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== Links ==
 
== Links ==
[http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Rexx-Adventure Rexx-Adventure on the Interactive Fiction Wiki]
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* [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]
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* [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]
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160801012753/http://www.xyzzynews.com/xyzzy.7h.html A short essay by Mike DeSanto about Rexx-Adventure]
  
 
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Revision as of 02:00, 18 March 2019

File Format
Name Rexx-Adventure
Ontology
Extension(s) .rad
Released 1995

Rexx-Adventure is an interactive fiction system created in 1995 by Mike DeSanto for OS/2 conceptually based on 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.[1]

Rexx-Adventure apparently uses a separate savegame format.

Contents

Extensions

Rexx-Adventure source files have the extension .rad (.RAD due to OS/2 naming conventions).[1]

Identification

Skipping lines beginning with semicolons, the first line of a .rad file should start with ASCII Title:, the second PlayerNumber:, and the third GlobalNum:. [2]

Links

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/rexx-adventure/RADF100.zip → README.TXT, section "Game source files (.RAD) and Game Command Files (.CMD)"
  2. http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/rexx-adventure/RADF100.zip → REXXADV.DOC, section "Creating Rexx-Adventure games", subsections "Overview" and "Line Type Definitions"
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