TADS 3

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Name TADS 3
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Extension(s) .t .t3
MIME Type(s) application/x-t3vm-image


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Description

TADS 3 (Text Adventure Development System) is an Interactive Fiction development system by Michael J. Roberts. Plain text source code files are created using the TADS 3 programming language, and then compiled into a system-independent game file. Compiled game files can be played on any system that has an appropriate interpreter.

TADS 3 is the current version of TADS, and is not compatible with previous versions. See TADS for information on the older system.

Extensions

  • .t: Source code file
  • .t3: Compiled game file

Compilers

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

Interpreters

  • HTML TADS Interpreter (Windows, freeware, website): the official TADS 2 and TADS 3 interpreter with full multimedia support. Despite the name, it does not run on the web.
  • QTads (cross-platform, open source, website): a TADS 2 and TADS 3 interpreter with full multimedia support

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Compiled Games

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