Nitfol is in the process of being rewritten in Nemerle. There are now pre-releases available.
You will need:
After installing, you should be able to double-click on a .z5, .z8, .zblorb, .blb, .ulx, .gblorb file. Remove by using Add/Remove Program Files
You will need:
You can obtain all these packages from Debian testing/unstable:
apt-get install libglpk-dev libgtk2.0-cil libgconf2.0-cil pkg-config
You should be able to run build/Nitfol.exe from the tar distribution with a game file as the sole argument.