Programming Tools Index
This index contains a list of all available interactive fiction programming
tools.
Acorn Archimedes
- A program for testing adventure games on the Acorn Archimedes under RISCOS
(SparkFs file), by Graham Nelson.
Apple II
- Contains a utility (InfoSnarf) to extract game data from the older 5.25"
disk format for 8-bit Apple II's and save them in the newer standard format.
InfocomPro itself is an intrepreter which runs under ProDOS, making these
games playable on newer large-capacity disk devices.
- Contains an Apple IIGS version which runs the Unix workalike system GNO.
It can read the same data files as InfocomPro, or any of the other standard
z-code story files.
Inform
- Minimal Inform mode for Emacs 18/19 version 0.2, by Gareth Rees.
- Contains a list of available Infocom tools.
TADS
- This Macintosh application by Anders Haavie will automatically change a
file's attributes to "TADS 2.0 file". Just drop the file you want to change
into this application.
- A stack for HyperCard 2.1 (Macintosh) for prototyping TADS adventures;
StuffIt'd and BinHex'd by Jared Reisinger.
- Unix filter (written in [f]lex]) that checks TADS noun lists for multiple
words that are the same ignoring case, to six characters. Such errors cause the
common "Which do you mean: the X, or the X?" problem, by David M. Baggett.
- TADS editing commands for Emacs, by David Johnson. "Just like C-mode, only
different :)"
- Extracts user-visible text from TADS source code (for spell-checking etc.
DOS executable version 1.1 by Rick LaBach.
- Supplements the compiler's error checking.
DOS executable version 1.0 by Rick LaBach.
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