View table: Software
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Table structure:
- Type - List of String, delimiter: ,
- Utility_description - Text
- Style - List of String, delimiter: ,
- Interpreter_app - Boolean
- Uses - List of Page, delimiter: ,
- Implements - List of String, delimiter: ,
- Format - List of String, delimiter: ,
- Developer - List of String, delimiter: ,
- System - List of String, delimiter: ,
- System_details - Text
- Version - String
- Date - Date
- Status - String
- Home_page - URL
- Download - URL
- Play_online - URL
- Picture - File
- Multimedia - Text
- License - String
- Notes - Text
This table has 270 rows altogether.
Page | Type | Utility description | Style | Interpreter app | Uses | Implements | Format | Developer | System | System details | Version | Date | Status | Home page | Download | Play online | Picture | Multimedia | License | Notes |
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(U)nix IF Development Server (edit) | Utility | Å-machine • Glulx • Z-code | Fos1 | Retro (u)nix command line shell account. | 2024-09-06 | Unavailable | This site closed due to lack of interest. | |||||||||||||
6 day (edit) | Authoring system | Parser | Gray Flannel Knight | 1.27 | ||||||||||||||||
A-code (Dave Platt) (edit) | Authoring system | Parser | Other | Dave Platt • Mike Arnautov | Windows • macOS • Linux • iOS • Other | A-code can be used on any platform supporting (a) command line and (b) an ANSI C compiler/linker. | 12.86 | 2022-01-04 | Stable | No multimedia as such, but browser builds can support games making use of all HTML capabilities, giving latent multimedia support. | GPL3 | |||||||||
AAS (edit) | Authoring system | Parser | Other | Roddy Ramieson | Unavailable | |||||||||||||||
ADLAN (edit) | Authoring system | Parser | Other | Richard Brooksby | Amstrad CPC | 4.5 | 1989 | Stable | Graphics (disk-based games) | |||||||||||
ADRIFT (edit) | Authoring system | Parser | ADRIFT 4 • ADRIFT 5 • HTML | Campbell Wild | Windows | 5.0.36.4 | 2020-09-12 | Stable | ||||||||||||
ADRIFT Runner (edit) | Interpreter | Yes | ADRIFT 4 • ADRIFT 5 | Campbell Wild | Windows | 5.0 (Release 36) | 2020-09-12 | Stable | ||||||||||||
ADRIFT WebRunner (edit) | Interpreter | Yes | ADRIFT 4 • ADRIFT 5 | Campbell Wild | Browser | 5.36.4 | 2020-09-12 | Stable | ||||||||||||
Adv3lite (edit) | Library | TADS 3 | TADS 3 | Eric Eve | 2.2 | 2025-03-01 | Stable | MIT | ||||||||||||
Adventure (authoring system) (edit) | Authoring system | Parser | Other | Adrian Prantl | Other | Written in Prolog | 2015-11-29 | Unmaintained | AGPL-3.0 | |||||||||||
Adventure Book (edit) | Authoring system | Choice | Jon Ingold | Windows | ||||||||||||||||
Adventure Builder System (edit) | Authoring system | Parser | Other | Tom D. Frost | Sinclair ZX Spectrum | Stable | Usual ZX Spectrum graphics, sound & colour effects. | Former Commercial | ||||||||||||
Adventure Definition Language (edit) | Authoring system | Parser | Other | Tim Brengle • Ross Cunniff | Windows • Linux • Commodore Amiga | [Show] | 2020 Release (still 1.0) | 2020-09-25 | Stable | No multimedia | GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, V2 (1992) | |||||||||
Adventure Prompt (edit) | Authoring system | Parser-choice hybrid | HTML | Felix Pleşoianu | macOS • Linux • Other | Made in Python; works anywhere a runtime is available. | Unmaintained | No multimedia | ||||||||||||
