Iain Truskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Jonadab the Unsightly One ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01 Jul 2003 23:41]: > > Iain Truskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Not the only one. And with Parrot being able to execute > > > Z-code, it might be sane to port Inform to Parrot! > > > Did you mean port Inform to run on Parrot, or port Inform > > to compile to parrot? > > The former.
That shouldn't be too hard, once Parrot is essentially complete. Inform is _fairly_ portable. Not extremely portable like z-code, but fairly portable. > I was thinking more of Parrot being a portable interactive fiction > platform for reading and creating games. I can see the advantage in having Inform run on Parrot, so that games could be created anywhere. Currently Inform only runs on a relative handful of major platforms (RISC OS, most POSIX systems, Win32, DOS, Mac classic, Amiga, OS/2, and a couple of others I think.) Various people have expressed interest on getting it to run on various handheld devices, but the only such effort I know about succeeding is the Psion 5, though the folks in rec.arts.int-fiction would know better; I've been out of touch with the IF community lately. For reading/playing games, I don't think it makes sense to try to compete with the existing, established virtual machines. The z-machine is the veritable holy grail of portability. Every month it seems somebody releases a new z-machine for Yet Another Obscure Platform. z-code runs on everything from Gameboy to Emacs.
