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Jimmy Maher announces a significant upgrade to Filfre, an interpreter for playing z-code and Glulx games on Windows. The newest release includes a number of bug-fixes and implements accelerated opcodes to play complex Glulx games more quickly.

Ben Cressey announces the latest update of Gargoyle, an interpreter front end for Windows and Linux, with attractive font rendering capable of running z-code and Glulx games as well as games for other IF virtual machines. Downloads are available here and changes are logged here.

Courtesy of Andrew Hunter:

The Mac OS X interpreter Zoom 1.1.4 has been released.

This is primarily a maintenance release, with various bugfixes accumulated over the last year and updates to the interpreters. It has one major new feature: you can now choose which Glulx interpreter to use in the preferences - either the faster git or the reference glulxe.

Iain Merrick has released version 1.2.4 of Git, his direct threaded interpreter for the Glulx virtual machine. Glulx is one of the two VMs on which Inform-written works of IF can be played - the other is the more traditional Z-machine, which can only handle smaller works; authors can choose which they want to use with the Settings panel in Inform. Git is generally faster than the reference implementation for Glulx, called Glulxe, and version 1.2.4 adds support for the new “Inform veneer acceleration” opcodes recently added to the Glulx specification, which makes it *much* faster still.

The speed gains are only realised when a story file is played back on v1.2.4 or later of git, so we’d ask all interpreter writers using git to upgrade as soon as possible. The speed gains also only show for a story file produced by Inform release 5Z71 or later, so authors of existing IF works which feel a little slow at present might want to re-release them using the new 5Z71.

There are details posted on RAIF.