Inform Designer's Manual: 4th Edition 3
David Cornelson writes: "If you like playing Interactive Fiction or Text Adventures, then maybe you'll like writing them too. One of the premiere development tools for creating these programs is called Inform. The resulting programs are compiled to the Z-Machine specification created by Infocom, one of the original commercial developers of text adventures. The Z-Machine is a virtual machine that has interpreters for many platforms. I recently started taking pre-orders for a layflat perfect bound copy of the Inform Designer's Manual: 4th Edition for the hardcore Interactive Fiction community that resides mostly at the usenet groups rec.arts.int-fiction and rec.games.int-fiction, but if anyone else is interested, feel free to pre-order a copy of the DM4. This is a non-profit project. The author is Graham Nelson, a mathematics professor from Cambridge and has licensed both Inform and the DM4 for public use. The PDF version of the DM4 is currently available, but with so many current users of the Inform language, many people were seeking a printing solution. I volunteered to handle the logistics and Graham is currently finalizing a printed version with the cover art. The printer should receive the final cut in a week or so and begin printing shortly thereafter. Anyway, if you've ever played Zork, Adventure, or Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy, you might want to try writing something of your own. This manual would not only help you get started, but there is a great deal of background information into the genre as well. David Cornelson, dcornelson@placet.com."
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