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Revision as of 23:42, 30 September 2008

  by Jon Welch

License

Please see the individual components' websites, as they are separately licensed. The Inform / Z-Machine v1.1 (Infocom v3) Development Environment consists of:

BBC Micro Z-Machine v1.1 (Infocom v3) Interpreter by Jon Welch
BeebEm for Windows maintained by Mike Wyatt
Inform 6.15 by Graham Nelson

Getting Started

• Download the development environment archive below.
• Unzip the archive to a folder on your computer.
• Use your preferred text editor (or an IF Editor) to view the source code of the sample v3 Inform 6.15 game, MyGame1.inf.
• At a command prompt, run the sample batch file MyGame1.bat to automatically compile the Inform 6.15 source code, wrap it into a BBC Micro disk image and run the emulator & Z-Machine Interpreter with the resulting v3 Z-code file.

Now you can start building your own game! You can make a start by reading the Inform Beginner's Guide, as well as the Inform Designer's Manual 3rd and 4th edition which are supplied in the docs folder. Roger Firth's Inform 6: FAQ also contains lots of useful information.

For support developing your game with the Inform 6.15 language, the community at rec.arts.int-fiction should be your first port of call. If you're having difficulty or have found any issues with the BeebEm emulator, the BBC Micro Z-Machine Interpreter or any other part of the Inform / Z-Machine v1.1 (Infocom v3) Development Environment, post to the Retro Software forum:

Discuss Inform / Z-Machine v1.1 (Infocom v3) Development Environment

Downloads

Inform / Z-Machine v1.1 (Infocom v3) Development Environment - Windows
First release.
http://www.retrosoftware.co.uk/informz3devenv.zip (7.5 MB)

Featured Projects

If you're developing an Inform / Z-Machine v1.1 (Infocom v3) game, let us know! Retro Software can provide you with plenty of web tools like a bug tracker, wiki page and dedicated forum, or we can just link to it from here. Either way, we want to here about it.

Change Log

First release