The Inform App for macOS
September 5, 2022 · View on GitHub
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 nelson@gmail.com