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Inform / Infocom interpreters for Haiku / BeOS

• What is this?
  
• How to Use
  
• About the interpreters
  • Frotz
    
  • Nitfol
    
  • Glulxe and Git
    
  • Tads
    
  • JACL
    
  • Hugo
    
  • Alan
    
  • Magnetic & Level 9
    
  
  
• Finding games
  
• Permalink to this pages
  

What is this?

Some command lines tools for running Interactive Fictions games, also known as textual adventures, for the most commonly used gaming systems.

Those applications may require ncurses to run. (A basic version of this ncurses is included in the archive)

How to Use

• Download this package and unzip it on the desktop.
  
• Run the install.sh script which will install everything on your system (into /boot/home/config/bin)
  
• click on ifiction.sh to start a wrapper which will open a load game dialog, and select the game you wish (you can test the sample games included)
  
• You can also drag and drop game files onto the ifiction.sh icon to automatically start the game with the correct interpreter.
  

About the interpreters

Frotz

A z-machine interpreter for Infocom and Inform systems.

• frotz is for reading z3, z4, z5 and z8 games.
  

Nitfol

• 'nitfol' is another z-machine interpreter, which can read zblorb files (but not the cover arts inside them).
  

Glulxe and Git

Some glulx interpreters for Infocom and Inform systems again.

• Glulxe is for reading blb, ulx and zblorb games.
  
• Git can read the same formats as Glulxe, but it's supposed to be faster.
  
• The glkterm versions should display better but there are some issues with accented letters in some languages.
  
• The cheapterm versions will display the accented letters correctly, but the interface is less nice (no fixed status line)
  

Tads

• Frob is the tads2 and tads3 interpreter for .gam and .t3 files. More on Tads on the ifwiki page.
  

JACL

• 'jacl' is an interpreter for the JACL game system.
  

Hugo

• 'he' is the Hugo interpreter for .hex games. More on Hugo on the ifwiki page.
  

Alan

• 'arun' is an Alan interpreter for .acd games (v2 only). More on Alan on the ifwiki page.
  

Magnetic & Level 9

• 'magnetic' and 'level9' are interpreters for the commercial games from Magnetic Scrolls and Level 9.
  They are only using cheapterm for the output (no status line, and line break may occur in a word).
  

Finding games

• http://ifarchive.org/
• You can even run some of them in your browser using http://parchment.toolness.com/
• http://ifwiki.org
• http://ifdb.tads.org

Permalink to this pages

• http://ifiction.free.fr/index.php?id=haiku

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Last modified on Thu Aug 5 14:29:50 2010

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