Technical Development

Specifications Many IF development systems have formal specifications, which allow people to independent or alternative implementations of the software. Discuss them here. Interpreters Written a new interpreter for an IF system? Porting one to a new OS? Having trouble installing one? This is the category for you. Inform Extensions Discussion for Inform 7 Extensions. Tools For discussing IF tools such as: mapping tools, library or packaging software, disassemblers Development Systems Working on a new IF development system? Publishing an update to one? Got a question about hacking the code of the compiler? Here’s the place to discuss all these and more.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Technical Development category Technical Development	1	247	February 25, 2019
Publishing your IF (updated 1/21/2014) Technical Development	15	13630	August 13, 2018
NLP / PEG and other parser approaches Technical Development parser	4	44	July 10, 2020
Parchment broken by split screen from scott2zil Interpreters parchment	4	17	July 10, 2020
Z-Machine undefined behavior Specifications z-machine	29	636	July 10, 2020
I6 metaverbs interrupting regular verbs Development Systems	2	37	July 10, 2020
dMagnetic- A Magnetic Scrolls Interpreter Interpreters	59	2088	July 8, 2020
ISHML: New JavaScript Library for Parser IF Development Systems javascript , ishml	34	1039	July 8, 2020
Having trouble with Guncho Technical Development	4	100	July 7, 2020
Sadako: a new hypertext adventure engine Development Systems	41	999	July 6, 2020
Adventuron, a new text adventure engine Development Systems adventuron	11	2531	July 5, 2020
Announcing Elm Narrative Engine Version 5.0 Release Development Systems elm-narrative-engine	8	303	July 5, 2020
Inform 6 reference addendum (draft) Development Systems	10	183	July 5, 2020
Automated testing Development Systems	5	125	July 5, 2020
Scott2zil - a tool for converting SA-games to ZIL Tools scottadams	12	200	July 2, 2020
Metrocenter '84 - Inform 6 optimized for 8-bit targets Development Systems inform6 , retroinform , metrocenter84 , 8bit	38	733	June 30, 2020
Vorple Multimedia by Juhana Leinonen Inform Extensions	8	1382	June 28, 2020
Tips for making an extension? Inform Extensions	8	118	June 26, 2020
New ScummGlk engine added to ScummVM Interpreters	37	2492	June 23, 2020
Z-machine in BASIC Interpreters	19	590	June 21, 2020
Fabularium - Android GLK + TADS HTML IF interpreter Interpreters	35	11495	June 21, 2020
Vorple version 3.2 released Development Systems vorple	7	462	June 20, 2020
Glulx interpreters on retro machines? Interpreters	5	183	June 19, 2020
Can Inform trigger AppleScript events or otherwise communicate with an Arduino? Inform Extensions	6	180	June 9, 2020
New Scott Adams format interpreter "PerlScott" Interpreters	22	1291	June 9, 2020
Borogove: Online editor for Vorple, Inform, Hugo and Dialog Tools vorple , inform6 , hugo , inform7 , borogove , dialog	40	1357	June 8, 2020
Trouble with vorple on itch.io with safari Interpreters vorple	11	117	June 5, 2020
Color in Glulx again Interpreters	6	132	June 3, 2020
Gnome-inform7 6L38/6M62 IDE now running on modern Ubuntu & Fedora OS Development Systems	73	1318	June 3, 2020
Text Editors for IF Interpreters	32	8550	June 2, 2020