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Spatterlight combines the abilities of many interpreters and is able to play games targeted for the following platforms: [[ADRIFT]], [[AdvSys]], [[AGT]], [[Alan]], [[Glulx]], [[Hugo]], [[Level 9]], [[Magnetic]], [[TADS 2]], [[TADS 3]], and [[Z-code]] (except version 6). HTML TADS is not supported yet (text only).
Spatterlight combines the abilities of many interpreters and is able to play games targeted for the following platforms: [[ADRIFT]], [[AdvSys]], [[AGT]], [[Alan]], [[Glulx]], [[Hugo]], [[Level 9]], [[Magnetic]], [[TADS 2]], [[TADS 3]], and [[Z-code]] (except version 6). HTML TADS is not supported yet (text only).


This makes it a good all-purpose interpreter that can play virtually all interactive fiction that is supported on the Mac.
This makes it a good all-purpose interpreter that can play virtually all interactive fiction that is supported on the Mac (except for some newer Glulx games).


It is replacing [[Cugel]], from the same author.
It is replacing [[Cugel]], from the same author.

Revision as of 17:43, 15 March 2008

Spatterlight is a unifed IF interpreter for Macintosh OS X (Cocoa). The author and maintainer is Tor Andersson.

Spatterlight combines the abilities of many interpreters and is able to play games targeted for the following platforms: ADRIFT, AdvSys, AGT, Alan, Glulx, Hugo, Level 9, Magnetic, TADS 2, TADS 3, and Z-code (except version 6). HTML TADS is not supported yet (text only).

This makes it a good all-purpose interpreter that can play virtually all interactive fiction that is supported on the Mac (except for some newer Glulx games).

It is replacing Cugel, from the same author.

See also: Gargoyle, a similar program for MS-Windows and Unix.

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