I have done a quick’n dirty comparision between metrocenter and punyInform. my very provisional impression is that metro84 is good for porting old inform works (a boon for people with I5.x WIP still around…) and puny is good for new works. Together gives new life to the Z machine 3.
(IMVHO, Inform 5.x isn’t to be considered obsolete…)
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
Yes, I absolutely agree to this.
Reply to myself, but I think I can be excused, because AFAICT at least a fragment of actual Infocom ZIP interpreter indeed was floating around (it’s the terminal routine for CP/M machines, whose back then was often distribuited as overlay source code because of the huge variety of terminals in the CP/M world):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10czEFkd3R8vMgZkO3Ee5TmI-5u7q8z0_/view
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
I recently tried out Raspberry Pi Desktop for ScottKit and Inform compilers on Asus eee PC. Looks good. 512 MB RAM, 4 GB SSD. I run it on 32 GB USB Flashdrive. Really slow booting at 6 minutes, but it works.
note that not few USB flashdrive/pendrive are rather slow… tried with a faster flashdrive ?
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
The bottleneck is probably the bandwidth of USB2.
Edit:
I repeat the process using 32 GB SD card, and the boot process is down to 3 minutes.
