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adq

KIF: an infocom text adventure interpreter for the kindle

Oct 09, 2010 01:44

This blog has moved Wow, this sort of thing seems to be in the news these days!

Note: I've updated these instructions for KIF 0.5; please see here for the release notes..

My app is different however: it isn't web hosted, it runs natively on the kindle using the KDK APIs. As I don't have the official KDK, you'll need to jailbreak your kindle and ( Read more... )

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neftaly October 9 2010, 09:12:47 UTC

Fantastic work - it runs without a hitch! You're missing the link to KIF-0.1.zip, however.

adq October 9 2010, 09:28:04 UTC

Thanks!

Fixed the link, ta.

zotz October 9 2010, 10:01:24 UTC

It looks like this other one's made slashdot. An opportunity to point out a better alternative?

adq October 10 2010, 01:34:19 UTC

I'll try, but I don't tend to have much success at posting to such sites!

adq October 10 2010, 01:47:23 UTC

Submitted; we shall see...

Just what I was looking for dougbtx October 9 2010, 20:29:36 UTC

I was wondering if there was a native client for Zork on the Kindle, great to see someone working on it!

Here's a patch to add some whitespace around the game text:

http://redmelon.net/patches/0001-Added-whitespace-around-the-game-text.patch

I'm thinking of adding word wrapping next. I see that the last couple of pixels of the last character on a line are sometimes clipped too.

Re: Just what I was looking for adq October 10 2010, 01:35:55 UTC

Cool! thanks, just applied.

Please go ahead with word wrapping; means I can get on with the styled/coloured text support...

Re: Just what I was looking for dougbtx October 10 2010, 13:59:59 UTC

Hey, I've uploaded some more patches: http://redmelon.net/patches/

0003 and 0004 add word wrapping, 0002 is just me keeping my git checkout in order.

I'm thinking about writing a packaging script to generate, say, curses.azw2 and minizork.azw2 with titles in the metadata, so that you can pick which game you want to play from the main Kindle books list. That gets most-recently played sorting for free.

Re: Just what I was looking for adq October 10 2010, 16:14:14 UTC

Looks good to me, applied.

The packaging script sounds cool!

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Without Jail Breaking anonymous October 10 2010, 15:13:06 UTC

Does anyone know if someone is working on a solution so we don't have to jailbreak our Kindle?

Re: Without Jail Breaking adq October 10 2010, 15:16:06 UTC

Well, the obvious one would be for Amazon to have deigned to reply to my request for a KDK beta account at www.amazon.com/kdk . Then (I assume) I'd just be able to publish it on Amazon's kindle store.

However, I never heard anything back from them and I didn't want to wait.