{"id":271,"date":"2005-01-19T15:56:43","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T20:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/?p=271"},"modified":"2013-11-28T09:08:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T14:08:31","slug":"palmfrotz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/2005\/01\/19\/palmfrotz\/","title":{"rendered":"PalmFrotz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2002 I started a new port of the Frotz Z-machine interpreter for PalmOS computers. My desire to do so was driven by the fact that the two available Z-machine interpreters available for PalmOS machines (Pilot-Frotz and Frobnitz) were showing their age. Also, the core code of the Frotz project had been released under the GPL and it seemed that a GPL based PalmOS port would be a valuable thing.<\/p>\n<p>I mainly worked on it during my lunch breaks at work. But this was my first foray into PalmOS programming and progress was slow. After some time, I ended up losing my job and my personal life changed quite a bit as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Sometime after this, two other GPL&#8217;d Z-machine interpreters for PalmOS were released (Kronos and CliFrotz). Both seem to be hitting that need for which I originally started my PalmFrotz port.<\/p>\n<p>So, PalmFrotz as a project is officially dead.  However, recently another PalmOS interpreter has emerged called <a href=\"http:\/\/cellardoor.sourceforge.net\">Cellar Door<\/a>.  I highly recommend it.  And the author has kindly acknowledged the work that I put into PalmFrotz!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2002 I started a new port of the Frotz Z-machine interpreter for PalmOS computers. My desire to do so was driven by the fact that the two available Z-machine interpreters available for PalmOS machines (Pilot-Frotz and Frobnitz) were showing their age. Also, the core code of the Frotz project had been released under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[77,19],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-games","tag-palm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}