Frotz on Xenix

Well after having some fun with gcc, I wanted to try something a little more… “fun”. I’ve had good luck in the past with ‘dumb frotz‘ on the old BSD stuff (4.2/4.3 etc) but surprisingly I had no luck at all with gcc & xenix.

Well that was rather odd.

So in some crazed attempt I tried the regular version of Unix Frotz 2.32. Xenix was lacking the memmove procedure, but thanks to an old post here, I was able to get it running under Xenix.

Ok, fair warning it is SLOW. It’ runs the cpu into 1.0 levels… I don’t know why. My attempts at building gdb and using it from that old Soviet site hasn’t met with much luck.

Oh, and it was easier to massage some make files with gnumake.

But it does run!

If anyone want’s to give it a whirl it’s available here.

2 thoughts on “Frotz on Xenix

  1. Is it likely that this version of Frotz would compile under TRS-Xenix 03.02.00 on a Tandy 6000? I would love to get this up and running.

    Kevin

  2. I don't have a Tandy 6000 and as far as I know there is no emulator…. But if someone could get me access I sure could try.

    If you have one, I'd start with dumbfrotz, assuming you have the compiler.

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