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	TADS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Recently, TADS received a major overhaul with the release of TADS 3, which is a complete rewrite of the TADS engine, only retaining the platform-dependent code to ease porting.
		While TADS 3 is still subject to last-minute changes, and while its documentation is incomplete, the TADS 3 compiler and interpreter are stable and they have been ported to the Unix, Macintosh and DOS platforms.
		Whereas the TADS 1 and 2 VMs had to parse the commands entered by the player, before sending the results on to the game, TADS 3 employs a more general-purpose virtual machine, where the command-parsing is done by the game code itself, akin to Inform.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/TADS (565 words)

	New Features in TADS 3
		TADS 3 has an automatic garbage collector that keeps track of which objects are accessible and which have become unreachable, and automatically deletes unreachable objects.
		TADS 3 uses a better random number generator algorithm than past versions, and provides more convenient access: the random number generator can randomly pick a value from a list or from an argument list, in addition to its traditional generation of a random integer.
		TADS 3 has new syntax that lets you handle arguments to a varying-argument function as a list, and to pass a list value as a varying-argument list to a function.
	home.pacbell.net /mjr_/tads3new.htm (971 words)

	TADS Tip 2: The Subtleties of Whitepsace
		The ones that TADS uses are the space, the newline, the tab and the line break.
		Thus we have escaped the space, forcing it to be ignored by the TADS whitespace formatter.
		So you can see that TADS followed that rule: there was one space (we could have put in a dozen and ended up with the same result) and TADS reformatted it to have two spaces.
	www.ministryofpeace.com /if/tads/tips/tip_0002.html (1212 words)

	Tads - Goodfellow Unit \| Medical & Health Sciences, University of Auckland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		TADS training is now becoming recognised by many general practitioners, practice nurses and other primary health care professionals throughout New Zealand, as a basic core requirement training for primary health and primary mental health care delivery in the PHO, community and DHB environments.
		The approach has enabled TADS to be a needs based, responsive educational service for a range of grass roots community health workers through to primary health care and secondary care professionals.
		TADS education and training workshops are directed at a wide range of first contact workers in the community, primary health care settings and secondary care interface, in response to their particular needs.
	www.health.auckland.ac.nz /goodfellow/contracts/tads.html (933 words)

	TADS, the Text Adventure Development System
		TADS, by Michael Roberts, is an object-oriented IF lanugage with strong ties to the C programming language, and is my language of choice.
		TADS Book of the Parser, which explains in detail how the parser works.
		WorldClass, by Dave Baggett, is a library of new classes for TADS.
	www.duke.edu /~srg3/IFprogramming/tads.html (1055 words)

	TADS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tads adventures work in a similar way to Infocom adventures (using FrotzS5) except they use a completely different format and are not compatible with each other.
		The Tads engine itself has not been changed, there is a wrapper for the user interaction that interfaces with EPOC using a multithreaded architecture to make the porting easier.
		Tads is itself copyright of Michael J. Roberts, the EPOC specific portions are under Simon Quinn's copyright 2001.
	www.geocities.com /epocif/tads.html (209 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		TADS consists of 3 parts, the compiler, the debugger and the player.
		Lots of TADS games can be found on the Internet at the ftp site ftp.gmd.de in the directories /if-archive/games/tads and /if-archive/games/adventions The full TADS package for many different machines can be found at the same site, in /if-archive/programming/tads Kickstart 2.04 or better is required for this version of TADS.
		Using the TADS compiler and debugger ------------------------------------ The compiler for TADS games is called "tc" (on other systems it is sometimes refered to as "TADS Compiler" or "TADSc"), and may only be run from the Shell.
	ftp.sunet.se /pub/aminet/game/role/TADS2210.readme (533 words)

	TADS vs Inform - a (vaguely) in-depth comparison
		In fact, TADS games currently can't even tell if they are being run on a graphics or non-graphics interpreter, which may cause problems (but this is going to be changed soon, so soon that I'm mentioning it here and not in the "future issues" section).
		It would be possible to add string compression to TADS games which would reduce their size by a fair amount, and it would be also possible to reduce the size of their save files (although TADS' true dynamic creation makes this more difficult).
		TADS' base foreign language support may change, though I'm a little doubtful if this is a top priority due to (as far as I see) little demand.
	www.cs.wisc.edu /~dbs/tads-vs-inform.html (1488 words)

	TADS Overview
		TADS is a powerful object-oriented language with high-level string and list datatypes and syntax specially designed to make adventure game object definitions concise and readable.
		The TADS source code was originally designed for easy portability and has had its portability honed with years of experience on a wide range of systems.
		Currently, the official version of TADS is TADS 2.5.x (the x is a minor patch number that changes from time to time; it signifies only minor changes for bug fixes and small features, not major feature upgrades).
	www.tads.org /tads.htm (1437 words)

