Welcome to XTads pre-beta 6 (2017-10-21)

XTads is a TADS 2/3 interpreter for Mac OS X (version 10.9 and higher).

It's a GUI application, with native Mac OS X look and feel. Game output is text-only, with limited/simplistic support for HTML.

This is still a work in progress. Expect bugs, and please report them to runeberg76@gmail.com

Follow XTads news at https://xtadsetc.com

XTads is open source, and builds on the work of others. Please take the time to look at the About XTads panels.

Thanks for testing!
- Rune

New in pre-beta 6 (2017-10-21)

Fixed (or greatly alleviated, at least) a serious performance issue to do with window/view resizing as the amount of buffered text grew. TADS 2 games using HTML output were especially affected.
Right and center aligned text in banners now updates continually as window gets resized.

Bug-fix: changing background colour of main output area didn't work
Source code fix: character set translation files (.tcp) were missing from source structure, preventing build

Just unpack the XTads-prebeta-5.zip file, and move the app to your Applications folder.

Cmd-R Reload and restart current game
Cmd-A Select all text, either the command being typed or the scrollback buffer, depending on cursor position
Ctrl-K Delete any text after cursor (in the command being typed)
Ctrl-A Move cursor to start of line
Ctrl-E Move cursor to end of line
Arrow Up/Down Recall previous commands

XTads currently lacks support for some features, most notably:

Hopefully these areas can be improved upon in future versions.

Some games exhibit (mostly minor) formatting issues when played with XTads, typically due to lack of full HTML support.