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'''ALAN 3''' is an [[Interactive Fiction|interactive fiction]] system first created as a successor to [[ALAN 2]] around 2002<ref>[https://bitbucket.org/alanif/alan], commit f00b9d4a535486a485bb55640f3f074ec891eeab: changes the magic number, which is an early reference to the version 3 format</ref>, and officially replacing ALAN 2 in 2005<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20050728095717/http://www.alanif.se/, section "News" and "Version 3 in the Works"</ref>. As with most interactive fiction systems, it uses two formats: a "source" format, which is human-readable and -editable, and a "compiled" format which is run by an interpreter.

ALAN 3 can by run with [[Gargoyle]] using a plugin distributed from the ALAN 3 website.

== Extensions ==
Source files use the extension .alan, as did ALAN 2. Compiled files use the extension .a3c. Unlike ALAN 2, which is a multi-file format, ALAN 3 games have no accompanying .dat file.

== Identification ==
.alan files have no magic number, but they probably contain the [[ASCII]] strings "verb", "isa", "does", "the", "end verb", and "exit", with varying capitalization.

a3d files start with the ASCII magic number {{magic|ALAN}}.

== Software ==
* [https://www.alanif.se/index.php/download-v3/official-releases/ The ALAN 3 website's downloads section]
* [https://bitbucket.org/alanif/alan The ALAN 3 source code on BitBucket]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100811184640/http://www.alanif.se/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=25&view=finish&cid=13&catid=10 Source code to an early (3.0 alpha 7, 2010) release]
* [http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/alan3/ The IF Archive "programming" section on ALAN 3]

== Sample Files ==
* [http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/alan/ A mix of ALAN 2 and ALAN 3 games in the IF Archive. Mostly .a3c.]
* [https://www.alanif.se/download-v3/official-releases/documentation/documentation-library-intro-example-v0-2/alanintrosamples-zip?format=raw .alan files showing use of the standard library]

== Links ==
* [http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Alan The Interactive Fiction Wiki entry on "Alan" (originally describing ALAN 2 but partially updated for ALAN 3 when it was released)]
* [https://www.alanif.se/downloads/documentation/manual.pdf The ALAN 3 reference manual]

== References ==
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 == Extensions ==
-Source files use the extension .alan, as did ALAN 2. Compiled files use the extension .a3c. Unlike ALAN 2, which is a multi-file format, ALAN 3 games have no accompanying .dat file.
+Source files use the extension .alan, as did with ALAN 2. Compiled files use the extension .a3c. Unlike ALAN 2, which is a multi-file format, ALAN 3 games have no accompanying .dat file.
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ALAN 3 - Revision history

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