TADS

TADS is a programming system for creating interactive fiction games. The name is an acronym for "Text Adventure Development System".

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The original TADS 1 was released by High Energy Software as shareware in the late 1980s, and was followed by TADS 2 not long after.

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In the early 1990s, TADS established itself as the number one development tool for interactive fiction, in place of simpler systems like AGT (Adventure Game Toolkit).

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However, Graham Nelson's Inform has, since its release in 1993, slowly gained popularity and superseded TADS in the last half of the 1990s.

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