Category talk:Alan games

Alan interpreters

Would it be useful to make clear that (just like ADRIFT, but unlike TADS, for instance) you must use different interpreters to play games written with Alan 2 and Alan 3? It wasn't obvious for me, the first time I tried to play an Alan 2 game (and indeed an ADRIFT 3.90 game, too...) --Eriorg 13:04, 20 December 2006 (EST)

Yeah, that probably would be a nice bit to add in there. And I'm sure that there are older TADS interpreters that can only handle TADS 2 games. (Reasonably sure, anyway. It's not something I've tested.) -- David Welbourn 13:13, 20 December 2006 (EST)

Maybe there are such TADS interpreters, but that's not the same problem: if you use the latest interpreters (at least, HTML TADS on Windows is like that), you can play both TADS 2 and TADS 3 games without any problems. If you use the latest Alan 3 (or ADRIFT 4) interpreter, you can't play Alan 2 (or ADRIFT 3.90) games at all with it! And the older interpreters were not quite as easy to find on the official websites as the new ones, if I remember correctly. --Eriorg 13:37, 20 December 2006 (EST)

Okay, I added a line to the category page. Does it look okay to you now? -- David Welbourn 14:03, 20 December 2006 (EST)

That's fine. Thank you!--Eriorg 14:08, 20 December 2006 (EST)