Adventure.lua (edit) | Authoring system | Parser | Other | Shawn Dumas | Other | Written in Lua | 2013-09-26 | Unmaintained | Unknown | |||||||||||
Adventurescape (edit) | Authoring system | Parser | BBC Micro/Acorn Electron | N/A | Unmaintained | Games can be played on a BBC Emulator or the [[AScape]] interpreter | ||||||||||||||
Adventuron (edit) | Authoring system | Parser | HTML | Chris Ainsley | Browser | 1.0.0 Beta 68k | 2021 | Beta | Graphics, sound, some color effects | |||||||||||
AdvSys (edit) | Interpreter • Authoring system | AdvSys | David Betz | Windows • macOS • Linux • MS-DOS • Classic Mac OS • Atari ST • Commodore Amiga | Macintosh (68k and PPC) | 1.2 | ||||||||||||||
AGE (edit) | Interpreter • Authoring system | Parser | Other | Al-Khwarizmi | Other | Both playing and authoring with the IDE require a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). | 1.3.6 | 2017-03-04 | Unmaintained | Colour effects, fonts, graphics, sound | BSD | |||||||||
AGiliTy (edit) | Interpreter | AGT | Robert Masenten • David Kinder | Windows • macOS • Linux • MS-DOS • Classic Mac OS • Acorn Archimedes • Commodore Amiga | 1.1.2 | 2022-03-16 | Stable | GPL2 | ||||||||||||
AGT (edit) | Authoring system | AGT | David Malmberg • Mark J. Welch | Windows • MS-DOS • Classic Mac OS • Atari ST • Commodore Amiga | 1.7 | Stable | Freeware | |||||||||||||
Aimfiz (edit) | Interpreter | No | Z-code | Zzo38 | Windows | Unavailable | GPL3+ | |||||||||||||
Alan (edit) | Authoring system | Parser | Alan 3 | Thomas Nilsson | Windows • macOS • Linux | 3.0beta8 | 2021-09-21 | Beta | image and sound | |||||||||||
Alex (bot) (edit) | Utility | Chat bot for ifMUD | Not applicable | Dan Shiovitz | Other | System: ifMUD. | Stable | |||||||||||||
An Interactive Environment Engine (edit) | Authoring system | Parser | Other | Mark Damon Hughes | Windows • macOS • Linux | 0.3 | 2004-10-19 | Unavailable | Format: Java | |||||||||||
AndroidIF (edit) | Interpreter | No | Glulx | Android | Unmaintained | |||||||||||||||
Archetype (edit) | Authoring system | Parser | acx | Derek T. Jones | Linux • macOS • Windows | 3.0.0 | 2014 | Stable | ||||||||||||
AScape (edit) | Interpreter | tautology0 | ||||||||||||||||||
Ashminster (edit) | Interpreter • Authoring system | Parser | Yes | Other | Roger Taylor • James Byrne | BBC Micro/Acorn Electron • Amstrad CPC • Commodore 64/128 • Sinclair ZX Spectrum | Graphics and sound | Not available | ||||||||||||
AsyncGlk (edit) | Library | Glk • GlkOte protocol | Dannii Willis | Browser | Beta | MIT | ||||||||||||||
AXMA Story Maker (edit) | Authoring system | HTML | Browser • Windows • macOS • Linux | |||||||||||||||||
Babel (utility) (edit) | Utility | Read/manipulate Babel bibliographic data | L. Ross Raszewski • Andrew Plotkin | 0.7 | 2024-10-16 | Stable | ||||||||||||||
Balladeer (edit) | Authoring system | Parser-choice hybrid | Other | tundish | Windows • macOS • Linux | Python library framework and Screenplay dialogue format | 0.60.0 | 2025-02-08 | Stable | Runs as a server; all web media supported. | GNU General Public License v3.0 | |||||||||
Bamboozle (edit) | Utility | Interactive text-mode Blorb manipulator | Andrew Apted | Windows • macOS • Linux | 0.8.0 | 2024-12-13 | MIT | |||||||||||||
Bas2inf (edit) | Utility | Translate BASIC to Inform 6 | Johan Berntsson | Bas2Inf is written in Ruby 1.8.2, and you need to install Ruby on your computer to be able to run the compiler | Unmaintained | |||||||||||||||
Berzio (edit) | Utility | Compiler targeting Z-code | Zzo38 | Unavailable | GNU GPL 3 or later version | |||||||||||||||
Binksi (edit) | Authoring system | Other | HTML • Other | candle • Ju / smwhr • PRINCESSINTERNETCAFÉ | Browser | 0.13.2 | 2023-06-16 | Stable | ANTI-CAPITALIST SOFTWARE LICENSE (v 1.4) | Format: JavaScript | ||||||||||
Bisquixe (edit) | Interpreter | No | Quixe | Glulx | Mathbrush | Browser | 1 | 2023-12-09 | Beta | This interpreter supports color effects and css styling, as well as hyperlinks. | ||||||||||
Bocfel (edit) | Interpreter | No | Z-code | Chris Spiegel | Windows • macOS • Linux | 2.2.3 | 2025-02-01 | Stable | Color, sound, basic Z6 graphics | MIT | ||||||||||
Borogove (edit) | Authoring system | Parser • Choice | Å-machine • Glulx • Hugo • Ink JSON | Juhana Leinonen | Browser | Borogove is an online IDE for various IF languages. | ||||||||||||||
Bunyon (edit) | Interpreter | ScottFree | Stuart George | Windows | 0.3 | 2006 | Unmaintained | |||||||||||||
CellarDoor (edit) | Interpreter | No | Frotz • Git | Glulx • Z-code | Other | Unmaintained | ||||||||||||||
ChoiceScript (edit) | Authoring system | Choice | HTML | Dan Fabulich | Other | 2024-04-04 | Stable | Graphics: possible. Sound: ambient. | Freeware | Released: 2010. | ||||||||||
CliFrotz (edit) | Interpreter | Yes | Frotz | Z-code | Fangorn | Other | PalmOS | 1.6 | 2005-03-24 | Unmaintained | V6 Graphics support, Hires font & colour support for OS5 and OS4 Clies | |||||||||
CocoaTADS (edit) | Interpreter | Charles Srstka | macOS | Original infobox said Mac OS X (10.5+). | 0.3.4? | Unmaintained | Freeware | Written in [[Objective-C]], [[C++]], [[C]]. | ||||||||||||
Cornerstone (edit) | Utility | Relational database | Infocom | MS-DOS | 1985 | Unavailable | ||||||||||||||
CPCZVM (edit) | Interpreter | Yes | Z-code | Kevin Thacker | Amstrad CPC | 2019 | ||||||||||||||
Creative Adventure Toolkit (edit) | Authoring system | Philip Richmond | ||||||||||||||||||
Cugel (edit) | Interpreter | ADRIFT 4 • ADRIFT 5 • AdvSys • AGT • Alan 2 • Alan 3 • Glulx • Hugo • Level 9 • Magnetic Scrolls • TADS 2 • TADS 3 • Z-code | Tor Andersson | macOS | MacOS X (Cocoa) | Unavailable | Has been replaced by [[Spatterlight]]. | |||||||||||||
Curveship-js (edit) | Authoring system | Nick Montfort | 0.4.1 | 2021-09-22 | Beta | GPL3 | See also [[Curveship-py]]. | |||||||||||||
Curveship-py (edit) | Authoring system | Nick Montfort | 0.6.01 | ISC | See also [[Curveship-js]]. | |||||||||||||||
Decker (edit) | Authoring system | Choice | Not applicable | John Earnest | Browser • Windows • macOS • Linux • Other | Instructions to build Decker for Linux and BSD available on Github: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Decker | 1.54 | 2025-03-21 | Stable | Supports color effects, graphics, and sound effects. | MIT | |||||||||
Dendry (edit) | Authoring system | Choice | HTML | I.D. Millington | Browser • Windows • macOS • Linux | Games can run in the terminal or in the browser. Creating and compiling games requires node.js. | 2024-03-25 | Stable | MIT | |||||||||||
