Martin DeMello wrote:

>Leslie Viljoen <leslie / camary.co.za> wrote:
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>>I have written a few text adventures in TADS, the Texts
>>Adventure Development System. The system is excellent
>>and I highly recommend it, but since learning Ruby I've wanted
>>something similar to TADS in Ruby. The only reference to such
>>a project I could find was the Quiz 49: http://www.rubyquiz.com/quiz49.html
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>Offtopic, but I was wondering what made you prefer TADS to Inform.
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I can't actually remember why. Way back when I started with IF I made
an effort to compare the two and TADS came out ahead. I do remember
making use of the HTML features of TADS.. since I'm always getting
lost, my game had an automatic graphical map builder which grew as you
went along, a lot like the Magnetic Scrolls games' map window.

L