I want to port the Frotz z-machine interpreter to the Amazon Kindle. Is this even possible? [closed]

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I want to be able to play works of interactive fiction on an Amazon Kindle 2. In order to do this, I would need to port the Frotz interpreter to the Kindle. So far, I have not been able to find anywhere that Kindle application development is discussed. Does such a thing exist? Where can I find more information?

Wounded answered 22/3, 2009 at 22:1 Comment(2)

There are other z-machine interpreters for Unix than Frotz: csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/interp.html – Oubre 22/3, 2009 at 22:32

How's the porting going? – Oubre 5/5, 2009 at 17:13

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Looks like Jimmy Maher of Antiquarian Productions has completed a port of the Z-Machine to the Kindle and in fact has a book for sale: http://maher.filfre.net/King/

Unfortunately (well, partly unfortunately), it looks like his is a commercial venture and he won't be releasing source code for his port for others to play along even on a jailbroken Kindle.

Wounded answered 29/1, 2012 at 2:35 Comment(0)

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There's already a web app. Does the kindle support javascript? If so this might be worth a try: http://parchment.toolness.com/

Peroxy answered 29/10, 2009 at 19:36 Comment(1)

parchment works great - even offline. You only have to load the javascript once into the browser and don't navigate away... – Graaf 1/6, 2011 at 14:0

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Yes the KDK allows for apps like this, you just have to write it in Java (1.4) but other than that you are free to do this (and it would be a cool use of the KDK, you should apply to the beta program)

Astrix answered 26/2, 2010 at 17:50 Comment(1)

@Wounded How's the porting going? – Oubre 14/1, 2011 at 22:41

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This blog reversing everything is about kindle hacking. (it's a linux box after all)

Draco answered 22/3, 2009 at 22:17 Comment(0)

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Aswell as parchment, there is also http://www.web-adventures.org

This is a very minimal HTML only site that should render well on any device including the Kindle.

Burseraceous answered 13/1, 2011 at 16:10 Comment(0)

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You could build it as a web app and use the Kindle browser to play.

http://johnaugust.com/archives/2009/kindle-formatting-for-web-geeks

Fortdefrance answered 2/6, 2009 at 14:54 Comment(0)

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Since the Kindle Development Kit (KDK) is Java-based, perhaps a good starting point is a Java-based Z-machine interpreter like http://zmpp.sourceforge.net/

Pskov answered 8/9, 2010 at 21:30 Comment(0)

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There is an open source project going on here: http://adq.livejournal.com/109224.html But it is outside the KDK since the KDK is not widely available.

Begun answered 19/10, 2010 at 11:43 Comment(0)

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Looks like Jimmy Maher of Antiquarian Productions has completed a port of the Z-Machine to the Kindle and in fact has a book for sale: http://maher.filfre.net/King/

Unfortunately (well, partly unfortunately), it looks like his is a commercial venture and he won't be releasing source code for his port for others to play along even on a jailbroken Kindle.

Wounded answered 29/1, 2012 at 2:35 Comment(0)

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