[NTLK] NewtFrotz?

Alexander Shendi Alexander.Shendi at web.de
Wed Oct 14 12:16:58 PDT 2026


I have sucessfully used YAZI 2.0 from <https://www.unna.org/view.php?/games/YAZI1>. I did not need to enter any kind of key. Unfortunately it can't play any kind of story files newer than V3.

I too have never heard of NewtFrotz...

On October 14, 2026 9:07:15 PM GMT+02:00, MarisaG <marisag at haikumail.online> wrote:
>I think yazi would work if I had a key for it.
>
>Marisa
>
>On October 14, 2026 10:26:18 AM PDT, Morgan Aldridge <morgant at makkintosshu.com> wrote:
>>
>>On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 00:48 Marisa Giancarla via NewtonTalk <
>>newtontalk at newtontalk.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I have been looking for this but it appears to have vanished. The only
>>> google link is broken and it doesn't appear to be in unna. If you have
>>> the .pkg file i would appreciate sending my way so i can rectify this
>>> situation :)
>>
>>
>>Interesting, I had not heard of NewtFrotz. What link does Google provide
>>you?
>>
>>I wasn't able to find any results on DuckDuckGo (Bing) or Google, though
>>Google gave me an AI summary without saying there was ever a version ported
>>to Newton OS.
>>
>>I did perform a case-insensitive search for "frotz" in UNNA.org (the
>>archives & mirrors), both files and full-text, to no avail.
>>
>>I also didn't find much on if-archive.org. No Newton OS software other than
>>YAZI, anyway. There are many pen-computing ports of frotz, including
>>PalmOS, Windows CE, Psion, etc.:
>>
>><https://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/frotz/>
>>
>>Morgan
>>
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