that became the de facto standard for interactive fiction.
Games
Infocom games:
- Zork I: The Great Underground Empire (1980)
- Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz (1981)
- Zork III: The Dungeon Master (1982)
- Deadline (1982)
- Starcross (1982)
- Suspended: A Cryogenic Nightmare (1983)
- The Witness (1983)
- Infidel (1983)
- Planetfall (1983)
- Enchanter (1983)
- Sorcerer (1984)
- Seastalker (1984)
- Cutthroats (1984)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984)
- Suspect (1984)
- A Mind Forever Voyaging (1985)
- Wishbringer: The Magick Stone of Dreams (1985)
- Spellbreaker (1985)
- Ballyhoo (1986)
- Hollywood Hijinx (1986)
- Leather Goddesses of Phobos (1986)
- Moonmist (1986)
- Trinity (1986)
- Border Zone (1987)
- Bureaucracy (1987)
- The Lurking Horror (1987)
- Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It (1987)
- Plundered Hearts (1987)
- Stationfall (1987)
- Beyond Zork (1987)
- Zork Zero (1988)
- Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels (1988)
- Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur (1989)
- James Clavell's Shōgun (1989)
- Journey: The Quest Begins (1989)
- Zork: The Undiscovered Underground (1997) (developed by Activision)
Converted from Alan2:
- Dinnertime (1999)
- Mazemapper (1999)
- The Mean Story (1999)
- To Get to the Other Side (1999)
- They're After You! (1999)
Converted from ScottFree - Adventure International games:
- Adventureland (1978)
- Pirate Adventure, a.k.a. Pirate Cove (1979)
- Mission: Impossible, a.k.a. Impossible Mission, a.k.a. Secret Mission (1979)
- Voodoo Castle (1979)
- The Count (1979)
- Strange Odyssey (1979)
- Mystery Fun House (1979)
- Pyramid of Doom (1979)
- Ghost Town (1980)
- Savage Island, Part I and II (1981)
- The Golden Voyage (1981)
- Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle (1982)
- Return to Pirate's Isle (1983)
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
- Questprobe: Featuring the Hulk a.k.a Marvel Adventure #1 (1984)
- Questprobe: Featuring Spider-Man (1984)
- Questprobe: Featuring the Human Torch and the Thing (1985)
Converted from ScottFree - Mysterious Adventures series:
- Mysterious Adventures 1: The Golden Baton (1981)
- Mysterious Adventures 2: The Time Machine (1981)
- Mysterious Adventures 3: Arrow of Death Part 1 (1981)
- Mysterious Adventures 4: Arrow of Death Part 2 (1982)
- Mysterious Adventures 5: Escape from Pulsar 7 (1982)
- Mysterious Adventures 6: Circus (1982)
- Mysterious Adventures 7: Feasibility Experiment (1982)
- Mysterious Adventures 8: The Wizard of Akyrz (1983)
- Mysterious Adventures 9: Perseus and Andromeda (1983)
- Mysterious Adventures 10: Ten Little Indians (1983)
- Mysterious Adventures 11: Waxworks (1983)
Converted from Miscellaneous architectures:
- Super Star Trek (1971-1974) (converted from BASIC to C to Inform)
- Colossal Cave Adventure (I: 1975-1977, II: 1978-1981, 2.5: 1995, 3: 1978, 4: 1995, 5: 1978, 6: 1984, 370: 1993) (converted from Fortran/C to Inform)
- Zork (1978) (the original release by the team that would become Infocom at MIT, converted to Inform) (converted from Fortran to Inform)
- Frankenstein Adventure (1981) (converted from TRS-80 to Inform)
- Werner's Quest 1: The Black Ladder (1985) (converted from The Quill Adventure System to Inform)
- Werner's Quest 2: Revenge of the Thing-Fish (1985) (converted from The Quill Adventure System to Inform)
- Werner's Quest 3: Rance the Dungeonkeeper (1985) (converted from The Quill Adventure System to Inform)
- Werner's Quest 4: Unchanter (1985) (converted from The Quill Adventure System to Inform)
- The Nine Dancers (1986) (converted from BBC to Inform)
- The Puppet-Man (1987) (converted from BBC to Inform)
- Paranoia (1987) (converted from C to Inform)
- Snafufun (1988) (converted from BASIC to Inform)
- Night of the Vampire Bunnies (1989) (converted from BASIC to Inform)
- Odieus' Quest for the Magic Flingshot (1993) (converted from LADS (Levy's Adventure Development System) to AGT (Adventure Game Toolkit) to Inform)
- Freefall (1995) (Inform version of the 1984 game Tetris)
- Robot Finds Kitten (1997) (converted from C to Inform)
- Reverzi (1999) (Inform version of the board game Reversi, also known as Othello)
- Chaos In Space (2001) (aka Warp!) (converted from DOS to Inform)
- HLA Adventure (2004) (converted from HLA (high level assembly) to Inform)
Other:
- The Mind Electric (1995)
- Phlegm (1996)
- Apartment F209 (1997)
- Saied (1998)
- Annoyotron (1999)
- Chicks Dig Jerks (1999)
- Coke Is It! (1999)
- Death to my Enemies (1999)
- Revenger (1999)
- Not Just A Game (2000)
- Discord (2001)
- Fit for a Queen (2001)
- Heroes (2001)
- Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle (2001)
- The Sofa At The End Of The Universe (2001)
- A speedIF O entry (2001)
- Squeaky on the Moon (2001)
- The Weapon (2001)
- Appallatron: Annoyotron 3 (2002)
- The Body (2002)
- Cheeseshop (2002)
- Kraketoa Tuna Melt (2002)
- The Angel Curse (2003)
- The Corn Identity (2005)
- Dreary Lands (2005)
- The Fox, The Dragon, and The Stale Loaf of Bread (2005)
- Bob's Garage (2006)
- An Escape To Remember (2006)
- I'll (2006)
- This is the game that I wrote (2006)
- AFGNCAAP - IF Agent! Todays Adventure: Holy Goat! (2007)
- House of Dream of Moon (2007)
- Jack in the box (2007)
- The Day I shot ... (2007)
- Bedtime story (2008)
- Pick up the pine box and die (2008)
- The Day I mauled ... (2008)
- What Happens in Vagueness (2008)
- 69,105 (2009)
- HTP (2009)
- The Lighthouse (2009)
- IF Progressive One (2009)
- Teaching her to dance (2009)
- Yay Games (2009)
- The Day I stabbed Stalin (2010)
- Explore! (2010)
- Le Roi de Fihnargaia (2010)
- Bored Ladders (2011)
- Blue (2011)
- The day I hugged Ghandi! (2010)
- The Day I saved Elvis (2011)
- The extraordinary events of the last day of Professor Mangleworth (2011)
- Hangar 22 (2011)
- The man-eating, halitosic gorilla of Brazil (2011)
- Schießbefehl (2011)
- Color of Milk Coffee (2012)
- IF Whispers 5 (2012)
- A Reading in May (2012)
- The Day I died (2013)
- The Nessa Springs Slasher (2013)
- The tale of the cursed eagle (2013)
- The Day I came back (2014)
- More (2014)
- The Day of the Queen (2015)
- The oldest hangover on Earth (2015)
- Fajfeta sur la Luno (2020)
Status
A work-in-progress sub-engine of the new Glk API has been added based on Frotz.