Overview

This is a Dockerized frotz interpreter for Infocom and other Z-Machine games.

This is built directly from the source repo maintained by David Griffith. This version of frotz is built without sound in order to compile and run properly in an Alpine Linux container.

You can also visit the Docker Hub repo.

Running

# create a container in interactive mode, mapping your local zfiles directory into the container. Change /home/frotz
# to anything that works for you to access the zfiles
docker run -ti -v $PWD/zfiles:/home/frotz newtmitch/frotz

# start a zfile
frotz telling.z5

Building

GIT_CHECKOUT=2.52 && \
    docker build -t newtmitch/frotz --build-arg GIT_CHECKOUT . && \
    docker tag newtmitch/frotz newtmitch/frotz:$GIT_CHECKOUT

Change Log

2020-11-26

Moved to alpine linux from ubutnu
Building directly from source and latest mainstream release tag (instead of sourceforge binary)
staged build for smaller final image
Added README so people can actually use this image

2016 (sometime)