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by anthk 218 days ago
No is not a text adventure game; it just runs under the ZMachine. You have several other examples at IFDB, such as Tetris, Robots Find Kitten, Madbomber... I did internally as a translation at https://caja.texto-plano.xyz/anthk/zgames/spa/trek/ in order to provide a quick translated Trek game. Yes, I could use some Basic SST port but this made the game universally playable. It isn't a IF game because it doesn't use the INFSP6 Spanish grammar (the counterpart to the English Inform6 one). That's it, it uses raw Inform instructions.

The game is not at CAAD because they woudn't accept as it a text adventure game.

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Cool. Thanks for sharing it! I am going to play. Regarding instructions, I will find my way, but other less computer savvy users might need a README there. See you in USENET!
You can use Frotz or anything else, and as for the help, it's builtin both in Spanish and English per game edition.

https://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/ztrek.z5 English version.

For instance: frotz ztrek.z5

Or Winfrotz under Windows, or Lectrote for any OS.

By pressing '9' you get the online help, in any language. Have fun.