Inform release 4X60

Release date: 2007-08-23 12:00:00

Description of this release

Build 4X60 adds 19 new examples and modernises a dozen others, and presents a new volume of built-in documentation: the Inform Recipe Book. It also provides new features for variable text, improves and extends table-handling, allows Glulx-format games to read and write files and communicate with external programs, and allows extensions to create more readable and useful documentation.

The change log can be browsed here.

This is no longer the current build. Almost all users should look for the latest one. Old builds like this are unsupported, and are kept only for the benefit of people who need exactly to recreate the system as it stood in the past, perhaps to replicate an old Inform project.

I7_4X60_OSX.zip

Inform for Mac OS X
	Universal Binary for Macs running Tiger 10.4.3 or later, including Leopard 10.5. (Panther 10.3.9 is unsupported, but may work.) Your browser may automatically unzip the app once downloaded: if not, double-click the .zip file by hand. Either way, you should see the Inform application, Inform.app. Simply drag this to the computer’s Applications folder, or wherever else you like. To uninstall: Drag the application to the trash.

I7_4X60_Windows.exe

PC running Windows 95 or later
	(For Windows 95 and 98, Internet Explorer 5.0 or later must also be installed.) Click the link to download I7_5U92_Windows.exe (about 3.5 MB), and save it to your hard drive. Double click on the downloaded file to start installation. For most users the default install parameters are what is required, so just keep clicking "Next" until the install has completed. An entry for "Inform 7" will appear in the Start Menu, from which Inform can be run. To uninstall: Go to "Add or Remove Programs" in the Control Panel, select "Inform 7" and click on "Remove".

I7_4X60_Linux_all.tar.gz

Command line Inform built for general Linux architectures
	(For the following six architectures: i386, x86_64, armv5tel, ppc, s390, s390x.) CLI Inform for Linux is supplied as a gzipped tar. Once this is opened, installation instructions can be found in the file INSTALL, and operational instructions in README or the manual page installed by the Inform installer. This is an assembly of a command-line interface written in Perl together with independent command-line tools.

I7_4X60_Linux_i386.tar.gz

Command line Inform built for Linux on i386 architecture
	CLI Inform for Linux is supplied as a gzipped tar. Once this is opened, installation instructions can be found in the file INSTALL, and operational instructions in README or the manual page installed by the Inform installer. This is an assembly of a command-line interface written in Perl together with independent command-line tools.

I7_4X60_SunOS_all.tar.gz

Command line Inform built for Solaris 10
	(For Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris on both x86 and sparc, as well as NexentaOS.) CLI Inform for Linux is supplied as a gzipped tar. Once this is opened, installation instructions can be found in the file INSTALL, and operational instructions in README or the manual page installed by the Inform installer. This is an assembly of a command-line interface written in Perl together with independent command-line tools.