QTADS(6)

💖 NAME 💖

QTads — a multimedia interpreter for TADS games, bestie. That's the whole vibe.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

qtads [ game-file ]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Okay so. QTads is an interpreter, which basically means it's the thing that runs games written in TADS. And TADS? TADS is a programming language written by Michael J. Roberts — yes, the icon himself — and it was designed to build text-adventure games (aka Interactive Fiction), kinda like the ones Infocom was dropping in 1980-1990, plus other companies doing the same thing (think Legend Entertainment, Level 9, etc.). If you were obsessed with games like "Zork", "Adventure", "Trinity", or "Eric the Unready", then bestie, you will feel right at home. No cap. 🏠💅

This version of QTads supports both TADS versions in use today: traditional TADS 2 and the newer TADS 3 format. It runs on a whole bunch of systems too, including MS Windows and every Unix system for which the Qt library is available — Linux and Mac OSX included. It's giving ✨everywhere✨ energy. 🌈

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• With zero arguments, QTads will, by default, ask you for a filename — unless this prompting has been disabled in the configuration dialog. (Yes, it can be turned off. Choices were made.)
• The optional filename can be used to start a game immediately. Instant main character energy. 👑

📜 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. For the deets, see the file COPYING (it's included in the package of the program), or hit up the "Help->About" menu. Slay. 🫶

👑 AUTHORS 👑

This program is written and maintained by Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>. Protect him at all costs. 💖

🌸 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 🌸

The reference implementation of the TADS VM was done by Mike Roberts. Legend behavior. 💀✨

Several people helped make QTads a better program — see the file CREDITS or the "Help->About" menu for a list of names. Group project, and they ate. 🎀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• frotz(6)
• inform(1)

And that's the whole page, bestie! This was the QTads(6) manual page — User Manuals, dated April 2010, version QTADS(6). Stay iconic, go play some Interactive Fiction, and remember: prompting for a filename is only disabled if you said so in the config dialog. Mwah. 💋🌸