Frotz curses interface for Kindle Touch (via XTerm)

[twobob]

Originally Posted by ezuk

Does this work on the new Kindle Paperwhite?

Someone just got xterm going IIRC/. (You'll have to search that), there was some issue about the keyboard IIRC

you would need to launch the thing "by hand"
(You'll have to search that) (SSH)

but I don't see why not in the end

[twobob]

Okay so.... Getting this going on the PW via Kterm and KUAL

Basically Install Kterm (version 0.4 with the command support is required)
Install Kindle Unified Application Launcher

Install Binaries from Top post I installed dialog in /mnt/us/usr/bin as that is in my custom path. Do what is best for your setup, plenty of advice in the top post

Use the amended extensions launcher bundle (attached). replace the FROTZ entries that you have if necessary. Fvek has kindly updated the top post with an updated launcher script set. Use that.

shove a game in /mnt/us/if (freefall pictured)

enjoy.

[curudan]

I installed the newest launcher, copied the kterm and frotz folder into my extensions folder, created a bin folder, and copied "frotz", ".dialogrc", and "dialog" into it, and created a "if" folder and copied a zcode adventure there.

But the launcher shortcut isn't working for me; it just flashes "/mnt/us/extensions/frotz/bin/start_frotz_shell.sh" at the bottom of the screen for a moment, and boots me back to the home screen.

I can launch kterm from the launcher fine, and I can manually launch frotz through kterm.

[Fvek]

I updated the first post with a new version (1.1.2) set up for kterm and KUAL.

Curudan: I think your problem is that twobob's fix above uses the scripts from xterm that cause kterm to not run right (the same one's I forgot to edit properly too ) Use my new version and it should work (hopefully).

[twobob]

EDIT: As per the post above. Use the authors scripts instead

Thanks very much all for bringing this current

[knc1]

Originally Posted by curudan

I installed the newest launcher, copied the kterm and frotz folder into my extensions folder, created a bin folder, and copied "frotz", ".dialogrc", and "dialog" into it, and created a "if" folder and copied a zcode adventure there.

Which is not the installation layout that twobob reported as working above.

[curudan]

Originally Posted by Fvek

I updated the first post with a new version (1.1.2) set up for kterm and KUAL.

Curudan: I think your problem is that twobob's fix above uses the scripts from xterm that cause kterm to not run right (the same one's I forgot to edit properly too ) Use my new version and it should work (hopefully).

Thank you very much!

The new script works perfectly.

[twobob]

The archive in the top post for games is currently down.

Other Mirrors
If your path to this server is slow and cranky, consider these other IF-Archive access points:

USA: http://www.ifarchive.org (http) (ftp)
USA: http://mirror.ifarchive.org (http) (random selection of one of the below)
USA: http://ifarchive.jmac.org (http)
USA: http://ifmirror.russotto.net (http)
USA: http://ifarchive.flavorplex.com (http)
USA: http://ifarchive.smallwhitehouse.org (http)
USA: ifarchive.wurb.com (http) (temporarily offline)
USA: http://www.ifarchive.info (http)
USA: http://ifarchive.ifreviews.org (http) (ftp)
Ireland: http://ifarchive.heanet.ie (http)
Austria: http://ifarchive.giga.or.at (http)
USA: http://mirrors.ibiblio.org (http)
USA: gopher.feedle.net (gopher)

http://ifarchive.heanet.ie/if-archiv...ventureland.z5 <-- I had this on the Vic 20! with a mighty 16k RAM Pack to play it. Yes

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Recursive wget for kindle touch.
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/qm6s5obafsddjkn/wget.zip?dl=1

[root@kindle if]# cd /mnt/us/if; /mnt/us/usr/bin/wget -r -l 1 -A z5 http://ifarchive.heanet.ie/if-archive/games/zcode/

Total wall clock time: 1m 27s
Downloaded: 314 files, 35M in 44s (820 KB/s)

[pumpkinpbk]

maybe it's a stupid question but...
i seems to follow the step and it seems to be installed well, but when i try to save it, it always says "save failed", how to solve it???
is it common??

[twobob]

yep

you need to specify a location in full

I go for

/mnt/us/if/whatever.sav

that will work. HTH

EDIT: perhaps we could ask the author to fix that. if we asked REALLY nicely : D

[pumpkinpbk]

it really works！！！！
now i can play halfway and go read the solution

Originally Posted by twobob

yep

you need to specity a location in full

I go for

/mnt/us/if/whatever.sav

that will work. HTH

EDIT: perhaps we could ask the author to fix that. if we asked REALLY nicely : D

[twobob]

Originally Posted by pumpkinpbk

it really works！！！！
now i can play halfway and go read the solution

Saving:

Save files will be in /mnt/us/extensions/frotz/bin/ (this is not ideal, but it'll have to do until I figure out how to change it).

Yeah... that's seemingly not working.

Thanks for pointing it out

[icantbebothered]

Originally Posted by pumpkinpbk

now i can play halfway and go read the solution

High five.

[icantbebothered]

Is there any way to get zblorb files to run?

I tried replacing ZCODE with ZBLORB in "frotz_sh", but it didn't work.

[twobob]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

FWIW, the K3 does have the curse library bundled ;-).

I think I'll be needing this then. looking to do an all machine build. You interested? :P