Inform 3

Inform 3
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Developer	Graham Nelson
Format	Z-code
Interaction style	Parser
System
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Latest version	19 November 1993
Status
Implements
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Multimedia support
License
Notes	See also: Inform.
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Inform release 3 appeared in November:

 Subject: New Releases of Inform and Curses
 From: Graham Nelson
 Date: 19 Nov 93 11:03:02 GMT
 Message-ID: <[email protected]>
 
 ...
 Inform has been heavily re-written and improved.  Many bugs have been
 fixed; it is now 3 to 6 times faster; there are numerous new features.
 (See the modification history in the source code, and the new edition of the
 manual, for details.)
 
 The main problem with using Inform has always been that ANSI C is portable
 in the same way that America is crime-free, i.e., despite everyone's best
 intentions...  The code has been reorganised, and much more carefully
 written as regards size of integers, pointer arithmetic, file naming
 conventions, order of bytes and so on.  It has an option to make all its
 old huge global arrays (a problem on IBM PCs, for instance) allocate
 dynamically.
 ...
 (Usenet post via Google)

Release 3 included source code for three demo games: dejavu.inf (toy game), hellow.inf (hello-world), and shell.inf (a minimal game template).

(Graham Nelson: "People didn’t really use Inform much until around Inform 3"; ref)