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Remember Zork, Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and other such games from the '70s-'80s? You know, "interactive fiction"? Well, frotz is the way you should be playing those games under Mac OS X. Detailed instructions are included, along with links you can use to find game files (which are not included). Happy adventuring!
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
- Mac OS X 10.1
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.1.2 - 10.2.8. Reported to be incompatible with 10.3 or higher, although some users claim to have been able to install it using fink.
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Good interpreter -… 
- Version: 2.41, 4/21/2003 10:15PM PST
sascha3
for those with problems running this on Jaguar, install with fink: 'fink install frotz', or use the Mac OS X version of 'Zoom': http://www.logicalshift.demon.co.uk/mac/zoom.html - runs flawlessly.
"There were errors… - Version: 2.41, 2/20/2003 07:19AM PST
jtbrownTX
installing the software. Please try installing again." I'm running OS 10.2.4, tried installing frotz 2.4.1 release 1.5 (02/17/02)
maisha (and anyone… - Version: 2.41, 10/3/2002 09:37PM PST
Ribbet Wartfrog
else with this problem): when I tried to run frotz in Jag, I got this error message: "dyld: frotz can't open library: /usr/local/lib/libncurses.dylib.5 (No such file or directory, errno = 2)". When I looked in /usr/local/lib, I found a file (actually a sumbolic link) called libncurses.5.dylib. Embarrassingly, it took me forever to realize that these two file names were different (the 5 in a different place). Here's what I did to fix the problem. in the Terminal, enter "sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libncurses.5.dylib /usr/local/lib/libncurses.dylib.5". This creates a link from the name frotz is expecting to the file it really wants. (A more professional solution I guess would involve editing the frotz source files.)
