Frotz/Z-Machine support

[cptmadness]

Hi everyone,

I'm currently looking into getting the Z-Machine text adventure interpreter Frotz working on the MiSTer in basically the same manner as bbond007 has managed to get Doom, Basilisk II and ScummVM running.

Really floating the idea since I know bbond007 has done this a few times before and it'd be great to have some help with this, but worst case I'm just going to try and reverse engineer what he's done.

That's all. Watch this space. Maybe.

[Newsdee]

Why not port an FPGA core instead?
https://github.com/charcole/Z3

Alrhough more simply, why not just use ao486?

[Mellified]

the same manner as bbond007 has managed to get Doom, Basilisk II and ScummVM running.

Since ScummVM runs Frotz already this seems pointless.

https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Glk/ZCode

[cptmadness]

Why not port an FPGA core instead?
https://github.com/charcole/Z3

Alrhough more simply, why not just use ao486?

Because tbh the FPGA core looks very immature, and only supports up to the Z3 version of Z-Machine, while Frotz is very mature and supports all versions as far as I know.

Also why not use AO486? Convenience mainly. Same reason as why I have ScummVM installed.

[cptmadness]

the same manner as bbond007 has managed to get Doom, Basilisk II and ScummVM running.

Since ScummVM runs Frotz already this seems pointless.

https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Glk/ZCode

Thank you, I was not aware of that. I'll test it and if it does everything then I'll retract this, no point in doing the all the work if ScummVM already does it.

[misterious]

the same manner as bbond007 has managed to get Doom, Basilisk II and ScummVM running.

Since ScummVM runs Frotz already this seems pointless.

https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Glk/ZCode

Thank you, I was not aware of that. I'll test it and if it does everything then I'll retract this, no point in doing the all the work if ScummVM already does it.

I found this thread so I copied all my infocom games on the SD, launched scummVM but the latest version (220) couldn't import any game , did you have any success?

[Mellified]

I found this thread so I copied all my infocom games on the SD, launched scummVM but the latest version (220) couldn't import any game , did you have any success?

I used the 2.2.0 Unstable branch and was able to load Infocom games OK.

ScummVM-Infocom.png (243.35 KiB) Viewed 3123 times

[misterious]

thanks, I installed the unstable branch and mass imported all the games!