• 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

"[the game] does not represent the real capabilities of the Alan Language but does demonstrate Alan's amazing ability to allow someone who has never done an iota of computer programming of any kind to produce SOMETHING within a few weeks!"

Eric Mayer (on his game HeBGB Horrors)