To clarify, Inform wasn't Infocom's engine - they used a their own, completely different language to generate their interactive fiction story files. Inform is a language developed separately (and much later) by Graham Nelson, which also outputs story files readable by the Infocom virtual machine, effectively allowing anyone to create their own Infocom interactive fiction.
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To clarify, Inform wasn't Infocom's engine - they used a their own, completely different language to generate their interactive fiction story files. Inform is a language developed separately (and much later) by Graham Nelson, which also outputs story files readable by the Infocom virtual machine, effectively allowing anyone to create their own Infocom interactive fiction.