Frobnitz is a Z-Machine interpreter that runs on PalmOS.
What's a Z-Machine, you ask? It's the virtual machine developed by Infocom for its text adventures, also known as "interactive fiction". Infocom has long since passed on, but the Z-Machine format has since been adopted for the authoring of interactive fiction by others.
· V1-V5, V7, V8 story files formats.
· Full support for the upper window. An 80x25 screen is emulated and you can scroll the upper window to view up to 40x17 of it at a time.
· A smart mode that can decode the upper window and display an easier to read title bar.
· Timed and interrupted input.
· Emulation of the mouse via the stylus.
· Color support (on color devices).
· Keyboard support.
· Line input is always done with a Palm input field, so you can use the popup keyboard at any time.
· Excellent support for the Palm application model. Alarms and power saving features aren't interfered with.
· Many shortcuts to avoid entering the same words over and over.
· A scrollback buffer.
· A method to allow you to read the "pop-ups" or "poems" that some games provide.
· Undo feature. For games that support it.
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Supported operating systems:
Palm OS 3.x, Palm OS 4.x, Palm OS 5.x
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