Fizmo version 0.6.5 - How to Download and Install on Mac OS X
Sunday the 21st of March, 2010

    version 0.6.5

      View the most recent changes for the fizmo port at: fizmo.darwinports.com/diff
      Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for fizmo.
      The raw portfile for fizmo 0.6.5 is located here:
      http://fizmo.darwinports.com/dports/games/fizmo/Portfile
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      The fizmo Portfile 59948 2009-10-27 22:58:09Z jmr macports.org $

      PortSystem 1.0

      Name: fizmo
      Version: 0.6.5
      Category: games
      Maintainers: spellbreaker.org:Christoph.Ender
      Description: Console-based Z-Machine interpreter for Infocom games.
      Long Description: Fizmo is a Z-Machine interpreter (Fizmo Interprets Z-Machine Opcodes) which allows you to run Infocom- and most other Z-Machine based games -- except version 6 -- on POSIX-like systems which provide a ncursesw (note the 'w') library. It has been successfully compiled on Debian based Linux, Mac OS X (with MacPorts providing ncursesw) and Windows (using Cygwin and a self-compiled ncursesw library). This is a console-style application, meaning that it runs in textmode and does not provide any GUI whatsoever. For more information about Infocom and interactive fiction, see the 'New to IF' section at http://www.ifarchive.org. Games are available from http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXgamesXzcode.html
      Homepage: http://spellbreaker.org/~chrender/fizmo/
      Platform: darwin linux
      Master Sites: http://spellbreaker.org/~chrender/fizmo/source/

      Checksums: md5 4284a5c79969172459789d58d358d83b sha1 4c66725e35ab17cd3c679da1027d8118ae607a19 rmd160 e6b4ed9a78d510b6b1485cdd322ff3c55f493554

      depends_lib port:ncursesw port:libsdl_sound port:libsndfile port:libxml2

      post-patch {
      reinplace "s|/opt/local|${prefix}|g" ${worksrcpath}/config.macports.mk
      reinplace "s|/usr/include/libxml2|${prefix}/include/libxml2|g" ${worksrcpath}/config.macports.mk
      }
      use_configure no
      build.args CONFIG_FILE=config.macports.mk


    If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.

    Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:


      %  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/fizmo
      % sudo port install fizmo
      Password:
    You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

      ---> Fetching fizmo
      ---> Verifying checksum for fizmo
      ---> Extracting fizmo
      ---> Configuring fizmo
      ---> Building fizmo with target all
      ---> Staging fizmo into destroot
      ---> Installing fizmo
    - Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using fizmo with these commands:
      %  man fizmo
      % apropos fizmo
      % which fizmo
      % locate fizmo

     Where to find more information:

    Darwin Ports



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