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Revision as of 08:43, 24 March 2020
| 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:
- 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)
- The Nine Dancers (1986) (converted from BBC 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)
- Snafufun (1988) (converted from BASIC to Inform)
- The Puppet-Man (1987) (converted from BBC to Inform)
- Paranoia (1987) (converted from C to Inform)
- Odieus' Quest for the Magic Flingshot (1993) (converted from LADS (Levy's Adventure Development System) to AGT (Adventure Game Toolkit) to Inform)
- Robot Finds Kitten (1997) (converted from C to Inform)
- Chaos In Space (2001) (aka Warp!) (converted from DOS to Inform)
- HLA Adventure (2004) (converted from HLA (high level assembly) to Inform)
Other:
- Bob's Garage (2006)
- Le Roi de Fihnargaia (2010)
Status
A work-in-progress sub-engine of the new Glk API has been added based on Frotz.