I'm starting a series of blog posts about Quest 5.0. Here's the first one, by way of introduction:

http://www.axeuk.com/blog/2010/01/30/an ... quest-5-0/

Second blog post is about the new .aslx file format:

http://www.axeuk.com/blog/2010/02/01/th ... game-file/

In part three I talk all about how verbs and commands work in Quest 5.0, plus templates which are used to support multiple languages:

http://www.axeuk.com/blog/2010/02/03/ve ... quest-5-0/

Well, I'm ready to download and play around. Any chance of this being possible soon?

Yes, I'm just sorting out a few loose ends and tidying a couple of things up, and the first preview version should be available later this month.

Part four is a brief look at expressions and local variables:

http://www.axeuk.com/blog/2010/02/16/ex ... quest-5-0/

In part five, a look at a much-requested feature - undo:

http://www.axeuk.com/blog/2010/02/17/un ... quest-5-0/