Hi Thomas It might be me missing something obvious, but I have downloaded the 3.017 release (PC-Windows) file from the given link twice on two different PC's -...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the alan-if group. File : / Looking for...
Thomas Thanks for your clue. And Hi to everyone. It took me a bit to get this runing. But the Event works as does the decrease of the level of suitair. I...
Will the definition of an object be restricted to one file or will you be able to break in into several files in version 3? I was wondering, because it seems...
Steve Thanks for your help. The solution works nicely. Schedule decrease_air AT HERO After 1. I can see many uses for this. Thanks for the complement. I hate...
Thanks Steve - For getting back to me. Forgive me if I ask some old or dumb questions as I have only been working on Alan for less than three weeks. I've...
Hi Les! I took the liberty to forward this to the Alan IF list. You will find many people with Alan experience there. Please, reply to the list. The general...
Season Greetings to all Alan users all over the world! I sincerly hope that this holiday will be a good one for you and your family. Hopefully I will also get...
There has been information sent my way by sources that I trust that the KLEZ-virus has been distributed through Alan related material. Please run your virus...
Can anyone tell me if there is a way to temporarily disable user input (other than a predetermined set of words.) I was trying to set up a conversation similar...
Hi Dylan! Without much explaining I am giving here some code as to how it might be done. (I am giving examples in version 2.8) VERB 'start' CHECK obj =...
Anssi Raisanen has entered "Out of the Study," in this year's IF Comp. It looks like this is the second year in a row he's put an ALAN game in the Comp. Good...
Hi Sam! I am sure that Alan can be used as a text-RPG development system. There are however no tutorials or documented advice that I know of. I suggest that...
I'd like to second the comments of those who have posted that we "nonprogrammers" really love the way ALAN syntax looks. I did work with TADS a bit, and wrote...
I've had Alan set up so as to be usable to me for so long I can hardly remember how I did it and over the weekend I ran into some trouble with getting the...
I work with ALAN because of the English like structure to it. I would agree that if ALAN where to have a lot of complicated looking things I would just TADS....
Good points Greg. I have to admit I haven't been paying close attention as to the specific constructs being proposed for addition. If they are really only...
Hi all! I have uploaded another development pre-view of Alan v3. You can find it at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alan-if/files/ I have also put the necessary...
So here's another Arun.exe ("in between releases"-version) which uses the GLK-dll if any one is interested in trying it. It runs on my ME-machine at least. ...
I have just uploaded a new version of the problematic v3.0.17development preview. This time the arun is a command line version which runs on all my PC:s. I...
Alan v2 does not support player reference to locations. This makes it hard to do "GO TO home" directly. This would of course also make it impossible to do a...
Would it be possible for someone to compile the UNIX Alan to OSX? I don't have devtools installed and I lack the technical skills to do the compile myself. ...
Hi all, I was wondering if the current 'official' version of Alan could handle doing this, and how would u go about doing it. I'm thinking of writing a game,...
I've updated the std.i library to work with the ALAN 3.0.16 alpha- test compiler. If anyone experimenting with this development version of ALAN version 3 would...
