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The Inform App for macOS

What's New

A new version of the Inform App is now available here. The minimum requirement is now macOS 10.14.6 (Mojave). Users of older macOS versions can of course continue using previous versions from here.

  • The launcher screen shows the latest News from the IFTF.
  • Colour schemes have been introduced (see the new preferences pane).
  • Support for Dark Mode.
  • Support for Basic Inform.
  • Fixes for skeins misdrawing in some cases.
  • Apple Silicon native (while still supporting Intel Macs).
  • A great deal of modernisation has gone on under the hood, but this still remains a work in progress.
  • Support for Inform 6 projects has been removed.

Many thanks to MaddTheSane for a heroic number of modernisations, tweaks and fixes.

Work in the Pipeline

  • Mac App Store Version.
  • Longer term: Modernisation to Swift, and away from deprecated APIs.

About Inform

Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language, a new medium of writing which came out of the "text adventure" games of the 1980s. It has been used by many leading writers of IF over the last twenty years, for projects ranging from historical reconstructions, through games, to art pieces, which have won numerous awards and competitions.

To learn more about the core of Inform, see https://github.com/ganelson/inform. For more Inform resources, see inform7.com.

Inform is free, with no strings attached. What you make with it is yours, to publish on your website, sell, or give to your friends. There's a vibrant community of users who welcome newcomers (and the app will help you find a high-traffic forum for discussions). Lastly, Inform is continuously maintained and developed. All bug reports are examined and acted on (and the app will show you how to post them).

Version History

App Version Inform Version Release Date Description
1.82.3 10.1.2 2022‑09‑05 Official release, supporting Inform 10.1.2 (Notarized, bug fix for previous version)
1.82.2 10.1.2 2022‑09‑02 Bugged - not notarized
1.82.1 10.1.1 2022‑08‑21 Official release, supporting Inform 10.1.1
1.82.0 10.1.0 2022‑08‑20 Official release, supporting Inform 10.1.0
1.81.0‑beta1 10.1.0 (beta) 2022‑07‑30 This is a Beta. Colour Schemes, Dark mode, Basic Inform, Apple Silicon native support.
1.68.1 6M62 2019-11-14 Release with website bug fix.
1.67.1 6M62 2019-10-25 macOS Catalina support.
1.65.1 6M62 2016-10-21 macOS Sierra support. (Also another bug fix for 10.6.8 - Bug #1895)
1.64.1 6M62 2016-01-06 Bugfixes (Fix for 10.6.8 support #1807, toolbar panel #1808, Syntax colouring #1815)
1.64.0 6M62 2015-12-24 Includes new Testing panel, and support for Extension Projects
1.54.4 6L38 2014-11-21 First Mac App Store version released
1.53 6L38 2014-09-23 Experimental sandboxed version (getting closer to Mac App Store release, Distributed to testers to test if it works)
1.52 6L38 2014-09-18 Fixed previous version, now signed properly and non-sandboxed.
1.51 6L38 2014-08-30 Badly signed and sandboxed version
1.50 6L02 2014-05-07 First update, modernising Inform

Building the Inform App.

See Building the macOS Inform App

Licensing

See file 'COPYING'


Toby Nelson, toby m [email protected]