lectrote

There are still people making new works of interactive fiction, including in the parser-based style of Adventure or Zork. You can find a lot of the more recent games on IFDB[0] and general info about IF and the community on IFWiki[1]. Most modern parser games are built for VMs with interpreters available for many operating systems and types of devices, with Lectrote[2] being a common recommendation for desktop platforms. [0]: https://ifdb.tads.org [1]: http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Main_Page [2]: https://github.com/erkyrath/lectrote

Damnit now I wanna kick back with a good drink and some paper to slowly draw a map upon and have another go at Curses. But first I have to pick an interpreter for my Mac. The list[1] pointed to in this article is spectacularly unhelpful, what with being a series of directories with names largely derived from spells in Enchanter and no hints as to what platforms they're on, or what the strengths and weaknesses of each is. The IFDB page for Curses[2] that this article links to points me to a page on another site entirely[3] for interpreter recommendations. Its suggestion for Windows, Mac, and Linux is Lectrote[4]. Which is an Electron app that binds together no less than four different adventure game interpreters. I am generally adverse to Electron apps for the usual reasons (CPU/RAM hogs that consistently break OSX's built-in spellcheck/te

There's a cross-platform (win mac lin) app called Lectrote[1], by Andrew Plotkin, built on Electron. For Android I use Fabularium, TextFiction (both can do speech) and IFMapper tool. Can't say anything about iPhone. Speech output is supported in clients Frotz[2], Git[3]. Talking back should be possible with OS methods or Sphinx or whatever. I think speech input for IF case is more about 3rd party tool for controlling terminal with voice. I also thought about one-handed chord keyboards, so you can kick back or walk and listen while typing with one hand. Unfortunately, there're no practical solutions and prices for keyboards like "twiddler" are insane. [1] https://github.com/erkyrath/lectrote/releases [2] https://www.davidkinder.co.uk/frotz.html [3] https://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXprogrammingXglulxXi...