BSD Ports

wip/frobtads 2.0 NetBSD

Portable TADS toolkit

System
NetBSD
Repository
pkgsrc-wip
Maintainer
[email protected]
Categories
wip, games

Description

FrobTADS has been written as a replacement for the "traditional" Unix-port of TADS, which has many problems and limitations, and is difficult to maintain and change. The FrobTADS interpreter also provides some features that the traditional Unix-port lacks, the most important of them being:

  • Automatic configuration prior to building; no need to edit makefiles.
  • TADS 3 color support and configurable default colors.
  • Correct timing with timed operations (millisecond-precision).
  • Input like in Frotz; cursor keys, insert, delete, etc., instead of Emacs-like input.
  • TADS 3 banners look as they should.
  • You are not required to install the package prior to running the TADS 3 test suite.
  • File I/O initiated by the game will happen in the game's directory. This means that you don't have to change to the game's directory prior to starting the interpreter.
  • Less source code (and also less complex), more comments.
  • More portable.

The ultimate goal is to make FrobTADS compile and run out-of-the-box on every system that has a curses library and a Unix-like shell available.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
NetBSDwip/frobtads2.0
FreeBSDgames/frobtads2.0_1
HardenedBSDgames/frobtads2.0_1
GhostBSDgames/frobtads2.0_1

Install

From pkgsrc-wip (no binary package):

cd /usr/pkgsrc/wip/frobtads && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 2

No port depends on this one.