EPOC Interactive Fiction Homepage

Introduction

This site is a collection of software for playing Interactive Fiction (IF) adventures that I've ported to the EPOC O/S that runs on the Nokia Communicator 9200 series (9210/9290) and Psion PDAs. All the programs here are Freeware.

Interactive Fiction is text based adventure games made popular in the 1980's by such companies as Infocom, Level9 and Magnetic Scrolls. Although adventure games have "moved on" introducing pretty pictures and sound they have lost that quality that only text based games can produce - i.e. it leaves much more to your imagination.

The following IF interpreters are available here:

• Frotz - a Frotz interpreter for Infocom games (Zork, Hitch Hiker, Enchanter etc) for the EPOC PDAs and Nokia Communicator
• HUGO - a HUGO interpreter (Nokia & Psion)
• Magnetic - an interpreter for Magnetic Scrolls games, with full support for graphics! (Nokia & Psion)
• TADS - interpreter for Psion PDAs
• Level9 - interpreter for Psion PDAs

You'll need adventure files to play on these interpreters. In most cases you can get these from the links below. However Infocom adventures are still copyright but there is a large library of free games written in the Infocom format.

10/03/02 - Magnetic v2.0 & Hugo v2.5.03a r3 released for EPOC v5 (Revo/5mx/7/netBook/Mako).

07/03/02 - Magnetic v2.0 released. Now supports graphics!

25/02/02 - FrotzN v1.9 and Hugo v2.5.03a have been released.

Links

Below are links to various IF related web sites that may be of use.

• Interactive-Fiction Games Archive with many IF (Infocom/Hugo) games
• Excellent article on Interactive Fiction (IF)
• Interactive Fiction's newsgroups: rec.games.int-fiction (for players) & rec.arts.int-fiction (for story writers)

Other Software I've written:

• EBook for Nokia - a shareware program of mine for reading eetexts/ebooks on your Nokia Communicator 9200 series.
• EBook for EPOC - a shareware program of mine for reading eetexts/ebooks on your EPOC/Psion PDA.