UNX Converter

Extract text from UNX files

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How to extract text from your UNX file

Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your UNX file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert UNX to another file type

To convert your UNX file to another format, you need Inform or other Game software.

Convert a file to UNX

To convert other file formats to the "Interactive Fiction" file type, you need software like Inform or a similar tool.

About UNX files

The .unx extension identifies two distinct file types, causing frequent confusion. The most common (75%) is a compiled Interactive Fiction game file designed for the Glulx virtual machine. These are rich, text-based adventure games (often created with Inform) that contain a story, logic, and sometimes multimedia. Users typically encounter friction here because .unx files are binary blobs that cannot be opened by standard text editors or game players; they require a specific interpreter like Gargoyle or Lectrote to function. The file effectively "locks" the game content inside a proprietary format, making it impossible to read or print the story without the correct software.

Secondary to this (0.9%), a .unx file may be a raw Unix Text File (often named readme.unx). These are simple text documents that use Line Feed (LF) characters for line breaks, which can cause formatting errors (the "text in one long line" bug) when opened in standard Windows Notepad.

Conversion Best Practices:

For Gameplay: You cannot convert a Glulx .unx file into a video or standard executable easily. The best approach is to "convert" it to a playable state using a cross-platform interpreter like Gargoyle, or use a web-based tool like Quixe to play it in a browser.
For Text Extraction: If you need to read the source text of a Unix file, convert it to TXT by opening it in a code editor like Notepad++ and switching the End-of-Line conversion to Windows (CRLF).

Convert.Guru analyzes your UNX file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted TXT, NOW, OLI, U2P and UNV files.

FAQ

If you want to convert UNX file to UNV, TXT, RTF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, PAGES, TEX, LATEX, MD, MARKDOWN or LOG, you can use Inform or similar software from the "Interactive Fiction Game File" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert PDF, DOC, ASC, TODO, NFO, MEMO, README, DOCX, JPG, TXT, NOTE or RTF files to UNX, try Inform or another comparable tool in the "Interactive Fiction Game File" category.

The UNX Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our UNX converter.