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(noted Spatterlight can't play some new Glulx games.)
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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 (except for some newer Glulx games).
This makes it a good all-purpose interpreter that can play virtually all interactive fiction that is supported on the Mac.


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

Revision as of 03:01, 20 June 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.

It is replacing Cugel, from the same author.

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

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