C Adventure Toolkit

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Name C Adventure Toolkit
Ontology
Extension(s) .d
Released 1985

The C Adventure Toolkit ("CAT") is an interactive fiction system for MS-DOS and the Atari ST, written in 1985[1] by "Tony Stiles"[2]. It produces C from input files, which can then be compiled into runnable programs.

CAT has two "standard libraries": the "standard library" written in the CAT language, and the set of C sources that need to be compiled along with the generated C (in directory GENSRC.D).[3]

Contents

Extensions

The input for a single CAT compilation consists of a number of files with extension .d (.D due to DOS naming conventions), as well as an extensionless index file named "GENLIST"[3] (containing nothing but the filenames of .D files).

Identification

.d files will probably contain the strings "@rem", "@room", "@obj", and "@msg".

Links

References

  1. Dates of files in http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/cpp/cat.zip
  2. http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/cpp/cat.zip → REGISTER.TXT
  3. 3.0 3.1 http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/cpp/cat.zip → CATINTRO.TXT
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