#frotz
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #frotz from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #frotz
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-25 17:09 UTCNo measured public usage for #frotz in the last 7 days. That is a real result, and a good one to know: this hashtag is wide open right now. We show a dash before we ever show a made-up number. Browse the trending index for tags with live measurements.
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measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-25 17:09 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-25 17:09 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 13 public posts (spanning ~58540 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 08:00
Languages: English (11) · German (2)
Avg boosts / post: 3.2
Top of the latest posts
Hah! I managed to get xfrotz to have a variable sized window. Well, you can only change it via xrdb, but nevertheless! https://codeberg.org/root42/frotz/commit/4cf10a620816a7e40e7962243f0c4abc04f418af Combined with a nice, high resolution b
If I could convert an #epub to an #infocom "game" file, then that #ebook could be read on any device with a #frotz interpreter... with the ability to save your place by... saving... just like you would in a #textAdventure
Anyone else out there interested in classic #text-based #InteractiveFiction? Like the old #Infocom #games. I know there's an #IF community out there — are you on Mastodon? #TextAdventures #AdventureGames #Zork #Inform #xyzzy #ClassicGames #
What “frotz” means
WikipediaThe Z-machine is a virtual machine that was developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank in 1979 and used by Infocom for its text adventure games. Infocom compiled game code to files containing Z-machine instructions and could therefore port its text adventures to a new platform simply by writing a Z-machine implementation for that platform. With the large number of incompatible home computer systems in use at the time, this was an important advantage over using native code or developing a compiler fo
“Z-machine” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#frotz across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #frotz straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/frotz