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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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Help anonymous December 26 2010, 01:23:22 UTC

Is there help included? For example, a question mark would list the commands the interpreter understands.

Re: Help adq January 9 2011, 21:23:06 UTC

I don't know if that is actually possible; its entirely up to the interpreter running in the Zcode VM what is supports.

Really cool ext_382542 January 6 2011, 23:22:28 UTC

Thank you for making this !

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Re: Love it! jeritue January 11 2011, 16:44:38 UTC

You have to type RESTORE Dude...

Awesome! Better than reading books jeritue January 11 2011, 16:41:23 UTC

just wish that i could adjust the font size. and also support for scott adams games would be cool, can i buy you a beer ?

Re: Awesome! Better than reading books adq January 17 2011, 09:27:38 UTC

Hmmm yeah, font size should be doable when I'm next in the mood for working on kif.

Scott Adams games do seem to be just infocom games; if you dig about in the source of the HTML (e.g. http://www.freearcade.com/Zplet.jav/Advland.html is ADVLAND.Z5) , you can find the filenames of them ... or are you seeing a specific issue?

As for beer, that'd be great! Transferring it over the internet might be tricky though :)

Additional Games anonymous February 4 2011, 01:20:03 UTC

Thanks for doing this! Great to see this for the Kindle.

Can you walk me through adding a game from the IF archive? I tried downloading a file with a .z5 extension and putting it in the documents folder on my Kindle. I couldn't get that game to be recognized.

The two games in your download worked fine. I noticed your file was a .azw2 extension. Not sure what the difference is or if that matters.

Re: Additional Games adq February 9 2011, 09:47:48 UTC

Ah, you need to put it in a specific folder on the kindle.

If you plug it into a PC and access the kindle's "drive", you put the z5 games in /developer/kif/work/

If you've unzipped kif-0.5.zip with the full directory structure, it should have created those directories for you.

Re: Additional Games anonymous February 17 2011, 01:03:53 UTC

Thanks that worked like a charm.
I'm really loving playing IF on my Kindle. It makes my commute on the subway go by faster. Plus I found all the old Infocom games I remember from high school. I plan to play them all.

Re: Additional Games adq February 17 2011, 18:30:13 UTC

Glad you like it!