qtads ☆

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Description:
TADS multimedia interpreter

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Multimedia

Tags: tads interactive-fiction games multimedia interpreter

Install: brew install qtads

About:
Qtads is a cross-platform interpreter for TADS (Text Adventure Development System) games, providing a modern GUI frontend for interactive fiction. It supports multimedia elements like sound, images, and video within games, offering a high-quality experience for playing classic and modern text adventures.

Key Features:

Cross-platform GUI interpreter for TADS 2 and TADS 3 games
Supports multimedia content including audio, images, and video
High-quality typography and rendering for enhanced readability
Native look and feel on macOS, Windows, and Linux

Use Cases:

Playing interactive fiction and text adventure games
Developing and testing TADS games with a graphical frontend
Experiencing multimedia-enhanced text adventures

Alternatives:

frotz – Standard interpreter for Z-machine games (Infocom format), not compatible with TADS
tadsr – Command-line only TADS interpreter, lacks multimedia and GUI features

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 30, 2025 8:01pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	347f336a
Sep 16, 2025 5:59pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	df7b3769