MAJOR FEATURE: the class of parameters and locals can now be asserted using If .. Isa .. allowing general restrictions in parameter restrictions and more specific access (attributes, scripts, containers) with the If-statement
FEATURE: Attributes inherited from entity can now be referenced for literals
FEATURE: Debugger now has a command to toggle a levels of trace off and on
FEATURE: Debugger now lists the programmer name of instances as well as the player name
FEATURE: Debugger can now list instances matching a wildcard pattern ("instance a*")
FEATURE: Compiler now flags all occurrences of a multiply defined identifier
BUGFIX: Out of memory error in interpreter for very large game fixed
BUGFIX: sometimes locating a location At itself crashed the interpreter
BUGFIX: comparing strings with '' did not work
BUGFIX: using a location identifier as a direction sometimes caused a compiler crash
BUGFIX: A DEBUG message would be printed in some games in some circumstances
Gargoyle is a multi-format player which exists for a number of platforms including MacOSX. Distributions of Gargoyle includes an Alan interpreter but to upgrade that to more recent versions you need to download this slot-in replacement and follow the instructions to install it inside Gargoyle.
The Gargoyle multi-format player is the recommended interpreter for playing Alan games on MacOSX. To use the latest version of the Alan interpreter you should download the slot-in replacement and install it.
Using the Terminal:
cd /Applications
tar xvf
Using the Finder:
Open two Finder windows. In one, go into the "Content of the package" of the Gargoyle.app in the downloaded package. In the other go into the "Content of the package" of /Applications/Gargoyle. Then carefully drag and drop each of the files from the dowloaded package to the same place inside /Applications/Gargoyle. There are three files, two in Content/MacOSX/Frameworks and one in Content/MacOSX/PlugIns.
Note that you need Gargoyle 2011.1. Gargoyle 2010.1 does not work properly on MacOSX Lion. It is not an Alan problem.
Gargoyle is a multi-format player which exists for a number of platforms including Linux. Distributions of Gargoyle includes an Alan interpreter but to upgrade that to more recent versions you need to download this slot-in replacement and follow the instructions to install it inside Gargoyle.
Gargoyle is a multi-format player which exists for a number of platforms including Linux. Distributions of Gargoyle includes an Alan interpreter but to upgrade that to more recent versions you need to download this slot-in replacement and follow the instructions to install it inside Gargoyle.
Gargoyle is a multi-format player which exists for a number of platforms including Windows. Distributions of Gargoyle includes an Alan interpreter but to upgrade that to more recent versions you need to download this slot-in replacement and follow the instructions to install it inside Gargoyle.
WinArun is the Windows GUI-based interpreter for Alan. It will run your game in a window with graphics. It requires Glk.dll (included). Packaged with a Windows installer.
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