Inform - A Design System for Interactive Fiction!

[nasser]

Background:
There have been a few ports here of interpreters for playing Interactive Fiction games of the z-code type:

• frotz: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=186007
• gargoyle: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=223455

Such games can now be created directly on the Kindles! Inform is a command line compiler to create such z-code games.

Original Author: Graham Nelson (1993)

Source:

• The executable and supporting files were extracted from the Debian Jessie repository(maintainer:Jan Christoph Nordholz - https://packages.debian.org/jessie/inform) and re-packaged for the Kindles. The armel version is needed to run on Kindles(https://packages.debian.org/jessie/a...nform/download).
• The frotz interpreter is a Kindle port by fvek (See 1st link above).

Version: 6.31

Website: http://inform-fiction.org/

Compatibility: Should work on all jailbroken kindles from Kindle Touch onwards.

Tested ok on: pw1, pw3, kt3

Requires:

• jailbroken kindle
• KUAL
• kterm terminal emulator.
• frotz interpreter (see the 1st link above), for running the compiled z-code games. This is included in the package here.
  

Installation and usage:

• Extract zip into /mnt/us/extensions/.
• Select inform6 from the KUAL menu. This opens kterm in the folder /mnt/us/extensions/inform6/.
• Create your own inform story file(a normal text file) with .inf extension and save in the inform6/src/ folder. You can use a command line editor like vi or nano. For help on creating story files, syntax, etc., see links below.
• Compile by running script: ./inf.sh <story file name> from the inform6/ folder. The compiled z-code file with .z5 extension is created in the inform6/ folder.
• Run the compiled z-code game with the script ./frz.sh <story file name>.z5. In the game, type q to quit and return to kterm.

Sample game source files:
There are several sample source files in the src/ folder. Try compiling and running them. Example: ./inf.sh advent. This creates the game file of the original adventure by Crowther and Woods.

Documentation:
Some readmes are in the doc/ folder.

Further reading:

• Inform Designer's Manual: http://inform-fiction.org/manual/download_dm4.html
• Inform Beginner's Guide: http://inform-fiction.org/manual/about_ibg.html
• IF Theory Reader: http://inform-fiction.org/manual/if_theory.html
• A more advanced, "natural language" version: http://inform7.com/ (This still uses the inform6 compiler internally)

[encol]

Thanks for sharing!

[PoP]

Originally Posted by nasser

...the game file of the original adventure by Crowther and Woods...

Thanks for sharing (though I don't really fancy to compile it on the Kindle). I played ADVENT on a TTY terminal around '73. It was pure joy to succeed with a perfect score

Spoiler:

after getting the last point at Witt's end!