I recently got my very first cell phone, a Sanyo SCP-2700–the cheapest available to me. It has a full QWERTY keyboard and can run J2ME apps, so of course I wanted to play IF on it.
It seems my only option is ZeeME. I can’t use ZaxMidlet or JFrotz, because unsigned apps can’t access the filesystem. ZeeME is different because the story file is included in the jar.
But I have run into a couple of problems with ZeeME on my phone. I’ve contacted the author but had no response. I was hoping someone here might have the necessary technical know-how. I have only rudimentary Java knowledge and know precious little about J2ME. So far I’ve tried the Minizork that comes with ZeeME by default, as well as Christminster, Lost Pig, and Risorgimento Represso.
The biggest problem is that indented lines vanish completely. So for example INVENTORY just prints out a few blank lines. I’ve seen a comment online that the Sanyo SCP-6780 does the same thing. I don’t know how Inform does this indenting; are they tab characters maybe?
I have a few other issues, but that’s the biggest one. Any ideas?