Inform 2

Inform 2
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Developer	Graham Nelson
Format	Z-code
Interaction style	Parser
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Status	Unmaintained
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Notes	See also: Inform.
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Inform release 2 was announced in June:

 Subject: Second release of Inform
 From: Volker Blasius
 Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 20:51:29 GMT
 Message-ID: <[email protected]>
 
 I am posting this for Graham Nelson, who can't post to the net...
 ...
 My game "Curses", plodding along in the footsteps of the classics, has now
 picked up one more Infocom trait: the original has been superseded, after
 mere months have passed, by Release 8, serial number 930603.  The old
 Release 7 thus becomes a collector's item.  (I wouldn't hold your breath
 waiting for it to become valuable, though.)
 ...
 In addition, "Inform", the compiler which produced "Curses" and which is
 freely available to anyone who wants to write an Infocom story-file for
 themselves, has been re-released in a much more usable and efficient form. 
 Although there are only a few new features (see the manual), many little
 bugs have been corrected and the code has been made more portable (it is in
 ANSI C) and much more efficient.  It used to require about 1M of workspace,
 and now consumes 75K, for instance.  The source code contains commentary to
 help anyone porting the program to their own machines.  It should be quite
 feasible to run Inform on a modest PC.
 ...
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