The new release of the Inform library, 5/12, is now available from
ftp.gmd.de (at present in the directory incoming/if-archive).
It has been four months since 5/11, and a considerable number of bugs
have been fixed, mostly obscure parser bugs but several that have come to
fame through the release of "Christminster": 50 changes in all have been
made.
There are powerful new features to handle conversation with non-player
characters.
As usual, the Changes.txt file details alterations. But see also the
second edition of the Inform Designer's Manual, also out today, which
uses library 5/12 throughout. All information in the changes file is
included in the new DM, and the DM is a better place to look for details
on the new features.
Many thanks, as ever, to all those who reported bugs.
Second Attempt
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(24 October 1995)
And after four months of testing, the day after I publish 5/12 I discover
a rather serious bug... so I've fixed it and uploaded again. The bug
was to do with a clash between the old and new conversation facilities,
and in fixing it I've rewritten and annotated the action-and-order-
processing code, which I think has needed doing for ages.
Humble apologies. But the second attempt does seem to work now: at any
rate, it plays "Curses" and all sorts of nasty examples properly.
Graham Nelson