FrobTADS is a complete rewrite of the Unix console-version of TADS ("Text Adventure Development System"). It uses curses (or ncurses) and provides an interpreter to play games developed with TADS as well as the TADS 2 and 3 development tools. It adds support for a number of relatively recent user interface features including full support for text and background colors, TADS 3 banner windows, and timed input. It's also much more portable and more easily maintainable, as it's built to modern Unix standards.
License: Freely Distributable
Changes:
The interpreter uses regular ASCII by default to avoid display problems with apostrophes and quotes. Compilation problems with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), Intel C++, Solaris 10, and the Linux version of the Sun Studio compilers have been fixed. FrobTADS should now compile and run correctly as a 64-bit binary and be easier to cross-compile without modifying any code. The PDCurses library is now correctly detected when building. It will be used if neither ncurses nor curses is found.
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