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Leif Huhn <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
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Package: KFrotz
System name: frotz
Type: non-GNU

Description:
My project, tentatively named KFrotz, will be a complete overhaul of the 
interface of WinFrotz 2002 (A Z-machine interpreter used to play old games like 
Zork, and newer \"interactive fiction\") to Qt 3 / Qt 2.3 / Qt Embedded / KDE 
3.  99% of z-machine interpreters violate newer interface guidelines by not 
providing scrollback, or resizable windows (or by providing broken resizing and 
scrollback in a strange interface like WinFrotz 2002.)  This project will 
provide a much more uniform interface by initially dropping support for 
graphical text adventures such as Zork 0.

Currently the project compiles for Qt 3 only, and has only been compiled with 
GCC 3.2.  My primary goals are to make the program integrate into KDE and also 
work on handhelds running embedded linux, such as the Sharp Zaurus.  Currently 
the best palm sized interpreters run on non-free platforms only.

One possible sticking point is the name, which may change.  \"KFrotz\" was the 
name of a project in 1998 to port Frotz to KDE.  A search on google returns 
only one page making reference to it, and no reference to it has been made on 
Usenet since June 1999, according to google.  The source does not appear to be 
distributed on the internet any longer.

This project borrows code from WinFrotz 2002, which is under GPL v2, and Frotz 
2.43 which is under GPL v2.  The lzz files are preprocessed through Lzz, which 
is a non-free (?) utility for generating c++ source headers.  Before the first 
release it will be removed from the build system.  If you want to look at the 
code, please note that the Makefile is broken!  The source can be found under 
http://secure.dkstat.com/~leif/kfrotz.tgz

Aside from a few compilation tweaks, the tarball is Frotz 2.43, except for the 
directory src/common which is from WinFrotz 2002, and src/qt which contains my 
code and heavily modified portions of Frotz 2.43.  I am also planning to borrow 
from Zoom, another GPL v2 interpreter.

Other Software Required:
This program requires Qt 3 currently.  I\'m planning on porting it to Qt 2.3, 
Qt Embedded, Qtopia, and KDE.

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