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Old 07-02-2015, 11:10 PM   #39
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Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: All over the place...
Device: KOBO AuraHD and GLO
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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby View Post
The interactive games run on my Aura HD, using "Frotz", in Sergey's VlasosoftLauncher. This thread might help.

Luck;
Ken



Doh! I just got Frobtads and Frotz working before I saw that. But Thanks.


I have a vitual terminal now, runing ncurses. So Frotz ran perfectly on the first try.
I simply downloaded the source code, compiled it with kobo's arm GCC, linked against my libraries; and installed it on an external SD card. Walah, instant play.

My terminal has a vitual morse code keyboard; so I just use tap out international morse code on the screen, and the letters magically appear about as fast as I can peck...

The only requirement (beyond having a terminal program) was to set up busybox to allow it to run as a regular user rather than superuser. Frotz won't run in superuser mode.

Let the Zork sword glow again...

I am curious, though; there's a QT based interactive fiction game engine called QTads,
and also that engine comes with a web server version since 3.1.
SInce the Kobo natively runs QT anyway, and also has a web browser, I would have thought that was an ideal fit.

Has anyone ported QTads to KOBO yet?
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