News!
2003-09-06 : V3 preview 3.0.26 available for download from this site. Supports images, undo, syntax synonyms and more.

2003-07-23 : Alan 2.8.7 available for download. Fixes syntax trashed by compiler and paragraphs rendered same as newline in WinArun.

2003-07-12 : V3 preview 3.0.25 available for download from this site.

2003-07-05 : Arun for Windows (GLK) port #3 available for download.

2003-06-18 : V3 preview 3.0.24 available for download from this site.

2003-06-18 : Alan DeNiro entered a (actually a three part) Landscape, Ogres, in the 2003 IF Art Show. He got one vote for best in show, by J.D. Berry.

2003-05-02 : The Worlds first ALAN-Comp is announced. See the ALAN-Comp home page for details!

2003-04-22 : The Home Pages are getting a well-deserved renovation!!

2002-12-10 : Alan V3 is available in development pre-view versions. Join the mailing list!!

2002-11-16 : Anssi Raisanens game, Out of the Study, (the single Alan game) finished 24th of the 43 games entered in the 8th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition. Hurray for Anssi, and thanks for keeping the Alan flag up. Where are all the other authors?

2001-11-16 : 3 Alan games in the 2001 Annual Interactive Fiction Competition!!! "The Chasing" (by Anssi Raisanen), finished 14th, "The Isolato Incident" (by Alan DeNiro) finished 22nd, and "To Otherwhere and Back" (by Gregory Ewing) finished 28th. Well done!

Source code available!!! Due to a change in the licensing policy of the compiler building tools used to create the compiler it is now possible to distribute the source code. You can download it from the download page.

Extended "Wear"-library by Alan(!) Bampton. Read about it here. Or download it from the download page.

Read Eric Mayers article about "Easy" Interactive Fiction Languages on Stephen Granade's Brass Lantern.

Version 0.3.1 of the proposed standard library is now available with many improvements and new features. Have a look at it here.

A new version of the PDF manual is available. No major contents have changed, main purpose is to make sure that the full production cycle of it works when major changes start to happen.

A BeOS port of the 2.8 interpreter is available.

Stephen Griffiths has made a page with an easy to follow description of how to set up your computer for authoring and playing using Alan. Read all about it here!

A Glk port of the Alan interpreter for various Linux'es, Windows and DOS has been performed by Joe Mason and a MacIntosh version by Iain Merrick. Get it at the Alan part of the IF Archive!

The first Alan utility has been created by Stephen Griffiths. A tool to extract all text from a games source for spell checking or other purposes. Get it from the download page!

Two Alan games in the 5th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition. Finished 16 and 22 out of 37! Good work Eric and Mikko!

Alan Home Pages on the move! New home is at http://welcome.to/alan-if.

2.8 interpreter for Amiga available on the download page.

Improved FAQ!

New example : Score Notification by Stephen Griffiths

Marian Taylor won the 1999 Spring IF Art Show with a work in Alan! Congratulations!

Alan games dominated the 1999 Wacky Game competition. See the Publicly Available Games page.

New version (v0.2) of the proposed standard library available for download!

Beta version of Win32 interpreter available for download. Supports command line history and editing (even on the PC!) and status line!

Alan version 2.8! Download Sparc/solaris, DOS/WIN, Linux or Mac version now! But don't forget to register! (simply type REGISTER in the body and press the send button...)

Alan documentation version 2.8 available! Read it on line or download it! You can read about the differences or view a detailed log of the changes.

Alan Tutorial available! Read it now! See sample Alan code! Find answers to Frequently Asked Questions. Review the publicly available games. Follow links to other interesting IF-sites.