David Cornelson of TextFyre has embarked on an ambitious plan to
create a new open source virtual machine, FyreVM. This new
VM will run Interactive Fiction games (e.g. Zork and newer works written in Inform) on a dozen
different mobile platforms such as Android, WinPhone 7, Kindle,
iPhone, iPad, Blackberry. The goal of FireVM is to take
advantage of specific user interface capabilities on each
platform, whether it's the touch screen of Android tablets or the
5 way button on the Kindle.
To help with this project, TextFyre has started a fundraising effort on Kickstarter with a goal of …
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