Homebrew Frotz 3DS?

[NuikopeaDemon]

I am curious to know if it's possible for someone to make a Frotz 3DS Port?


Because I would love to play the OLD SCHOOL Text Adventure Games on my 3DS

Especially..... ZORK!!!!

 

[bache]

Funny you mention that, I was digging around in my garage today and found a lone diskette. Zork I for C64 .

 

[NuikopeaDemon]

Funny you mention that, I was digging around in my garage today and found a lone diskette. Zork I for C64 .

Niiiiiiice

xyzzy
"A hollow voice says 'fool'"

 

[hippy dave]

Definitely possible.

 

[TheCruel]

I was thinking about this, but while I love IF games, I wouldn't want to do it on touchscreen, especially the 3ds. So I'm not motivated to do it.

I made a "multiplayer" IF system for the web a couple years ago. A little glitchy, but you can check it out: http://if.cruels.net/?room=Zork

I'll be on it for a little while (preface comment with a period, e.g. ".hello" to talk without issuing command)

Guess it could be cool to make a 3ds client for this multiplayer server/

 

[teampleb]

I was thinking about this, but while I love IF games, I wouldn't want to do it on touchscreen, especially the 3ds. So I'm not motivated to do it.

I made a "multiplayer" IF system for the web a couple years ago. A little glitchy, but you can check it out: http://if.cruels.net/?room=Zork

I'll be on it for a little while (preface comment with a period, e.g. ".hello" to talk without issuing command)

Guess it could be cool to make a 3ds client for this multiplayer server/

Dooooo it. I'd love you forever. B)

 

[chaser]

Sorry for bringing up an old thread, but I thought I was really in luck when I found this thread!

Frotz on 3DS would be soooo cool - especially to get zork running. I just tried to covert the old .gba version to .cia, but that didn't work for me. I did a bit of searching and also found another interpreter called gargolye that is being actively maintained. That would be another good one for conversion to 3DS, as it also does a-code interpretation (Level 9 adventures)!

Here's hoping that some day someone with more skills than me will be able and motivated to port a text adventure app to the 3DS system

 

[NuikopeaDemon]

Sorry for bringing up an old thread, but I thought I was really in luck when I found this thread!

Frotz on 3DS would be soooo cool - especially to get zork running. I just tried to covert the old .gba version to .cia, but that didn't work for me. I did a bit of searching and also found another interpreter called gargolye that is being actively maintained. That would be another good one for conversion to 3DS, as it also does a-code interpretation (Level 9 adventures)!

Here's hoping that some day someone with more skills than me will be able and motivated to port a text adventure app to the 3DS system

I bloody hope someone can do this !!! I used to have a bunch of Text Adventure games I used to play never completed them because I was still new to them but I mean a Z machine shouldn't be that hard to port over .... I mean we have all kinds of stuff now if someone can get this done I would have a lot of Text adventure games to play

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Sorry for bringing up an old thread, but I thought I was really in luck when I found this thread!

Frotz on 3DS would be soooo cool - especially to get zork running. I just tried to covert the old .gba version to .cia, but that didn't work for me. I did a bit of searching and also found another interpreter called gargolye that is being actively maintained. That would be another good one for conversion to 3DS, as it also does a-code interpretation (Level 9 adventures)!

Here's hoping that some day someone with more skills than me will be able and motivated to port a text adventure app to the 3DS system

also don't be sorry I'm surprised I'm not the only one who wants this considering I made this thread a long time ago

 

[Shinigami1016]

The touch screen might not be ideal for typing, but I've played zork on a two button pad (gbc) before, so... The screen would be amazing for drawing maps and keeping notes, though. I'm going to look into this.

 

[lincruste]

Forget about Frotz.
If you want a touch screen ready z-machine interpreter, Text Fiction is what you want ported:
https://github.com/onyxbits/textfiction
I use it on Android, it's even faster than typing in the text parser with a keyboard.