onyxring
(Jim Fisher)
March 22, 2026, 6:03am
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I’m not quite ready to say much about it, so I thought I’d just post a screen capture:
Please don’t burst my bubble if you’re not as excited about it as I am…
billmaya
(Bill Maya)
March 22, 2026, 1:36pm
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@onyxring - Inform 6 running inside Visual Code? Very cool & very interesting!
When you’re ready to talk more please do.
JoshGrams
(Josh Grams)
March 22, 2026, 1:49pm
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I think this is “new language that compiles to I6” – the left pane is the “beguile” source, the right is the transpiled inform 6, the status pane at the bottom shows it compiling from .bgl to .inf and then to .ulx, and the interpreter shows the game running?
I’m more “piqued” than “interested”. Seems promising, aside my raised eyebrow about another HLL2Inform compiler.
If there’s a Linux binary, or source compilable under Linux, I’ll look w/o preconceived ideas (see above)
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
billmaya
(Bill Maya)
March 22, 2026, 6:44pm
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Josh Grams:
I think this is “new language that compiles to I6” – the left pane is the “beguile” source, the right is the transpiled inform 6, the status pane at the bottom shows it compiling from .bgl to .inf and then to .ulx, and the interpreter shows the game running?
Didn’t catch that detail. Still interesting and would love to learn more.
onyxring
(Jim Fisher)
April 5, 2026, 3:48am
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Another teaser of what I’m working on. Still not ready to say much…
onyxring
(Jim Fisher)
August 17, 2026, 4:59am
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And to close this thread out…
Preramble
Next year I’ll hit the 50th anniversary of the first line of code I ever wrote. It looked something like this:
10 PRINT "JIMMY WAS HERE "; : GOTO 10
I fancy that single line, written on my shiny new TRS-80 model 1, marked an early fork in the path of my life, shaping both my hobbies and my subsequent career. Like others in this forum, I’ve lost count of the languages I’ve used and the applications I’ve authored, and I confess: my lifelong immersion in the craft of coding fed a skep…