Dialog (edit) | Authoring system | Parser • Choice | Å-machine • HTML • Z-code | Linus Åkesson | Browser • Windows • Linux | An online editor is available: see [[Borogove]]. | 0m/03, library 0.46 | 2021-01-02 | Stable | graphics | BSD-2-Clause | |||||||||
Discourse Frotz (edit) | Interpreter | No | Frotz | Z-code | Robert Merefield | Other | System: Discourse forum. | Stable | ||||||||||||
DMagnetic (edit) | Interpreter | Yes | Magnetic Scrolls | Thomas Dettbarn | Browser • Windows • macOS • Linux • Android • CP/M • Other | Anything with a C compiler; can be installed on Debian/Ubuntu using <code>sudo apt-get install dmagnetic</code>; works on Mac but only via Homebrew and Android but only via Termux. | 0.37 | 2023-05-17 | Stable | Colour text effects: yes. Graphics: ANSI, ASCII, sixel, UTF-8. Sound: No. | BSD 2-Clause. | First released 14 April 2019. | ||||||||
Donjon FI (edit) | Authoring system | Parser | HTML | Jonathan Claes | Browser | 3.0 | 2024-11-17 | Stable | It support different colors schemes and styles that can be changed during the game. You can add images, sounds and musics. | MIT license | ||||||||||
DreamPath (edit) | Interpreter • Authoring system | Choice | Unmaintained | |||||||||||||||||
Eamon (edit) | Authoring system | Parser | Not applicable | Donald Brown | Windows • macOS • Linux • Other | No multimedia | ||||||||||||||
Elm Story (edit) | Authoring system | Parser-choice hybrid | Not applicable | ritsuke • Leonardo Codamo | Windows • macOS • Linux | 0.7.0 | 2022-04-18 | Unavailable | Currently supports images, sound and text formatting. Expanded customization is planned for v0.8; Summer 2022. | https://elmstory.com/license/ | ||||||||||
ElseIFPlayer (edit) | Interpreter | Yes | Emglken | ADRIFT 4 • Glulx • Hugo • TADS 2 • TADS 3 • Z-code | He4eT | Browser | 0.2.0 | 2023-06-29 | Stable | No multimedia | MIT | |||||||||
Emglken (edit) | Interpreter | No | Bocfel • Git • Glulxe • Mjr-T3 • Scare • Hugo interpreter • RemGlk-rs | ADRIFT 4 • Glulx • Hugo • TADS 2 • TADS 3 • Z-code | Dannii Willis | Browser • Linux | 0.7.0 | 2024-12-14 | Stable | Emglken in Parchment has full multimedia support, but in Lectrote only supports graphics | MIT, some terps GPL-2.0 | |||||||||
Emuera (edit) | Interpreter | Yes | Other | MinorShift | Windows | 1.824 | 2019-01-28 | Unmaintained | Color, Graphics | zlib/libpng | Runs loose EraBasic (ERB) code and CSV files | |||||||||
Encrusted (edit) | Interpreter | Yes | Z-code | Sterling DeMille | Browser • Windows • Linux | Non-browser version must be built from source with Rust/Cargo development environment | 1.1.0 | 2019-02-25 | Stable | MIT | Z-machine version 3 only | |||||||||
Eramaker (edit) | Interpreter • Authoring system | Parser | Other | Circle Baku | Windows | 2005-12-26 | Unmaintained | Dependent on Interpreter. The Base Eramaker interpreter does not support multimedia. | Runs loose EraBasic (ERB) code and CSV files | |||||||||||
Escenadil (edit) | Authoring system | 1.4.4 | ||||||||||||||||||
Esclinux (edit) | Utility | Linux live-CD for IF | Eric Forgeot | Linux | April 2009 | Unavailable | ||||||||||||||
Evergreen.ink (edit) | Authoring system | Choice | Other | Sean Beebe • Rylan Schubkegel • Jonathan Hays • Manton Reece • Ryan DeVore | Browser • iOS • Android | 1.1 | 2023-08-14 | Stable | graphics, sound | |||||||||||
