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NAME

       QTads - Multimedia interpreter for TADS games

SYNOPSIS

       qtads [ game-file ]

DESCRIPTION

       QTads  is  an  interpreter  that  can  run games written in TADS. TADS is a programming language written by Michael J. Roberts, designed to
       implement text-adventure games (Interactive Fiction), similar to those developed by Infocom in 1980-1990, as well as other companies  (like
       Legend  Entertainment,  Level  9, etc). If you liked games like "Zork", "Adventure", "Trinity", or "Eric the Unready", you'll feel right at
       home.

       This version of QTads supports both TADS versions in use today; traditional TADS 2 as well as the new TADS 3 format. It runs on	a  variety
       of systems, including MS Windows and every Unix system for which the Qt library is available, including Linux and Mac OSX.

OPTIONS

       With no arguments, QTads will by default ask you for a filename, unless this prompting has been disabled in the configuration dialog.

       The optional filename can be used to start a game immediately.

LICENSE

       QTads  is  a  Free program, dual-licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) as well as the HTML TADS Freeware Source Code License.
       See the file COPYING (included in the package of the program), or the "Help->About" menu for details.

AUTHORS

       This program is written and maintained by Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       The reference implementation of the TADS VM was done by Mike Roberts. Several people helped making QTads a better  program.  See  the  file
       CREDITS or the "Help->About" menu for a list of names.

SEE ALSO

       frotz(6), inform(1)

								    April 2010								  QTADS(6)