Is there a Z-machine interpretor (Interactive Fiction) available that runs on uConsole?

[white-round-square]

raspberry pi is a mainstream arm

[MarkoeZ]

ghehe yeah much has changed since then Most things should just be available in some form.

[L_Huddy]

@white-round-square

bookworm is just a codename for previous debian release.

ditros (debian, arch, etc) are more or less interchangeable and you can install missed depencies or do some magic in most cases. I often unpack debian’s package and run it on arch just because why not if it works.

the problem you are looking is architecture: amd64 vs arm64. and still you can run software compiled for amd64 on arm64 via virtual machines or translators like box64. Or if it’s an opensource – you can recompile it for amd64.

in the end the only question – how much free time and insanity will do you have.

I knew Debian was the source and assumed Bookworm was a version of it, but that’s about all.

Installing and configuring from a different distro or architecture is where I come unstuck and I’d love to have enough knowledge to do what you’re doing. One day, maybe.

Haha, that made me laugh I think a little insanity helps whenever you deal with Linux.

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@L_Huddy

and I’d love to have enough knowledge to do what you’re doing

basically, debian package is an archive so

1. download some modern version of mypackage.deb
2. install deb2targz
3. deb2targz mypackage.deb
4. unpack somewhere mypackage.tar.gz
5. go to some kind of bin/ directory inside
6. run binary

and now you have working portable copy of you package which you don’t need to install into system and can remove any time, works like 4 of 5 times

sometimes you may need to download and drop some my_lib.so inside of package’s lib/ directory, depends on how wierd package is.

[L_Huddy]

Even if only some of the apps work, this is a great idea. Based on my using SUSE at work with an Oracle database many years ago, I was used to dependency hell when you tried to do anything different.

Things have definitely become easier with Linux over the years, but it’s hard to get out of the current ‘Windows’ mode in my head and to think differently.

[d0ktamo]

I’m running Gargoyle to play the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (z3). It also runs most other interactive fiction formats.

[L_Huddy]

Thank you, I’ll look it up

[Herbert]

Is there a way to adjust the background and size of the letters?

[white-round-square]

it’s a CLI application so font size should be set in your terminal program.

try to press ctrl + + and if it won’t work – change your terminal program (or read docs how to change font size). I can recommend alacritty, but it’s up to you to find suitable one.

[Herbert]

I meant the Gargoyle program that d0ktamo mentioned

[white-round-square]

The preferred method is to start a game and then use the shortcut Ctrl +, (Command +, on Mac). This will open Gargoyle’s configuration file in a text editor.

GitHub - garglk/garglk: A cross-platform IO layer for an interactive...

[Herbert]

Thanks for the link. I’m still exploring; I haven’t even had the uConsole for a week…