ABOUT FIZMO fizmo represents a generic a Z-Machine interpreter â "fizmo interprets z- machine opcodes" â supporting all Z-Machine kinds except version 6, allowing you to run Infocom-made and most other Z-Machine based interactive fiction, also called text adventures. It also provides a generalized, plain-C interpreter library, as well as interfaces / implementations for various display and sound output methods, providing an interpreter-engine for you own project, even for closed-source implementations due to it's BSD-style license. - About Infocom and interactive fiction in general, see the "New to IF" at http://www.ifarchive.org section at the Interactive Fiction Archive. - To download Z-Machine games, see the IF-Archive's "Z-Code" at http:// www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXgamesXzcode.html section. --- FRONTENDS Currently there are five frontends available: - fizmo-sdl2 Using the freetype2 engine, this SDL2-based frontend allows for proportional font display and supports antialiasing, subpixel-rendering and HiDPI support. It uses the "Fira Sans" and "Fira Mono" font faces which were made by Erik Spiekermann and Ralph du Carrois. - fizmo-ncursesw This frontend uses ncurses "wide" variant for story output. Ncurses at http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ is commonly used for output on fixed-width text displays. The wide extensions will ensure correct unicode display. - fizmo-console This frontend will simple read and write from the console / terminal. No fance functionality whatsoever, but may be useful for automization or voice output. - fizmo-glktermw An example Glk at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glk_(software) frontend. Requires glktermw â notice the trailing "w" â which may be downloaded from the GLK-Implementations at http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if- archiveXprogrammingXglkXimplementations.html at the Interactive Fiction archive. - fizmo-remglk A RemGlk at http://www.eblong.com/zarf/glk/remglk/docs.html-based fizmo frontend. Requires remglk, which may be downloaded from GitHub at http://github.com/erkyrath/remglk/. --- INTERFACES For developers, interfaces translate the Z-machine specific output â window management, output, scrolling and so on â into more display- specific commands, easing implementation considerably. - libpixelif This interface will convert output into draw-pixel commands, providing support for implementations on any pixel-based display. This interface is used by fizmo-sdl2. - libmonospaceif This interface will convert output into simple "goto-xy"- and "print"- commands, providing support for implementations on a fixed-width display. This interface is used by fizmo-ncursesw. - libglkif The GLK-interface translates Z-Machine output into GLK-specific instructions. This is used by Andrew Plotkin's iOS-fizmo at https:// github.com/erkyrath/iosfizmo/. --- LIBRARIES - libfizmo This provides the interpreter core. It is a plain-C implementation which requires no external libraries (libxml2 is used by default, but in case babel support is not needed even libxml2 is not required). - libdrilbo Provides support for jpeg, png and infocom's mg1 image reading as well as X11-based output. - libsndifsdl2 Supplies a SDL2-based sound interface. --- INSTALLATION Please see âINSTALL.txtâ on how to bulid the packages. --- MISCELLANEOUS Please send bug reports (or other requests) to fizmo@spellbreaker.org at mailto:fizmo@spellbreaker.org. Fizmo was written by Christoph Ender in 2005 -- 2016. Please note: Currently fizmo is in beta status, meaning it might do unexpected things such as stop with an error message, crash or cleesh your machine into a frog. There is no warranty of any kind whatsoever and you're entirely on your own when running it.