Inform

This page needs cleanup. We need a new Inform 6 page, most information about Inform 6 should be moved from this page to that one. All the links to Inform's website need updating; see the new Inform7.com site. This page should probably become more of a summary of Inform (including mention of Inform 5), but direct people to Inform 6 and Inform 7 for more detailed info about those variants.

An interactive fiction programming language, created by Graham Nelson in 1993 and now one of the most popular IF development systems. Inform is particularly notable in that it compiles to code for the Z-machine, the same virtual machine used by Infocom. More recent versions of the Inform compiler optionally produce code for the more powerful and flexible virtual machine Glulx.

Inform is portable across many hardware platforms. Interpreters for z-code exist for nearly every computer system ever designed and Glulx interpreters exist for most major operating systems currently in use.

See Inform 7 and Inform 6 for more about the two major versions of Inform.

Summary of Inform Variations

• Z-code
• Glulx
• Inform 6
• Inform 7
• Platypus
• ORLibrary
• InformATE
• MInform
• Triform - alternate Inform library (still in beta as of January 2005).

Tips and Tutorials

See Category:Inform 6 tutorials and Category:Inform 7 tutorials as applicable.

News

• Informary by Roger Firth. Latest news and developments concerning all aspects of Inform.

Editors

There are a number of editors meant to make writing Inform code simpler and easier. They can automatically highlight or format code, generate basic code for classes, and other handy functions.

• IF-Archive list of editors (including Inform editors, and editors for other development systems as well)
• JIF
• Inform Explorer
• Roger Firth's list of IF editors

Links

• Inform7.com - the new Inform 7 site as of April 23, 2009.
• Inform 6 at inform-fiction.org.
• Inform at Wikipedia.