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Inventory...
Inform is a compiler to produce Adventure games in the "Infocom" code format,
or "Z-code".
!Zip is an application to play such game files.
Versions of most of these files appeared on three successive cover discs of
Acorn User, but these editions are significantly upgraded from those. For
legal details on the use of Inform, see the introduction to the Designer's
Manual. Roughly speaking, copyright remains with myself but it is freely
usable for any recreational purposes and indeed some commercial ones - in
particular, games produced using it can be sold (subject only to some very
mild restrictions).
Directories:
compiler
source Make-file, and ANSI C source for Inform, portable to most
c machines and compilers
h
manuals Three manuals and a note about reading them
inform The actual compiler, compiled: put this in your Library
directory
games
!Zip The game "interpreter" (don't click on this to run it:
click on a game file instead)
zcode Source for example games written in the Inform language:
Advent, Balances, Toyshop, Shell, Hello Cruel World
h The three include files which make up the Inform library,
needed to compile any (orthodox) Inform game
zgames Actual game files: click on these to play, once the !Zip
application has been seen. The games supplied are...
Advent, Balances, Curses and Toyshop
!Test A useful little RISCOS tool which runs through test files
of commands, feeding them one at a time into a game and
stopping at "breakpoints". Works in a horrid way - it
inserts the commands directly into the keyboard buffer!
Inside the directory is an example file of commands, a
solution to Advent called T_Advent. (See the Help file.)
Graham Nelson
Oxford University
14/10/94