Platform respectability
iPhone runs doom, that’s been established.
A lot more retrogaming props are to be give for Frotz, a z-machine implementation.
The omission of the latter on the ubiquitous S60 continues to puzzle. The availability of full keyboards (eg. E70) and adaptive text input would be a boon for adventurers caught in the rush hour municipal traffic.
(Yes. Obviously I ought to quit bitching and port an interpreter, but the threshold to become prolific on the smartphone platform remains high, even after the addition of a standard C library. Maybe after I pick up an Intel-based laptop, since the S60 SDK seems to be Mac-hostile.)
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