Re: New Mac port of Inform


Mon, 27 Mar 1995 11:57:09 -0500

Excerpts from netnews.rec.arts.int-fiction: 26-Mar-95 New Mac port of
Inform Robert A. Pelak@hannah.m (705)

> - Interpreter support. Inform can now create z-code files that,
> with a simple double click, can be run on Greg Ewing's ZeX
> interpreter.

Is this just a matter of creating a data file with the correct
type/creator code?

(I ask because I keep thinking I should write a *morally correct* Z-code
interpreter shell -- that is, one which can import a z-code file, thus
producing a stand-alone application. The stand-alone app would then be
able to create save files that you can double-click on, and basically
act sensibly.)

(Naturally, I don't have time to do this, but if I did, it would be nice
to do it to ZeX rather than the standard MacZIP. How does Greg feel
about it?)

--Z

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