Hello all,
Recently I installed the Rocky Linux 9 and I was very surprised when I realized there is no frotz package for playing Zork in any repository, not even RPM fusion. Are you familiar on
a) how to obtain it
b) how to build it from source
or
c) any RL alternatives to it?
Any help is very appreciated.
Thank you
This is the source and contains links to various places; Frotz
You can find a list of other z-code (infocom) interpreters here; Z-code interpreters - IFWiki
It looks like they want you to read the file called ‘INSTALL’, and then edit the Makefile, and then run the Makefile.
The Makefile has some helpful comments above each section.
Maybe it’s just easier to do:
dnf install epel-release
dnf install zork
From my system:
root@rocky9:~# dnf install zork
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Rocky Linux 9 BaseOS 88 kB/s | 4.1 kB 00:00
Rocky Linux 9 Extras 71 kB/s | 2.9 kB 00:00
Rocky Linux 9 CRB 83 kB/s | 4.5 kB 00:00
Rocky Linux 9 AppStream 115 kB/s | 4.5 kB 00:00
EPEL 59 kB/s | 2.3 kB 00:00
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Architecture Version Repository Size
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Installing:
zork x86_64 1.0.3-5.el9 epel 179 k
Transaction Summary
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Install 1 Package
Total download size: 179 k
Installed size: 260 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
zork-1.0.3-5.el9.x86_64.rpm 2.3 MB/s | 179 kB 00:00
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Total 2.2 MB/s | 179 kB 00:00
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
Preparing : 1/1
Installing : zork-1.0.3-5.el9.x86_64 1/1
Running scriptlet: zork-1.0.3-5.el9.x86_64 1/1
Verifying : zork-1.0.3-5.el9.x86_64 1/1
Installed products updated.
Installed:
zork-1.0.3-5.el9.x86_64
Complete!
root@rocky9:~# zork
Welcome to Dungeon. This version created 11-MAR-91.
You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded
front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
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I’ve read the instructions in INSTALL file as sugested and they seem easy to follow. I will try to do so during the week. Thank you.
Regarding the zork package, I don’t want to play only this game, but other like planetfall too, so the frotz is really necessary for me. But thank you for your suggestion.
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