	TADS China
		TADS™ is designed to inspect journal bearings and other components of railcars.
		TADS™ was compared to a similar product from another supplier.
		By the end of 2005, a total of 28 TADS™ units are expected to be installed or delivered in China.
	www.aar.com /news-tads_china.htm (315 words)

	Tax Allocation Districts
		Eleven TADs have been established in metropolitan Atlanta in the past five years (nine within the last two), and Atlanta officials are now considering their use for the proposed Belt Line project.
		“TADs have been beneficial, yet any decision-maker considering one for his or her area should be aware that this policy tool is not without cost or risk,” says Bourdeaux, an assistant professor of public administration and urban studies.
		In their report, Bourdeaux and Matthews recommend that municipalities conduct careful feasibility, fiscal-impact and cost-benefit analysis of all proposed TAD projects and be conservative in estimating revenues from TADs.
	aysps.gsu.edu /news/release/tad.htm (593 words)

	TADS - Preventing Railroad Accidents - Brüel & Kjær
		TADS can detect the symptoms of bearing failure at a much earlier stage than hot bearing detectors and so avoid possible derailments with the inevitable consequences of cost, safety, disruption to the network, etc.”.
		A TADS installation uses an optimised array of microphones located on each side of the track, in special cabinets that protect them from damaging environmental conditions.
		In addition, because of the isolated locations of many TADS sites, we specify microphone calibration only every two years and therefore the performance of each microphone must be continuously accurate and repeatable, and system reliability is a premium.
	www.bksv.com /?ID=3260 (777 words)

	news
		TADS put on a Theatrical Extravaganza at York Barn in Tredington which was organised by Cheltenham North Rotary for charity.
		TADS are going to enter the All England One-Act Play Festival next year.
		TADS are currently rehearsing the play “Educating Rita” by Willy Russell.
	www.tads.org.uk /news.htm (234 words)

	TADS - Tuition Aid Data Services -- TADS Explained: Formula Customization
		TADS allows financial aid administrators to adjust many of the values that are used to calculate HCE so the results more accurately reflect the philosophy and values of the school.
		TADS believes these adjustments should be established before need is determined rather than after and that some formula values should be based on local standards rather than those used nationally.
		TADS staff is available to assist administrators and parents via phone, email or real-time web chat.
	www.tuitionaid.com /tads_for.asp (342 words)

	ONLamp.com -- Choosing a Language for Interactive Fiction
		TADS was the first IF language to gain wide acceptance and has remained popular ever since.
		TADS is programmer-friendly in several ways: the developer kit includes a fantastically useful graphical debugger, and the syntax will be more familiar to developers with a background in C-like languages.
		TADS 2 has several serious limitations: the parser and library are inseparable, making non-English games nearly impossible, and no game can compile without a standard IF game loop in place, limiting the possibility of true experimentation.
	www.onlamp.com /pub/a/onlamp/2004/11/24/interactive_fiction.html (2789 words)

	Case Study, TADS telephone access data collection system telephony software
		Home care services are provided for patients by a large number of hospitals, in addition to home care agencies.
		TADS® offers an alternative by allowing personnel to call in data directly to a database located at headquarters.
		TADS Home ~ Demonstrations ~ Case Study ~ Flow Chart
	www.tads.com /casestudy.htm (610 words)

	TADS 3 TOUR GUIDE
		The TADS 3 Tour Guide is designed to give a reasonably systematic tour of the main version of the TADS 3.0.9 library.
		The approach taken by the TADS 3 Tour Guide is to develop a sample game step-by-step, in such a fashion that most (or at least many) of the main classes of use to authors are covered in a reasonably systematic fashion.
		A further resource you may find useful for learning and using TADS 3 is the set of library proto-documentation files (in HTML format) generated by Edward Stauff's DocGen tool.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~manc0049/TADSGuide/intro.htm (741 words)

	[No title]
		Machine independent.gam file and TADS runtime for DOS (see games/amiga/GoldenFleece.dms for an Amiga version and games/pc/fleece.zip for the 1989 DOS version) [file is linked to games/pc/gfleece.zip] gna.zip Generic New York Apartment Building, a work of adult interactive fiction by NewKid.
		Machine independent.gam file and TADS runtime for DOS (see games/amiga/Mission.zip for an Amiga version) [file is linked to games/pc/mission.zip] modern.gam Modernism version 1.0, by Jacob Solomon Weinstein, includes both "Waiting for Godot" and "No Exit" mrsk.zip Magic Realms: The Sword of Kasza, by James Mallette.
		A short TADS adventure in which you are a sort of 'interplanetary trucker' making a run with a load of bananas.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/interactive-fiction/games/tads/Index (3347 words)

