TADS

File Format
Name	TADS
Ontology	Electronic File Formats TADS
Extension(s)	.gam (compiled), .t (source code)
MIME Type(s)	application/x-tads

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Interactive Fiction

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Description

TADS (Text Adventure Development System) is an interactive fiction development system by Michael J. Roberts. Plain text source code files are created using the TADS programming language, and then compiled into a system-independent game file.

The term "TADS", unqualified, generally refers to TADS version 2 and below. TADS 3 is the currently developed version of the platform, and it is incompatible with previous versions. See the TADS 3 page for more information on this version.

Compilers

• TADS 2 Author's Kit (Windows, freeware, website: the official TADS 2 implementation
• FrobTADS (Unix-like, freeware, website: ports of TADS 2 and TADS 3 compilers for Unix systems (including Mac OS X)

Interpreters

• HTML TADS Interpreter (Windows, freeware, website): the official TADS 2 and TADS 3 interpreter with full multimedia support
• QTads (cross-platform, open source, website): a TADS 2 and TADS 3 interpreter with full multimedia support