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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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kyhwana October 11 2010, 03:10:09 UTC

How'd you find out about the KDK APIs? Is there any documentation out there that I can get access to? (I've also applied for the kindle dev program, never heard back)

adq October 11 2010, 13:16:33 UTC

See http://adq.livejournal.com/106967.html for useful links (also later posts detail my progress). I simply pulled the Kindlet/KDK jars off my Kindle's filing system.

Amazon left the KDK API docs publically accessible. A quick google search found people linking to them; there's a link to them in that post.

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adq October 15 2010, 13:39:07 UTC

Cool - hadn't heard of them! It's an obvious use of the platform really..

Sounds like they use Glulx as their VM.

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thanks a bunch... spazhammer October 12 2010, 10:41:45 UTC

you just made me lose my recently purchased kindle to my girlfriend, who was obsessed with zork.

i hate you.

(thanks) ;)

Re: thanks a bunch... adq October 15 2010, 08:51:29 UTC

Heh; wait till I get nethack working on it :)

Brilliant! anonymous October 13 2010, 00:36:52 UTC

Thanks so much, this makes my Kindle complete :-)

Too much games ext_297234 October 24 2010, 23:39:54 UTC

Great job! The kindle is one of the best platforms for IF *ever*. Lightweight, great display for it, so-so keyboard, great battery.
I've tried some games with success, but I ran into a problem that if I install every game that comes with Masterpieces of Infocom, I cannot scroll down to see all games. Maybe a split-column would work...

Re: Too much games adq November 3 2010, 23:10:53 UTC

Glad you agree!

Yeah, I need to implement multi-paging in the file selector views, its on my todo list.

Do just what the guide says anonymous November 3 2010, 22:50:06 UTC

I tried to do everything at once, so I just copied all the files over at once. I also included the uninstall files.

Not sure where my mistake was, but it worked when I did exactly what the guide says. RTFM ;-)

BTW. It would be great if you could put the source code up on sourceforge or a similar place.

Re: Do just what the guide says adq November 3 2010, 23:11:50 UTC

Heh :)

The source is already up, easy to miss the link in the original post: http://code.google.com/p/adqmisc/source/browse/#svn/trunk/kif