What is the GBLORB file format?
GBLORB is a package file format.
Contents of GBLORB files
Files with GBLORB extension store data for Glulx games, including:
- audio effects,
- images,
- history file,
- game code,
- music tracks.
Glulx files use ULX extension and are aggregated in GBLORB packages. In this sense GBLORB is rather like a game archive file.
What is Glulx?
Glulx is a 32bit virtual machine for interactive fiction games (IF) that uses GBLORB files. Interactive ficion is a computer game genre where user interact with the game using text command. Dedicated programs, called parsers, transform commands supplied by the user into machine-readable code that utilizes resources defined in GBLORB files. Modern parsers can easily handle complex commands, for example “open the red box with the green button and then go north”. Some Glulx games are also available in Polish language.
Format details
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