Inform 1

Inform 1
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Developer	Graham Nelson
Format	Z-code
Interaction style	Parser
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Status	Unmaintained
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Graham Nelson announced the first release of Inform (with no version number, but considered "Inform 1" in retrospect) on RAIF in May 1993:

 Subject: Announcement: INFORM
 From: Graham Nelson
 Date: Sun, 9 May 1993 18:20:53 GMT
 Message-ID: <[email protected]>
 
 Infocom game story files are as near to a universal format as we have for 
 interactive fiction games, but until now it has been very difficult to 
 construct them, and I am not aware that anyone has previously created them 
 outside of Infocom itself.
 
 I have written such a compiler, called "Inform", the ANSI C source of 
 which is public domain.  It is not a marvellously well-written program, 
 but it does work, and it is documented.
 ...
 (Usenet post via Google)

This version generated only Z-code V3 game files. Nelson also released the first version of Curses on this day, as Inform's first game.

(This grew out of an unpublished project originally called 'zass'. ref)

See also

• Inform