Burned out on all the new-fangled graphics and dazzling eye candy on your shiny new iPhone?

Nostalgic for a simpler time?

Then take advantage of those crisp high-resolution fonts to relive the glory days of the Great Underground Empire, or play any of hundreds of great works from the Interactive Fiction Database.

New Version 1.2 Available

04/15/2009

My apologies for the long hiatus in development. A new version of Frotz is now available on the App Store. Changes include:

• More performance improvements: Frotz manages story metadata better and uses less memory.
• Support for transferring both story files and saved games using a built-in FTP server
• Preferences allowing you to select custom text and background colors and change the story font
• Ability to disable automatic word completion, useful for playing games in languages than English
• Fixed bugs handling fixed-width text in story output

New Version 1.0.1 Available

8/27/2008

A new version of Frotz is now available on the App Store. Changes include:

• Performance improvements: Frotz no longer slows down during long sessions, and uses less memory.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and interface improvements.
• Added help for users new to Interactive Fiction.
• Support for deleting bundled games from Story List.
• Support for transferring games with MobileFinder.

Color/font settings did not make it into this version, but will be available shortly. Well, as shortly as possible given Apple's week long turn around for approval.

Interactive Fiction at Your Fingertips

Frotz lets you play hundreds of free works of Interactive Fiction (a.k.a. text adventure games) on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Frotz plays games written in the Z-Machine format. This format was invented by Infocom and was used to produce great text adventures from the 80s such as the Zork Trilogy, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Trinity.

In the past decade, text adventures have experienced a renaissance thanks to a great Internet community of interactive fiction writers and fans. Many of these games are written using the same engine that powered Infocom's titles, thanks to the Inform compiler and authoring system created by Graham Nelson.

Frotz includes several built-in games, and includes a web portal for downloading new ones from the Internet.

Click here for support and FAQ.