A new Blorple release
Michael Martin
http://blorple.sf.net/ .
Blorple is an application for browsing interactive fiction
collections. The is the first version that really does everything that
was originally envisioned. However, in the meantime, a bunch of new
requirements have shown up as development and beta-testing proceeded.
So that's why this isn't version 1.0.
In the meantime, though, this is now good enough to do a lot of great
stuff. You can actually maintain titles and authors, you can import
mass compilations en masse, and it supports every Babel-compliant
system with public devtools. Only Level 9 and Magnetic Scrolls games
are missing, and both of them are poorly-documented enough that
support for them is likely to break everything else.
Of the modern formats, only TADS and Inform have intrinsic support for
iFiction. Blorple is currently working around this by allowing
standalone iFiction files to describe nearby files, or via the mass-
import mechanism. I've whipped up some sample indices for the early
entries in the IF Competition; they're in a subdirectory on the
Blorple site for now.
--Michael