Technical Development

Tools For discussing IF tools such as: mapping tools, library or packaging software, disassemblers 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. Specifications Many IF development systems have formal specifications, which allow people to develop alternative implementations of the software. Discuss them here. 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. Inform Extensions Discussion for Inform 7 Extensions.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Technical Development category Technical Development	0	1103	February 25, 2019
Publishing your IF (updated 1/21/2014) Technical Development forum-wiki	15	17675	November 6, 2022
Gargoyle 2026.1 Interpreters	28	771	April 24, 2026
New Z-code interpreter: Krebf Interpreters	12	341	April 23, 2026
I6 feature proposal: inline functions in arrays Development Systems inform6	13	147	April 23, 2026
Finding the current room in v5 zcode games Interpreters	18	110	April 23, 2026
Announcing Storyfall - a new IF authoring tool and publishing platform! Development Systems publishing , editor , ai , new-platform , storyfall	131	2548	April 22, 2026
Disabling fancy fonts Interpreters aa-machine	4	103	April 21, 2026
web interpreters and mobile devices Interpreters	7	166	April 21, 2026
Anybody here with Apple ][ experience? Interpreters retro	105	989	April 20, 2026
Glk extension proposals: extra styles and external hyperlinks Specifications glk	14	218	April 20, 2026
Updates on Vezza and MxZVM - z80 z-machine/inform Interpreters	5	199	April 19, 2026
Does anyone have a system to produce different VMs w/RemGlk? Technical Development	2	48	April 19, 2026
Canonical location for Bocfel source? Tools	2	43	April 18, 2026
A-Code Compiler, Level 9 Archive, Specs, game sources: made public! Specifications level9	17	705	April 18, 2026
Working on IF Engine (Dragonfly) Development Systems new-platform	4	169	April 18, 2026
AI Interactive Fiction Web Browser Development Systems ai , split-on-request	3	158	April 17, 2026
What is allowed to read from static memory on Z-machine? Interpreters z-machine	1	46	April 17, 2026
10.2/11.0 Working development version of Dynamic Objects / Dynamic Tables (by Tara McGrew) Inform Extensions	15	114	April 16, 2026
Tool for mapping gamebook paths Tools	0	62	April 14, 2026
How does input parsing in the Å-machine work? Interpreters dialog , å-machine , aa-machine	6	118	April 13, 2026
Optimising RemGlk-rs Interpreters remglk-rs	20	493	April 12, 2026
Are code offset and strings offset available in Inform 6? Development Systems inform6	14	158	April 12, 2026
Help improve the accessibility of Dialog! Interpreters dialog , aa-machine	20	162	April 12, 2026
Is it better to use [30m colors or [90m colors? Technical Development	50	415	April 11, 2026
The lost output stream of the Z-machine Technical Development z-machine	5	119	April 9, 2026
Glk: Image scaling in buffer windows Specifications glk	25	473	April 9, 2026
Cornerstone's VM (was: Cornerstone for Atari) Technical Development infocom , cornerstone	23	620	April 8, 2026
ZILF 1.8 released Development Systems zil	33	1268	April 8, 2026
I didn't know Twine existed, so I built my own branching story editor starting from an office experiment. Did I just waste my time? Development Systems new-platform	45	653	April 8, 2026