Technical Development

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. Specifications Many IF development systems have formal specifications, which allow people to independent or alternative implementations of the software. Discuss them here. 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.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Technical Development category Technical Development	0	1069	February 25, 2019
Publishing your IF (updated 1/21/2014) Technical Development forum-wiki	15	17361	November 6, 2022
Which characters cannot appear in http, https, or mailto URLs? Development Systems dialog	16	129	March 20, 2025
Glk extension proposal: images in buffer windows Specifications glk	22	593	March 18, 2025
Lectrote 1.5.0, now with automatic transcripting Interpreters lectrote	22	489	March 17, 2025
Updating the Z-Machine Standard Documents Specifications z-machine	347	7712	March 9, 2025
Building IF tools with Cosmopolitan Libc; possible game-changer? Technical Development	15	339	March 6, 2025
Somebody's choice-based game hardware project Technical Development	33	619	March 5, 2025
Infocom version 6 and Blorb file compatibility Technical Development	2	101	March 4, 2025
Never Gives Up Her Dead is making iplayif choke Interpreters	10	203	March 2, 2025
Infocom's own Unix z-code terp running Interpreters infocom , z-machine	6	192	February 25, 2025
MQBN 1.5 released Technical Development twine2 , sugarcube2	2	138	February 24, 2025
Specification of Level 9 A-Code Specifications	108	5016	February 18, 2025
Status Line v3.0 released Interpreters pico-8 , z-machine	1	96	February 16, 2025
Unix Frotz 2.55 released Interpreters	14	381	February 15, 2025
Training a language model to play parser games Tools ai	13	305	February 13, 2025
Fictionarium, successor to Fabularium Interpreters	65	1861	December 29, 2024
Starting to use the Babel tool Tools babel	2	116	February 6, 2025
Using anchor tags vs button tags - HTML, screen readers and accessibility Development Systems	17	140	February 4, 2025
RemGlk Z-machine interpreter Tools	4	88	February 2, 2025
Optimising RemGlk-rs Interpreters	7	79	February 1, 2025
Infocom Interpreter for MacOs Classic possible bug Interpreters	1	70	January 28, 2025
What happens if you type an unrecognized character into the Z-machine? Specifications	6	131	January 28, 2025
TXD and ZTools Tools	23	1216	January 28, 2025
Status of Glk Z-Machine interpreters Interpreters glk , z-machine	10	126	January 26, 2025
Is iplayif sitegen broken? Interpreters sitegen , parchment	12	195	January 23, 2025
Downloaded Gargoyle - How to run a z file in Gargoyle? Interpreters	4	84	January 21, 2025
Uploading third-party save files to Parchment Tools parchment	6	329	January 20, 2025
InfoZip - Z-code interpreter for Psion palmtops Interpreters	5	172	January 19, 2025
Need clarification on dictionary separators vs punctuation Specifications z-machine	7	75	January 19, 2025