• FEATURE: radically improved rules handling to simplify usage which changed the context in which rules execute (Current Location and Current Actor no longer allowed in rules)
  • FEATURE: "Location Of" expression to retrieve the current location of an instance
  • FEATURE: syntax may now start with a parameter (an instance, like an actor name)
  • FEATURE: TRANSCRIPT statement in language
  • FEATURE: PROMPT section in language to control player input prompt
  • FEATURE: new debugger command language
  • FEATURE: tracing can now use symbolic parameter names
  • BUGFIX: if a dollar sign was followed by a character not defined as a printing symbol, that character was lost
  • BUGFIX: sometimes events would not be restored correctly from a save file
  • BUGFIX: positioning of error pointers in -cc mode was not always correct causing AlanIDE to point to the wrong place
  • BUGFIX: sometimes WinArun and Gargoyle interpreters hung on <more> prompt
  • BUGFIX: undo after quit did sometimes crash

What They Say

"All those weirdly arranged parentheses, and semi-colons and strange curlicues hanging out in the middle of blank lines. Impossible. But when I looked at Alan I saw the light or, at least, English."

Eric Mayer