"Reading is to the
mind what exercise is to the body." Joseph Addison
Free Interactive Fiction
Titles!
or Free Fiction eBooks!
It's All the Same To Us.
 
All Malinche interactive fiction titles work perfectly on all versions of Windows (all the way from Windows 95 straight through to Windows
8 and every version in between) and any version of Mac OS X. In addition, our interactive fiction books are compatible with Linux, Unix, the entire Palm family, Windows Mobile
devices and the latest Windows Phone, most smartphones, the iPod Touch, the iPhone,
your Blackberry and any iPad.
Readers looking to enjoy our
interactive fiction eBooks just need to follow these few simple
steps:
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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.
Windows
Frotz 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. Not compatible with 64 bit systems.
NEW!
Filfre - An alternative to Gargoyle
with excellent text-to-speech support using JAWS cursor review.
Blind users should use Filfre if you're running any 64 bit version
of Windows.
iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch
Interactive Fiction
on the iPad, the iPhone and the iPod Touch- An illustrated
step-by-step guide that will have you enjoying interactive fiction
on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch in just about three minutes.
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
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! Note -
Your story files must be loaded from a Blackberry memory card
you can save/copy files to.
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.
Windows Mobile 5.0/Windows Mobile 6.0/Windows
Mobile 6.5 / Windows Phone 7
Frotz.Net - Try this Frotz Interpreter for your Windows Phone 7
for free and own it for just 99 cents via the Zune Marketplace.
Frostz - Frotz
for Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows Mobile 6.0 and Windows
Mobile 6.5 Will work with older PocketPC 2003 models too!
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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