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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 pro-
     gramming 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  Entertain-
     ment,  Level  9,  etc). If you liked games like "Zork", "Adventure", "Trin-
     ity", 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   <re-
     alnc@gmail.com>.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
     The  reference implementation of the TADS VM was done by Mike Roberts. Sev-
     eral 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)

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