Hi All! I have just uploaded the 3.0.23dev preview of the Alan system. Executables are built for Windows, but also includes an updated library and manual which...
Hi All I have seen this fraud / SCAM my self. I had three different attempts come to my via my email. All three times I passed the informaion on to the FBI...
Inheritance first, now recursion. This is looking great -- as a Mac user I can only look for now. Both of these concepts seem to have been implemented while...
While ALAN 3 is still in development, perhaps beta testers could examine ABC. http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/abc/ http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/abc/examples/ Of special...
... It would be a nice idea for some short 'design lessons I have learned' essays. I've enjoyed reading interviews in SPAG of IF Comp winners, etc. It's...
Stephen Griffiths
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Mar 3, 2003 12:12 am
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Actually 2 questions. (1) Do any of the items on this page http://homepage.mac.com/bhines/if.html let me view ALAN games on Mac OS X (Jaguar)? (2) Will ALAN...
Hi factivity, I would think that ALAN 3 games, will be 1 or 2 files on all platforms the same. Since any game runner can run any ALAN 2 game, regardless of...
... No. Those are Carbon versions of a few Z-Machines, the TADS VM, Gluxe and AGT. To run ALAN games you'll need to use the Classic Mac version at the...
Hi there. The ALAN-Comp is a themed, nine-week coding competition intended to encourage IF-authors to publish a game using ALAN. If you have some spare time,...
Walt wrote ... Cool idea, Walt! I hope all the rest of you enter (I might not have the time to write unfortunately.) [snip] ... [snip] Would you consider also...
stevgrif@...
May 1, 2003 11:43 pm
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... << Would you consider also mentioning the comp on raif and rgif now. >> That's a good idea. There might be some ALANites who don't know about this mailing...
Nice! I hope this will get the number of generally available Alan games up! Adventurous authors are, I suppose, allowed using Alan V3. Alan V3 is still...
I would very much like to be able to use Alan V3 to create an entry -- even more important, I would like to get my students involved. Now, a "proficient...
btw, speaking of ALAN games, I entered something into the IF Art Show ("Ogres")...they're still judging now but it should be available on the IF Archive for...
... << What I think would be helpful to promote the PLAYING of ALAN games (which can only help their demand and development) would be to zip together a few...
... << I would very much like to be able to use Alan V3 to create an entry -- even more important, I would like to get my students involved. Now, a "proficient...
From: "Walter Sandsquish" <sandsquish@...> Date sent: Thu, 01 May 2003 18:46:04 -0000 Subject: [alan-if] The ALAN-Comp [snip] ... ...
stevgrif@...
May 3, 2003 3:59 am
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... << Can contestants or judges beta-test? If so, does this affect their rights or responsibilities in judging the entries? >> Oops. I hadn't foreseen any...
To: <alan-if@yahoogroups.com> From: "Thomas Nilsson" <thomas.nilsson@...> Date sent: Fri, 2 May 2003 11:09:18 +0200 ...
stevgrif@...
May 3, 2003 9:06 pm
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... << Wouldn't there be a few problems with using Alan V3? >> You have some good points. My main concern would be with the interpreter. (It's Windows-only,...
I think Steve is correct for the most part. I will try to put some of the concerns to rest though: 1) Only subscribers to Alan-IF have access to the...
... << [...] if I came up with a good espionage plot I wouldn't mind writing a game [...] >> There's no reason we couldn't use this mailing list to brainstorm...
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Hello, I want to suggest an addition to the Alan system: spanish adjectives support. There are some incompatibilities in the mode adjectives are handled in...
Hi Marcos! Interesting suggestion! I had not thought about it before, but there are a number of langauges with this feature, right? I'm thinking latin...
Hello again, Just as a reminder, there's about a month left in the design and coding portion of the contest. http://www.geocities.com/sandsquish/alancomp.html ...
I tried using the Alan 2.8.1 executables downloadable from the IF Archive. I couldn't because the Linux library files weren't on my Redhat 8 system. Fudging...
SteveG
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Jun 10, 2003 8:07 am
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... I've not tried this under Linux, but the following works for Solaris: 1. You need to cope with the newline issue, by running dos2unix over all of the...
