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Unix Interpreters for Unix-like systems, such as Linux, SunOS, BSD. Zoom source (home page)  (Version 1.0.1 / 021102)  Andrew Hunter Download (358KB)  V3-V8 support; Blorb graphics, Unicode support. Complies with Standard 1.1 (draft 6 or later). X11 Frotz  (Version 2.32 / 000526)  Stefan Jokisch, ported by Daniel Schleper Download   V1-V8 support, Infocom-format sound and graphics. Complies with Standard 1.0. Unix Frotz  (Version 2.43 / 021027)  Stefan Jokisch, ported by Galen Hazelwood and David Griffith Download   V1-V8 support, Infocom-format sound, no graphics; Quetzal savefiles. Complies with Standard 1.0. Linux Frotz  (Version 2.32 / 990120)  Stefan Jokisch, compiled by Burt Holzman Download   Frotz compiled for x86 Red Hat Linux. Complies with Standard 1.0. Linux Frotz source package  (Version 2.32 / 990120)  Stefan Jokisch, ported by Joe Mason, Burt Holzman Download   RPM source package for Red Hat Linux. SunOS Frotz  (Version 2.32 / 990422)  Stefan Jokisch, ported by S. van der Groov Download   For SunOS 5.6 (Sparc). Complies with Standard 1.0. KDE Kwest  (Version 0.9 / 010815)  Stefan Jokisch, ported by Peter Bienstman Download (456KB)  V1-V8 support, no sound or graphics. A port of Frotz 2.41 to KDE. Nitfol source (tar/gzip)  (Version 0.5 / 991025)  Evin Robertson Download   V1-V8 support (partial V6). Support for Blorb sound and music, depending on capabilities of Glk library; no graphics; Quetzal savefiles. Nitfol patches  (2003)  Simon Baldwin Download   Patches for Nitfol 0.5 to fix a crash, run V2 games, display accented characters, remove unwanted flickering in XGlk-built nitfol, and fix undo/redo Nitfol patches  (2003)   Download   Linux Glk executables of Nitfol 0.5 compiled with the patches in nitfol-0.5-patches.zip, compiled by Simon Baldwin. Linux Zeal binaries  (Version 1.1 / 000422)  Jeremy Condit Download (380KB)  V1-V5, V7 and V8 support, Quetzal savefiles. Uses Glk. Zeal source  (Version 1.1 / 000422)  Jeremy Condit Download (380KB)  Source for a Glk-based interpreter providing V1-V5, V7 and V8 support and Quetzal savefiles. Unix/X Infocom  (Version 1.8m / 961017)  Bryan Scattergood Download   V1-V5, V7 and V8 support. A descendent of the original ITF interpreter. Irix 5.3 ZIP  (Version 2.0 / 961213)  Mark Howell, ported by John Kennedy Download   V1-V5 and V8 support. XZip source (home page)  (Version 1.8.2 / 001020)  Mark Howell and Andrew Plotkin Download   X Window interpreter based on ZIP 2.0.7. V1-V5 and V8 support, Quetzal savefiles. XZip font 3 patch  (990428)  John Elliot Download   Patch to add font 3 (as used in Beyond Zork) to XZip. XZip x86 binary package  (Version 1.8.2 / 010108)  Andrew Plotkin, packaged by Nils Barth Download   RPM binary package for Red Hat Linux. Red Hat Linux XZip source package  (Version 1.8.2 / 010108)  Andrew Plotkin, packaged by Nils Barth Download   RPM source package for Red Hat Linux. GlkZip source  (Version 0.1 / 990617)  Daniel Schleper Download   Port of XZip 1.8.1 to Glk. GlkZip patch  (001030)  D.J. Picton Download   Patch for GlkZip 0.1, which includes all the changes in XZip 1.8.2 and also fixes a bug which prevents help menus from displaying correctly in some games. Linux GlkZip  (Version 0.1 / 000504)  Daniel Schleper Download   Linux binaries of GlkZip for terminal and X ZIPDebug  (940519)  Frank Lancaster Download   V1-V5 support. A combined command-line interpreter and interactive Z-machine-level debugger.

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