Fabularium (edit) | Interpreter | Yes | ADRIFT 4 • ADRIFT 5 • AdvSys • AGT • Alan 2 • Alan 3 • Glulx • Hugo • Level 9 • Magnetic Scrolls • ScottFree • TADS 2 • TADS 3 • Z-code | Tim Cadogan-Cowper | Android | 1.4.1 | 2018-11-18 | Unmaintained | Colors, graphics | See also [[Fabularium (F-Droid)]], a fork by David A Roberts. | ||||||||||
Fabularium (F-Droid) (edit) | Interpreter | Yes | ADRIFT 4 • ADRIFT 5 • AdvSys • AGT • Alan 2 • Alan 3 • Glulx • Hugo • Level 9 • Magnetic Scrolls • ScottFree • TADS 2 • TADS 3 • Z-code | David A Roberts | Android | 1.5.1 | 2025-01-11 | Stable | Colors, graphics | See also [[Fabularium]], the original app by Tim Cadogan-Cowper. | ||||||||||
Filfre (edit) | Interpreter | No | Glulx • Z-code | Jimmy Maher | Windows | 1.1.1 | 2013-01-24 | Unmaintained | ||||||||||||
Fizmo (edit) | Interpreter | Z-code | Christoph Ender | Linux • iOS | 0.8.5 | 2017-09-10 | BSD | |||||||||||||
Flashonate (edit) | Interpreter | Z-code | Peter Rogers | Browser | Flash | Unavailable | ||||||||||||||
Flaxo (edit) | Interpreter | Z-code | Peter Mattsson | Browser | Flash | Unavailable | ||||||||||||||
Floyd (bot) (edit) | Utility | ifMUD interpreter bot | Other | System: ifMUD. | Stable | |||||||||||||||
Folia (edit) | Authoring system | Choice | Not applicable | Axile Studio • Alex McGivern • Holly Boson | Windows • Linux | 1.2.1 | 2023-08-31 | Stable | Displays images in a dedicated pane, as well as background images, and supports image effects such as alpha blending. Sound is supported. | Free for commercial use; the engine may be freely modified for non-commercial use, and for commercial use with permission. | Based on Lua, allows the use of Lua code whenever needed. | |||||||||
FrankenDrift (edit) | Interpreter | Yes | ADRIFT Runner | ADRIFT 4 • ADRIFT 5 | Adrian Welcker | Windows • macOS • Linux | 0.7.0 | 2024-08-10 | Stable | Graphics, color | MIT License | |||||||||
FRISE (edit) | Authoring system | Choice | HTML | Chris Pollett | Browser • Windows • macOS • Linux • Other | Games can be authored on any system that has a text editor that can save HTML files | 1 | 2023-01-31 | color effects, graphics, sound, video to the extent that HTML supports them | Mozilla Public License 2.0 | ||||||||||
FrobTADS (edit) | Interpreter • Authoring system | Parser | TADS 2 • TADS 3 | Nikos Chantziaras | macOS • Linux • Other | The official release is source code only. On macOS and Linux, it can be easily installed through [https://brew.sh/ Homebrew]. Some Linux distributions also provide a package for it, but it can be outdated. Homebrew usually provides the latest version. See [[How to build FrobTADS on Mac OS X]]. | 2.0 | 2021-05-09 | Stable | color effects | ||||||||||
Frolg (edit) | Utility | Z-machine assembler | Z-code | Zzo38 | 1.4 | 2013-08-27 | Unmaintained | GPL3 | ||||||||||||
Frotz (edit) | Interpreter | No | Z-code | David Griffith | macOS • Linux • Other | 2.55 | 2025-02-01 | Stable | color effects | GPL2+ | ||||||||||
Frotz for iOS (edit) | Interpreter | Yes | Frotz • Glulxe • Git • Mjr-T3 | Glulx • TADS 2 • TADS 3 • Z-code | Craig Smith | iOS | 1.8.8 | 2023-09-24 | Stable | Color, Graphics (No TADS multimedia support) | GNU GPL-2.0 | |||||||||
