ALAN ADVENTURE LANGUAGE



                     Release 2.8 now available
                       Date: 1999-11-14



THE NEWS IN SHORT:

o The previously available mail delivery service has been
discontinued.
 Registration is now personally with

       [email protected]

o Version 2.8 is out.

o Alan Home Pages has moved to

       http://welcome.to/alan-if



THE LONG STORY:

The Alan System is one of the most easy-to-use tools to create
interactive fiction, aka. adventure games. The Alan System is based on
a special purpose computer language designed to be used by people more
interested in authoring and designing games than for computer
programmers.  The system consists of a compiler which compiles Alan
source to a compact and portable form and an interpreter that
interprets such a form to allow playing of the game.

Version 2.8 is an upgrade with some new features and bug fixes (see
the file Changes and the documentation for details)

The format of game files have changed slightly between 2.7 and
2.8. The 2.8 interpreter should run 2.7 compiled games. Older
interpreters are available for various platforms.

The Alan System is register-ware. To use Alan all you need to do is to
register. Registration can be done with a simple email to Thomas
Nilsson ([email protected]) with a message *body* containing
the single word REGISTER.

Complete distribution and documentation packages, as well as other
related information, are available from the Alan Home Pages at

       http://welcome.to/alan-if

or

       ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/alan

and its mirrors.

The distributions package contains some small examples as well as the
compiler and interpreter. The documentation is separately available as
text, html or PostScript.

For complete copying conditions refer to the file COPYING in the
distribution or appendix J in the manual.

If you have any problems don't hesitate to contact the authors at the
following email addresses:

       [email protected]
       [email protected]

All communication is welcome! You may also wish to visit the
Alan Home Pages at

       http://welcome.to/alan-if




If you haven't already, join the 1133 people registered. Happy
Authoring!



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