[NTLK] NewtFrotz?

[Alexander Shendi]

YAZI is not based on Frotz, but on Mark Howell's ZIP ("ZORK Interpreter Program").

<https://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/old/zip/>

On October 22, 2026 12:10:46 AM GMT+02:00, Grant Hutchinson via NewtonTalk <newtontalk at newtontalk.net> 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
>
>Was there actually ever a package called “NewtFrotz” or was it just a nickname for YAZI?
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>YAZI was likely based on the Frotz interpreter (which was written in highly portable C code).
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>From Wikipedia:
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>“Popular interpreters include Nitfol and Frotz. Nitfol makes use of the Glk API [...] Frotz was written in C by Stefan Jokisch in 1995 for DOS. Over time it was ported to other platforms, such as Unix-like systems, RISC OS, and iOS.”
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>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine#Interpreters
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>g.
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