I am trying to locate a copy of Erik Temple’s Glimmr-based animated title page demo, as described in this blog post.
I got a 404 at the two URLs specified for the compiled demo file and a source/assets zip, and the Wayback Machine has a capture of the file from last December that is just a 404 error, so I don’t think it’s a temporary problem.
Does anyone happen to have copies of them? (@Erik_Temple, are you out there?)
I probably have it. I may have to look around a little to find it.
OLD OUTDATED BIT OF POST - Just beware. I found going fullscreen with the graphics confounds Lectrote. Zarf said this feature was too out of spec to support last time I asked about it.
UPDATE EDIT - I tried Leadlight Gamma in Lectrote again today, and it worked. I guess updates to Lectrote in the interim have eliminated whatever circumstances previously caused it to bork when interacting with the full screen graphics.
This particular combination no longer appears to be a problem.
-Wade
Here you go. Both the source, and a compiled version:
Animated Title Page source.zip (578.7 KB)
Animated Title Page.gblorb (1.1 MB)
This would all be back in 6G60. Glimmr, or bits of it I used, required a lot of work to get going in 6M62.
-Wade
Thanks a lot, @severedhand!
I couldn’t find anything related to the Glimmr extensions by Erik Temple at the IF Archive, either. Erik, if you’re out there, do you object to the existing materials being rounded up and submitted there?
For anyone’s reference:
Erik’s Glimmr-i7x github repo archiving what had been on Google Code.
Downloads from the old Glimmr Google Code site, courtesy of the Wayback Machine:
Oh i want this so bad but when i download files is says can’t find or wrong verson could someon e send me a link to the updated correct files?
Which file(s) were you looking for? Are you saying that the download links from Zed aren’t working?
Glimmr was for Inform 8.5/6G60 from 2010. It never worked in Inform 9.1/6L02 (from 2014) or subsequent versions. So if by “updated correct files” you mean ones that could work with modern Inform, they don’t exist.
My links above work and the compiled examples can still be run and show you what one used to be able to do. Or if you can get 8.5/6G60 running you could use them. Doing so might not be so bad on Windows (I don’t know), but per the note here versions of the Inform compiler prior to 9.3/6M62 are incompatible with Linux kernels prior to 4.11 in 2017, so on a modern machine you’d need a VM or to run the Windows version in Wine. I don’t know about Macs.
Actually in 6m62, I have Glimmr running in my WIP, supporting a graphic automap. In the GitHub extensions, the Glimmr set in 9.3 has notes saying it was updated for 6m62 by Dannii.
I don’t recall it being trivial (by my standards) to get going in my situation but it can work. And you can choose 9.3 in the current version of the Inform app, whereas whatever 6g60 was, you can’t.
-Wade
doh, and now I remember this from four years ago…
Yes, these four Glimmr extensions compile under 9.3/6M62.
Thanks, Wade.