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FROTZ V2.54 - An interpreter for all Infocom and other Z-machine games.
Complies with standard 1.0 of Graham Nelson's specification.

Originally written by Stefan Jokisch in 1995-1997.
Ported to Unix by Galen Hazelwood.
Reference code and Unix port currently maintained by David Griffith.

- Compiles and runs on most common flavors of Unix, both open source and not.
  This includes macOS.
- Compiles and runs on MSDOS/PCDOS/FreeDOS.
- Compiles and runs on PDP-10 mainframes running the TOPS20 operating system.
- Portable to many other operating systems and hardware.
- Curses, Dumb, and SDL user interfaces.
- Plays all Z-code games including V6.
- Sound support through libao.
- Graphics displayed through SDL.
- Config files.
- User-configurable error checking.
- Distributed under the GNU Public License, version 2 or any later version.


For information on what Interactive Fiction is and how to play it, see the
file "HOW_TO_PLAY".

For installation information, see the file "INSTALL".

For information on building for DOS, see the file "INSTALL_DOS".

For information on building for TOPS20, see the file "INSTALL_PDP10".

For update history, see the file "Changelog".

For information on known bugs in Frotz, see the file "BUGS".

The Frotz homepage is at https://661.org/proj/if/frotz/

The latest information on and source code of Unix Frotz is available at 
https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/frotz

The latest release of Unix Frotz is available from the Interactive
Fiction Archive at:
http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/frotz/
	frotz-<version>.tar.gz
and
ftp://ftp.ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/frotz/
	frotz-<version>.tar.gz


The Interactive Fiction Archive has several mirrors which may be better
choices depending on where you live.

	USA: http://ifarchive.jmac.org
	USA: http://ifmirror.russotto.net
	USA: http://ifarchive.info
	USA: http://ifarchive.ifreviews.org
	USA: http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/interactive-fiction/
	USA: gopher://gopher.661.org/1/if-archive