JACL Adventure Creation Language / News: Recent posts

JACL 2.3.14 is now available for download. Several bug fixes and new features including increase control over object disambiguation.

JACL 2.2 is now released as Windows and Linux binary packages. This version has new route-finding commands based on code contributed by David Fisher. Fixed several other bugs have also been made as well as further editing and expansion of the manual.

Many enhancements and bug fixes, completely re-written parser, ported to Glk.

* Fixed some scoping related bugs in verbs.library.

* Fixed bug in verbs.library caused by incorrect case of compass direction constants.

* Fixed bug in interpreters where mass of locations was being set to SCENERY by default and later being read as in invalid exit.

* Fixed bug in BlackJACL where '$integer' was still being read instead of the new 'integer' array.

* Fixed bug in proxy command of cgijacl.

* Proxy command now calls eachturn functions and increments TOTAL_MOVES.

* Fixed bug with storage of last_command causing crash when using 'again' command.

* 'parent_of' function now tests for an object that is its own parent.

* The validity of 'HERE' now is always checked before being read and now prints an error message and terminates instead of crashing.... read more

* Fixed bug in jpp causing seg fault on bad #include directive, now produces error message.

* Interpreters now check at the end of each move if the player still has a legal parent object, now produces error message if not.

* Interpreters now check for properties defined before the first object or location.

* Interpreters now check for duplicate labels when defining objects, variables, constants and strings.... read more

* Variables and string constants can now be created as arrays.

* Arguments passed to a function are now accessed through an array on constants.

* Added while loops for iterations that may happen 0 times.

* Changed syntax for passing arguments to a function to allow function calls to be processed as a single expression.

* Added return command to return any integer value from a function.

* A function call can now be used wherever a value is expected.... read more

JACL v1.12 is now available for download. This release contains many new features and bug fixes as well as completely edited and revised documentation.

This release is currently only available as source code. Simply run 'make install' from the src directory (MS Windows requires Cygwin).

The current version of JACL (1.11) has been migrated from CVS to SVN. To obtain a copy, use the command:

svn co https://jacl.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/jacl jacl/trunk