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DavidKinder / Windows-Inform7

Front-end for the Windows version of Inform 7.
http://inform7.com/
Artistic License 2.0
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Where is the original source code? #20

Closed FilmCoder closed 3 years ago

FilmCoder commented 3 years ago

@DavidKinder What happened to the original inform7 source code?

According to this talk: http://inform7.com/talks/2019/06/14/narrascope.html

The original source code should be here, but the link is dead: https://github.com/ganelson/inform

Does this repo contain all the source? Is ganelson still around? Is Inform7 still maintained?

Thank you!

PS. I'm interested in using Inform7 as an engine to power a discord bot.

DavidKinder commented 3 years ago

Graham has not yet completed the overhaul of the Inform 7 codebase described in that talk (and the Narrascope 2020 talk). It is my understanding that those repositories will be made public when he considers it ready for a public release. Until then they remain private. Inform 7 is still maintained.

FilmCoder commented 3 years ago

@DavidKinder ahh OK. So it's my understanding then, that this repo is a GUI editor for making Inform7 stories, and then you just pass the story text to the Inform7 compiled binaries for processing into a final executable? But you don't have access to the actual source code?

DavidKinder commented 3 years ago

The intention of the Inform 7 project was always that the front-ends (this project is the Windows front-end) and the underlying compiler formed a whole, but yes, this project is the source for the Windows GUI front-end. The source for the actual Inform 7 compiler has never been made public, as yet.