Ancient Inform versions (pre 6)

[Piergiorgio_d_errico]

brief history of the former research:

from Wedding.txt

Version 1.00 (approx 19/7/96) - using out-of-date compiler & library from a
1994 Acorn User disk. The first properly working version, and one of two
versions submitted for the AU interactive fiction competition. Everything
works okay on !Zip, but !Zip2000 crashes if you try to speak to anyone,
which makes it rather tricky to complete the game.

The 1994 AU CD isn’t in Archive.org, but there’s an april 95 CD:

https://archive.org/download/cdrom-riscos-au-cd1

whose indeed contain this file:

ACORNUSER/DISCS/ACORNUSER/UPDATES/INFORM		1995-02-26 21:05:40	1001264

from the timestamp, if isn’t Inform 4, is an early Inform 5, surely predating all those in the IF-Archive, save MPW_Inform5.4.sit.bin

the file is in that archimedes ZIP compression format… good luck !

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.