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All Malinche Interactive Fiction Titles Work Perfectly on all versions of Windows (including Windows 7) and any version of Mac OS X. In addition, our interactive fiction books are compatible with Linux, Unix, the entire Palm family including the latest Palm Pre, Windows Mobile devices, most smartphones, Classic iPods, the iPhone, the iPhone Touch, the Nintendo DS and most Blackberry phones!
Windows and Mac users don't need to download any interpreters (think "ebook readers") anymore; every Malinche title installs everything needed automatically. If you're loading our interactive fiction titles on anything other than Windows or Apple computers keep on reading.
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Malinche's interactive fiction titles are story files which are loaded via an "interpreter" (again, think "ebook reader" that loads the story file and provides the interface for your experience inside the story.
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Help yourself to as many interpreters as you wish. They're all free and all for you.You may want to download Gargoyle for your brand new Windows 7 laptop, CliFrotz so you can enjoy our interactive fiction ebooks on your Palm Pre while on the bus commuting to work. Save all the programs you want to a relevant folder such as "Malinche"
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Run the file you downloaded to install/extract all necessary files. Then run the interpreter.
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Smartphone and PDA Users should consult their owner's manual on how to load software on your device. Cool thing: You can synchronize your saved game on your Smartphone or PDA with your desktop or laptop and resume your game where you left off on either computer!
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You can load all of our story files from your interpreter and begin to play them!
Interactive Fiction Interpreter List
Windows
Gargoyle - Don't let the name spook you - Gargoyle is the best Windows-based interpreter of interactive fiction hands down. The screen colors and fonts are very friendly to the reading eye.
WindowsFrotz Text-to-Speech - Designed specifically for the blind, this special version of WindowsFrotz speaks the text as the game generates it. This super-good interpreter makes our titles truly accessible for the visually impaired.
Apple Macintosh
Zoom - An excellent GUI interpreter for Mac OS X users. Full of features, Howard highly recommends Zoom as the interpreter-of-choice for the Apple Mac.
OS X Frotz - Frotz for the Macintosh running OS X under Terminal. While I highly suggest Zoom, Unix fans will prefer this interpreter. Just type "frotz ~/folder/filename.z8" to run your story after installation.
Cell Phones/Smart Phones/Tablets
NEW! ZaxMidlet Installer - Play text adventure games and Interactive Fiction on Your Blackberry! The ZaxMidlet Over The Air (OTA) Installer is here. Which one to use? They both do the same thing but the OTA installer is probably easier to use because you just need to surf to this page from your Blackberry, click on the OTA installer link and you're all set to enjoy Interactive Fiction on your Blackberry!
Frotz UIQ - Plays your Malinche interactive fiction titles on most Symbian-based phones from Motorola, Nokia and Sony Ericsson. At last count that was pretty much any advanced phone.
iPhone Frotz - Enjoy all of Malinche's text adventure games and Interactive Fiction titles on your iPhone and iPod Touch. Comes with some free (and mostly boring) games. Transferring your Malinche interactive fiction titles to your iPhone is easy thanks to FileMagnet or good old fashioned FTP over your own home or office network.
Windows Mobile 5.0/Windows Mobile 6.0/Windows Mobile 6.5
Frostz - Frotz for modern PocketPC 2003, Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows Mobile 6.0 and Windows Mobile 6.5 If you bought your PocketPC or Windows Mobile Device in the past three years -- try this first.
The Palm Family
CellarDoor - The best interactive fiction interpreter for modern Palm devices. CellarDoor is based on CliFrotz (see next entry) but appears to run faster and adds some more nifty features. To install -- unzip this file on your PC then Hotsync the PRC file to your Palm and you're off.
CliFrotz - Not just for the Sony Clie anymore, this version will run under PalmOS4 or later and loads our standard story files - no converting needed. If CellarDoor *(see previous entry) doesn't do it for you then this one will.
Linux/UNIX
RedHatFrotz - This is an RPM you install to Red Hat Linux. Linux geeks never need instructions.
Unix Frotz - Standard .tar file. Extract, compile and run. This works for all version of Linux too. UNIX geeks never need instructions either.
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