FrOz (edit) | Interpreter | No | Malte Gabsdil • Kristina Striegnitz • Alexander Koller | Unavailable | The description on the wiki page is really vague but I've kept this in the interpreter category. | |||||||||||||||
Fweep (edit) | Interpreter | Z-code | Zzo38 | Windows • Other | C source code and Win32 executable available | 0.8.4 | 2013 | Unmaintained | Unsupported features include text formatting, fonts, colours, pictures, unicode, and sound effects. | GNU GPL v3 or later version | ||||||||||
FyreVM-dotnet (edit) | Interpreter | No | Glulx | Tara McGrew | Windows+.NET | 1.0 | 2015-02-05 | Stable | ||||||||||||
FyreVM-web (edit) | Interpreter | No | Glulx | Thilo Planz | Browser | 1.0 | 2016-10-18 | Experimental | ||||||||||||
GAGS (edit) | Authoring system | Mark J. Welch | ||||||||||||||||||
GAME4.0 (edit) | Interpreter • Authoring system | Parser | Other | David Goodenough | CP/M | 1990 | No multimedia. | |||||||||||||
Gargoyle (edit) | Interpreter | Yes | Alan • Bocfel • Git • Glulxe • Magnetic • AdvSys • Jacl • Level9 • Scare • ScottFree • AGiliTy • Mjr-T3 • Taylormade • Plus • Hugo interpreter | ADRIFT 4 • AdvSys • AGT • Alan 2 • Alan 3 • Glulx • Hugo • Level 9 • Magnetic Scrolls • ScottFree • TADS 2 • TADS 3 • Z-code | Tor Andersson • Ben Cressey • Chris Spiegel | Windows • macOS • Linux | 2023.1 | 2023-02-20 | Stable | Different for each game format | GPL-2.0 | Licence: [[GPL]] (front-end code), others (interpreters). [http://ccxvii.net/gargoyle Original Gargoyle homepage]. | ||||||||
Geas (edit) | Interpreter | Quest | Mark Tilford | Windows • macOS • Linux | 0.1 | |||||||||||||||
Gelek (edit) | Interpreter | Level9 | Level 9 | Joan CiberSheep | Linux | Ubuntu Touch (GNU/Linux). | 1.4.0 | 2021-03-11 | GPL | Written in: [[C++]], [[QML]], [[C]]. | ||||||||||
Gelek Vanilla (edit) | Interpreter | Yes | ADRIFT 4 • AdvSys • AGT • Alan 2 • Alan 3 • Glulx • Hugo • Level 9 • Magnetic Scrolls • ScottFree • TADS 2 • TADS 3 • Z-code | Joan CiberSheep | Linux | Ubuntu Touch (GNU/Linux). | 3.1.0 | 2024-09-18 | Stable | GNU GPL v2 | Written in: [[C++]], [[QML]], [[C]]. | |||||||||
Git (edit) | Interpreter | No | Glulx | Iain Merrick • David Kinder | Windows • macOS • Linux | 1.3.8 | 2023-10-12 | Stable | Color, graphics, and sound | MIT | ||||||||||
GlkOte (edit) | Library | Glk • GlkOte protocol | Andrew Plotkin | Browser | 2.3.6 | 2024-11-24 | Stable | MIT | ||||||||||||
Glulx-strings (edit) | Utility | Story file string extractor | Glulx • TADS 2 • TADS 3 • Z-code | Jacques Frechet | Browser | v4.4.0 | 2019-09-14 | Stable | MIT | |||||||||||
Glulx-typescript (edit) | Interpreter | No | Glulx | Thilo Planz | Browser | 1.0 | 2016-10-18 | Stable | ||||||||||||
Glulxe (edit) | Interpreter | No | Glulx | Andrew Plotkin | Windows • Linux | 0.6.1 | 2023-10-09 | Stable | MIT | |||||||||||
GLUZMA (edit) | Interpreter | Z-code | Zzo38 | Other | Runs in [[Glulx]] virtual machine | Public domain | ||||||||||||||
Gnusto (edit) | Interpreter | No | Z-code | Marnanel Thurman • Atul Varma • Dannii Willis • Eric Liga | Browser | Unmaintained | ||||||||||||||
Graphic Adventure Creator (edit) | Interpreter • Authoring system | Parser | Other | Sean Ellis | BBC Micro/Acorn Electron • Amstrad CPC • Commodore 64/128 • Sinclair ZX Spectrum | Stable | Line-and-fill images | Commercial |