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Inform is an Interactive Fiction (text adventure) game compiler -- it takes
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source code you write and turns it into a game data file which is then
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played using an 'interpreter'. There are several interpreters available
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which can play Inform games on different machines (e.g. frotz, jzip) -- you
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can probably obtain one from the same place you got this package.
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Inform was originally written by Graham Nelson, and you are free to
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redistribute it under certain conditions -- see the file COPYING for
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What's in this distribution?
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The following subdirectories are included in the package:
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src source code for the Inform program
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lib Inform library files
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include selection of useful include files
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manual the online Designer's Manual, in HTML format
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demos some Inform demo games (including the classic 'advent')
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tutor some Inform tutorial files
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docs internal Inform documentation and release notes
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contrib other contributed Inform stuff
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See the file called INSTALL for detailed instructions. But basically, it
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This will install the following (assuming default installation):
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Inform executable in /usr/local/bin
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Inform library modules in /usr/local/share/inform/VERSION/module
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Inform include files in /usr/local/share/inform/VERSION/include
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HTML Designer's Manual in /usr/local/share/inform/manual
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OK, it's installed. Now what?
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Now you want to read the online Designer's Manual. Or, alternatively, you
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could start with one of the tutorials in the tutor directory. After that,
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you're all set to write an IF game! Yay!
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If you have any problems with anything, contact the relevant person
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listed in the AUTHORS file. If you're not sure who that is, contact me
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instead, at the address at the end of this file.
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The Interactive Fiction archive
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There's a good chance that you got this package from the IF archive, or one
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of its mirrors. But if you didn't, you might like to check it out:
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http://www.ifarchive.org
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It has lots of great things: games, hints, solutions, authoring systems
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(like this one), programs for playing the games, tools for making maps, and
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stuff about the late, great Infocom.
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There are also more resources for programming with Inform, including a
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version of the Inform Designer's Manual suitable for printing. See the
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stuff in the programming/inform6 subdirectory.
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The Inform maintainers
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An active community of Inform maintainers exists to fix bugs, implement new
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features and issue new versions of the program. If you'd like to know
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more, or you think you've found a bug, visit them at:
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http://www.inform-fiction.org
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In my tinkerings with Inform over the years (I really *will* write a proper
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game one day), I've had to move the program, libraries and documentation to
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several different Unix machines. Although it wasn't a big problem, it was
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just tedious enough to make me want to automate the configuration and
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installation process, and have everything I needed automatically to hand.
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The result is this package, which should build and install on all Unix,
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Linux and Win32/Cygwin systems.
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Then I thought, hey, maybe other people find it a bit tedious too. So I
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asked Graham for his permission to redistribute Inform, and he gave it.
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Hope it proves useful.
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Many people contributed to the contents of this package. See the file
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AUTHORS for more details.
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If you have any comments or suggestions (or anything else, for that matter)
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feel free to drop me a line. I am:
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Glenn Hutchings <zondo@pillock.freeserve.co.uk>.
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