	Index: if-archive/programming/tads2/executables (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		QTads 1.6c, a combined TADS 2 and TADS 3 run-time for Linux using the Qt 3.3 library, by Nikos Chantziaras.
		TADS version 2.5.5 executables (runtime, compiler, and debugger) for MacOS X. The executables are Darwin terminal applications.
		TADS version 2.5.5 executables for Symbian 7.0s Series 80 devices (such as the Nokia 9500), based on Simon Quinn's EPOC port.
	ifarchive.org /indexes/if-archiveXprogrammingXtads2Xexecutables.html (426 words)

	Mike's link page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		TADS stands for the Text Adventure Development System; it is a programming system I designed for creating interactive fiction.
		TADS 3 Author's Kit for Windows; this release has the system's foundation in place, but is not quite a complete package for game authors yet.
		For the past five years, the readers of the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.int-fiction have held an annual competition for short works of interactive fiction.
	home.pacbell.net /mjr_ (419 words)

	Playing TADS Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		TADS games can be run on most popular modern computers.
		TADS games consist of two pieces - the game file itself, and a generic interpreter or runtime program that is specifically written for each computer operating system.
		However, HTML TADS for Win32 was at version 2.2.6, and was also based on TADS 2.2.6.
	tela.bc.ca /tads/playing (672 words)

	TADS 3 SplitGame Library Module (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is a library module for the TADS 3 programing language.
		This module uses 'replace' and 'modify' to make some pretty extensive changes to parts of the standard TADS library that game authors are generally not expected to touch.
		The only version of the TADS library that this module has been tested with is 3.0.8.
	www.tinaa.com /~trask/if/splitgame (245 words)

	TADS Two & Adventure Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		TADS is geared towards the prose variety of this sort of thing, but it does allow for sounds, music and illustrations.
		TADS isn't a simple system for writers to use.
		The definitive reference on what you can do with TADS, and how you would go about doing it, is the TADS Author's Manual.
	users.abac.com /MeriBird/TADS (294 words)

	c&bp12.2
		TADS was specifically designed as a comprehensive effectiveness study, able to answer clinically meaningful questions by including a broad and representative sample of depressed teens, delivering treatment at both tertiary medical centers and community clinics, and assessing functional as well as symptomatic outcomes.
		The TADS CBT Committee reviewed meta-analyses of child and adolescent psychotherapy as well as studies of CBT for childhood and adolescent depression, relied on expert consultants, and evaluated the treatment process in a feasibility study to derive the essential components of TADS CBT.
		We describe the attempts within the TADS study to ensure an appropriate representation of families of color; a description of the age, and of the length and severity of depression of the African-American and Latino adolescents who participated in the TADS trial.
	www.aabt.org /publication/cbp/c&bp12.2.html (2454 words)

	The Story Central DeKalb: DeKalb school board speaks out on TADs as deadline nears (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For a TAD to have maximum value, it would need to be approved by the end of 2005 so that the tax could be collected beginning on Jan. 1, 2006.
		When TADs are established, a city or county collects into a special fund any incremental growth in the tax revenue spurred by the redevelopment of the districts for the next 25 or 30 years.
		Since the lion’s share of the property tax millage rate goes to fund schools, establishing a TAD without the Board of Education’s portion would not be nearly as profitable.
	www.communityreview.net /gbase/Expedite/Content?oid=oid:2426 (882 words)

	TADS - A Tool for the Analysis of Dynamical Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		TADS is a program for the qualitive analysis of dynamical continous-time systems.
		TADS runs under different UNIX versions and has a (very) simple text interface for the input.
		You are free to use TADS for noncommercial purposes.
	www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de /iee/ge/sfb/tads (114 words)

	The Story Central DeKalb: DeKalb Creates TADs to Spur Redevelopment on Memorial and Columbia Drives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The TADs are still being studied by the Board of Education, which has not met as a whole to discuss them, according to Debbie Loeb, assistant to School Superintendent Dr. Crawford Lewis.
		Eleven other TADs were established in the Atlanta metro area from 1998 to 2003, according to a report by researchers at Georgia State University's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.
		These restrictions deal with the amount of TAD bonds, the length of the TADs, and the return of any unused tax increments left over at the end of each year to the participating jurisdictions.
	www.communityreview.net /gbase/Expedite/Content?oid=oid:1511 (829 words)

	QTads, an interpreter for Tads games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		QTads is a GUI interpreter for Tads games, running under Unix-based systems (it has been tested in Linux, Mac OS X and FreeBSD, but it should compile and run in many more, like Solaris and Irix).
		Tads is a programming language for implementing Interactive Fiction (text-adventures).
		Multimedia Tads Character Entity support, which means that typographical quotes, dashes and other special characters are available in both Tads 3 as well as Tads 2.
	qtads.sourceforge.net (1381 words)

	Welcome to TADS.ORG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		TADS is a freeware programming system that can help you create high-quality interactive fiction.
		TADS interpreters come in two varieties: text-only and multimedia.
		Most TADS games can be used with screen-reader software, which makes them accessible to people with vision impairments.
	www.tads.org (242 words)

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