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TADS: The Text Adventure Development System - Version 2.2
Copyright (c) 1992, 1996 by Michael J. Roberts.
All Rights Reserved.
OS/2 Port of TADS 2.2 by Stephen Granade (sgranade@phy.duke.edu)
ABOUT THIS PORT
---=========---
This is a native OS/2 port of the TADS text adventure development system.
Michael Roberts retains all rights to the program: for full details, see the
file LICENSE.TAD.
There are three executables in this package:
tadsc.exe -- TADS 2.2 compiler
tadsr.exe -- TADS 2.2 runtime
trcolor.exe -- utility to set colors for tadsr.exe
All run from the command line, and are text-based. The other files included
in this distribution are:
tads.doc -- TADS introduction documentation
tadserr.msg -- Error messages used by the TADS compiler & runtime
tadsver.dos -- Version notes for TADS 2.2
read.tad -- "Getting started" information
license.tad -- License information
adv.t -- TADS base library
std.t -- TADS base library
trivial.t -- TADS example file
goldskul.t -- Example file referred to in tads.doc
ditch.t -- "Ditch Day Drifter" example game
ditch.doc -- "Ditch Day Drifter" documentation
readme.os2 -- This file
emx.dll -- EMX DLL required by the executables
OS/2 TADS uses two (optional) environment variables, which you may set in your
config.sys file:
TADSSAVE -- Directory for saved games
TADSGAME -- Directory for .gam files
If set, TADS will prepend what's in TADSSAVE/TADSGAME to any file name
which does not already have a slash in it. For example, if you set
TADSGAME = /games/tads/gamefiles
and then type
tadsr foo.gam
then TADS will try to load the game /games/tads/gamefiles/foo.gam.
If not set, tadsr.exe will (by default) look for .gam files and write your
saved game files to the same directory as tadsr.exe is in.
ABOUT TADS
--======--
TADS is a system for writing text adventure games. It used to be a shareware
product, but since mid-1996 it has been a freeware product. Any games you
write using TADS are your property, and Mike Roberts does not charge you
royalties to distribute them. For more information, see the file LICENSE.TAD.
The manuals for TADS are _not_ included in this package. What _is_ included
is the beginning documentation, tads.doc. It should be sufficient to get you
started. When you become more skilled in writing TADS games, you will
probably want to get the full TADS manual, which is available in several
different forms from ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/tads/manuals/
The file "Index" will tell you more.
Also included is a full sample game called "Ditch Day Drifter." See the file
ditch.doc for more information.
IF YOU FIND A BUG
---===========---
...report it to me at the address below. I maintain this port, and so am the
person to bother if something is wrong with the program. TADS exists on
DOS, Macintosh, Amiga, and Unix computers (to name a few), so we're pretty
sure the base TADS program works just fine. My port, however...
I may be reached at sgranade@phy.duke.edu.
Many thanks to Gerhard Hoogterp and Adam Thornton for initial beta-testing.
OS/2 VERSION HISTORY
----============----
TADS 2.2.1.0
OS/2 Patchlevel 1
2-18-97
My first package release for OS/2.