Translating the Source - Out of Readable Memory

The application ran your source text through the Inform 7 compiler, asusual, and it found no problems translating the source. This processresults in what's called a story file, which is a program for asmall virtual computer. Unfortunately, the story file for this source textbroke a fundamental limit in this virtual computer: the maximum spaceavailable for "readable memory", which really means the spaceavailable in which to store tables, rulebooks, things, rooms and dictionarywords.

Inform can produce story files for several different virtual computers, andthe one used by the current project can be selected using the Settingspanel. If you are currently using the version 5 Z-machine, youcould try trading up to version 8, but this may not help - both versionshave the same limit, more or less. If you switch the project to the Glulxformat (you can make this change at the Settings panel), then limits likethis will probably not bother you again. Although Z-machine story filesused to be much more widely playable than Glulx ones, these days Glulxinterpreters are widely available, so it's probably not worth making bigsacrifices to stay within the Z-machine memory size.

But if you do want to economise and stay on Z, there is advice on this inChapter 2 of the documentation.

Sorry for the inconvenience.