programming/blorb/Index

ifwiki: Blorb

Documents and tools for the Blorb format, for bundling
resources such as graphics and music with story files.
See also the Blorb homepage at <https://eblong.com/zarf/blorb/>.

# blorb-infocom-extension.txt

A document specifying an extension to Blorb 1.1 to
handle the original graphics of the four Infocom V6
games, written by Kevin Bracey.
(This extension was incorporated into the main Blorb spec
as of version 2.0.)

# blorb_format.txt

Blorb: An IF Resource Collection Format Standard,
Version 2.0.4, by Andrew Plotkin.

# blorb204_asciidoc.zip

Blorb: An IF Resource Collection Format Standard,
Version 2.0.4, by Andrew Plotkin, converted to
AsciiDoc format by Tristano Ajmone.

# blorblib-102.tar.Z

Blorblib 1.0.2, a library for use in a Z-code interpreter
to read Blorb files, by Andrew Plotkin. Also contains the
source for BlorbScan, a tool to read and analyze Blorb
files.

# blorbtar-0.1.pl

Blorbtar 0.1, a tarlike interface to Blorb files.
Written in PERL by Evin Robertson.

# blorbtar-0.1.patch

A patch for Blorbtar 0.1 to correct a problem with
the encoding and recognition of Glulx gamefiles, by
D.J. Picton.

# gblorb.zip

Gblorb, a Blorb packager and extractor, written in
Glulx Inform by Simon Baldwin.
Serial number 060301

# iblorbb.zip

IBlorb, a Blorb 2.0 packager and resource manager,
by L. Ross Raszewski. MS-DOS executables.

# iblorbs.zip

IBlorb, a Blorb 2.0 packager and resource manager,
by L. Ross Raszewski. C source code.

# rezrov.c

C source code for a utility that extracts resources
from a Blorb file, written by Felix Grützmacher.

# old

Older versions of some of the files in this directory.

# blorbtool.py

A Python script for examining and manipulating Blorb
files, by Andrew Plotkin.
Last updated: October 10, 2024.