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- Inform is a compiler to produce Adventure games in the "Infocom" code format,
- or "Z-code".
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- !Zip is an application to play such game files.
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- Versions of most of these files appeared on three successive cover discs of
- Acorn User, but these editions are significantly upgraded from those. For
- legal details on the use of Inform, see the introduction to the Designer's
- Manual. Roughly speaking, copyright remains with myself but it is freely
- usable for any recreational purposes and indeed some commercial ones - in
- particular, games produced using it can be sold (subject only to some very
- mild restrictions).
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- Directories:
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- compiler
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- source Make-file, and ANSI C source for Inform, portable to most
- c machines and compilers
- h
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- manuals Three manuals and a note about reading them
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- inform The actual compiler, compiled: put this in your Library
- directory
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- games
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- !Zip The game "interpreter" (don't click on this to run it:
- click on a game file instead)
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- zcode Source for example games written in the Inform language:
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- Advent, Balances, Toyshop, Shell, Hello Cruel World
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- h The three include files which make up the Inform library,
- needed to compile any (orthodox) Inform game
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- zgames Actual game files: click on these to play, once the !Zip
- application has been seen. The games supplied are...
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- Advent, Balances, Curses and Toyshop
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- !Test A useful little RISCOS tool which runs through test files
- of commands, feeding them one at a time into a game and
- stopping at "breakpoints". Works in a horrid way - it
- inserts the commands directly into the keyboard buffer!
- Inside the directory is an example file of commands, a
- solution to Advent called T_Advent. (See the Help file.)
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- Graham Nelson
- Oxford University
- 14/10/94
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