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'''Rexx-Adventure''' is an [[Interactive Fiction|interactive fiction]] system created in 1995 by Mike DeSanto for [[OS/2]] conceptually based on [[AGT|Adventure Game Toolkit]]. Atypically for interactive fiction systems, there is no compiler/interpreter separation and intermediate format; the Rexx-Adventure interpreter directly plays source files. Rexx-Adventure includes a GUI to try to prevent some common problems of interactive fiction formats, but it is nonetheless entirely text-based.

A Rexx-Adventure game file may optionally be accompanied by a file with the same base name but the extension .cmd (.CMD with OS/2 naming conventions) written in [[REXX]], which provides supplemental features.<ref name="files">http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/rexx-adventure/RADF100.zip → README.TXT, section "Game source files (.RAD) and Game Command Files (.CMD)"</ref>

Rexx-Adventure apparently uses [[Rexx-Adventure saved game|a separate savegame format]].

== Extensions ==
Rexx-Adventure source files have the extension .rad (.RAD due to OS/2 naming conventions).<ref name="files" />

== Identification ==
Skipping lines beginning with semicolons, the first line of a .rad file should start with ASCII <code>Title:</code>, the second <code>PlayerNumber:</code>, and the third <code>GlobalNum:</code>. <ref>http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/rexx-adventure/RADF100.zip → REXXADV.DOC, section "Creating Rexx-Adventure games", subsections "Overview" and "Line Type Definitions"</ref>

== Links ==
[http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Rexx-Adventure Rexx-Adventure on the Interactive Fiction Wiki]
[http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/rexx-adventure/RADF100.zip The single Rexx-Adventure file in the IF Archive, containing documentation, the intepreter, as well as a sample game]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20160801012753/http://www.xyzzynews.com/xyzzy.7h.html A short essay by Mike DeSanto about Rexx-Adventure]

== References ==
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 '''Rexx-Adventure''' is an [[Interactive Fiction|interactive fiction]] system created in 1995 by Mike DeSanto for [[OS/2]] conceptually based on [[AGT|Adventure Game Toolkit]]. Atypically for interactive fiction systems, there is no compiler/interpreter separation and intermediate format; the Rexx-Adventure interpreter directly plays source files. Rexx-Adventure includes a GUI to try to prevent some common problems of interactive fiction formats, but it is nonetheless entirely text-based.
-A Rexx-Adventure game file may optionally be accompanied by a file with the same base name but the extension .cmd (.CMD with OS/2 naming conventions) written in [[REXX]], which provides supplemental features.<ref name="files">http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/rexx-adventure/RADF100.zip → README.TXT, section "Game source files (.RAD) and Game Command Files (.CMD)"</ref>
+A Rexx-Adventure game file may optionally be accompanied by a file with the same base name but the extension .cmd (.CMD with OS/2 naming conventions) written in [[REXX]], which provides supplemental features.<ref name="files">http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/rexx-adventure/RADF100.zip → REXXADV.DOC, section "Game source files (.RAD) and Game Command Files (.CMD)"</ref>
 Rexx-Adventure apparently uses [[Rexx-Adventure saved game|a separate savegame format]].

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 == Links ==
-[http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Rexx-Adventure Rexx-Adventure on the Interactive Fiction Wiki]
+* [http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Rexx-Adventure Rexx-Adventure on the Interactive Fiction Wiki]
-[http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/rexx-adventure/RADF100.zip The single Rexx-Adventure file in the IF Archive, containing documentation, the intepreter, as well as a sample game]
+* [http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/rexx-adventure/RADF100.zip The single Rexx-Adventure file in the IF Archive, containing documentation, the intepreter, as well as a sample game]
-[https://web.archive.org/web/20160801012753/http://www.xyzzynews.com/xyzzy.7h.html A short essay by Mike DeSanto about Rexx-Adventure]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160801012753/http://www.xyzzynews.com/xyzzy.7h.html A short essay by Mike DeSanto about Rexx-Adventure]
 == References ==
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