Install spatterlight with Homebrew Cask

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Project history

Spatterlight is a native Cocoa interactive-fiction application for macOS. It is released under the GNU General Public License, while its bundled interpreters and libraries retain their respective licenses.

The project also supports the Treaty of Babel standard, allowing it to use standardized bibliographic metadata for interactive-fiction works.

Adoption history

Spatterlight became a broad macOS front end for interactive-fiction formats rather than an interpreter tied to a single virtual machine. Its format coverage includes Z-code, Glulx, TADS, Hugo, Alan, Level 9, Magnetic Scrolls, Adrift, AGT, AdvSys, and Quill games.

How it is used

Users open downloaded interactive-fiction story files in Spatterlight, which selects an appropriate bundled interpreter. The application can also organize works using bibliographic metadata supplied through the Treaty of Babel ecosystem.

Why package nerds care

It packages numerous historically distinct interactive-fiction interpreters behind a native Cocoa interface. This makes it a preservation-oriented package as well as a game player and reduces the need to install separate interpreters for each story format.

Timeline

• Current project era: Spatterlight is maintained as an open-source macOS application on GitHub.
• Current project era: Treaty of Babel support provides standardized bibliographic cataloguing.

Related projects

• Spatterlight interoperates with the Treaty of Babel metadata standard and supports story formats associated with systems such as Inform/Z-machine, Glulx, TADS, Hugo, Alan, Level 9, Magnetic Scrolls, and Adrift.

Sources

• https://ccxvii.net/spatterlight/
• https://github.com/angstsmurf/spatterlight