4 Inform is an Interactive Fiction (text adventure) game compiler -- it takes
5 source code you write and turns it into a game data file which is then
6 played using an 'interpreter'. There are several interpreters available
7 which can play Inform games on different machines (e.g. frotz, jzip) -- you
8 can probably obtain one from the same place you got this package.
10 Inform was originally written by Graham Nelson, and you are free to
11 redistribute it under certain conditions -- see the file COPYING for
14 What's in this distribution?
15 ============================
17 The following subdirectories are included in the package:
19 src source code for the Inform program
20 lib Inform library files
21 include selection of useful include files
22 manual the online Designer's Manual, in HTML format
23 demos some Inform demo games (including the classic 'advent')
24 tutor some Inform tutorial files
25 docs internal Inform documentation and release notes
26 contrib other contributed Inform stuff
31 See the file called INSTALL for detailed instructions. But basically, it
38 This will install the following (assuming default installation):
40 Inform executable in /usr/local/bin
41 Inform library modules in /usr/local/share/inform/VERSION/module
42 Inform include files in /usr/local/share/inform/VERSION/include
43 HTML Designer's Manual in /usr/local/share/inform/manual
45 OK, it's installed. Now what?
46 ==============================
48 Now you want to read the online Designer's Manual. Or, alternatively, you
49 could start with one of the tutorials in the tutor directory. After that,
50 you're all set to write an IF game! Yay!
55 If you have any problems with anything, contact the relevant person
56 listed in the AUTHORS file. If you're not sure who that is, contact me
57 instead, at the address at the end of this file.
59 The Interactive Fiction archive
60 ===============================
62 There's a good chance that you got this package from the IF archive, or one
63 of its mirrors. But if you didn't, you might like to check it out:
65 http://www.ifarchive.org
67 It has lots of great things: games, hints, solutions, authoring systems
68 (like this one), programs for playing the games, tools for making maps, and
69 stuff about the late, great Infocom.
71 There are also more resources for programming with Inform, including a
72 version of the Inform Designer's Manual suitable for printing. See the
73 stuff in the programming/inform6 subdirectory.
75 The Inform maintainers
76 ======================
78 An active community of Inform maintainers exists to fix bugs, implement new
79 features and issue new versions of the program. If you'd like to know
80 more, or you think you've found a bug, visit them at:
87 This package was originally created by Glenn Hutchings to address the
88 tedium of gathering the program, libraries, and documentation for
89 several different Unix machines. It received blessing from Graham
90 Nelson. The result is a package that automates the configuration and
91 installation process. It should build and install on all Unix, Linux,
92 and Win32/Cygwin system.
94 This package is an ideal base for creating pre-compiled packages in the
95 style of Debian .debs, Redhat .rpms and similar schemes as well as build
96 trees like FreeBSD ports, NetBSD pkgsrc, and Gentoo portage.
98 Many people contributed to the contents of this package. See the file
99 AUTHORS for more details.
101 This package is hosted at Github:
103 https://github.com/DavidGriffith/inform6unix
105 Feel free to hack on it and send me improvements!
110 If you have any comments or suggestions (or anything else, for that matter)
111 feel free to drop me a line. I am:
113 David Griffith <dave@661.org>.