Hi to text adventure players/authors.

To those old-school and retro text adventure program fans and/or authors who used 80's adventure utilities to play and write adventures on different platforms such as ZXSpectrum, BBC, Commodore64, Acorn Electron etc.

The "ThinBASIC Adventure Builder" (aka T.A.B.) is my retro text adventure creator for WINDOWS. It works on Windows XP/Vista/7/8/and above.

http://tab.thinbasic.com/

TAB is a kind of Quill/PAW replicant or variant, works on similar principles, and runs on WINDOWS only.

Good for maybe converting "old" text adventures; or perhaps writing a new game from scratch

Here is a playlist I recently updated:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDzqQv2L35w&list=PL95a578Z0BR0Z3PP9rv1cFPnXjQ4zD5DG

Regards,
catventure.

to GameBoomers, catventure, and thank you for the info and for the links.

I was a big player of Infocom text adventures back in the day.

to GameBoomers! Thanks for the info.

Ana

Hi, Marian!

Oh me too! In fact, when I bought my very first computer in 1986, "Infocom" games were the only ones I played and "Wishbringer" started it all ! I had pages and pages of maps and it took me forever to finish.

Susan

Thanx for your welcome, guys!

I'm happy to have brought back some memories from the golden era of text adventuring!

I was a big fan too of the Level 9 suite of adventures (UK)and fondly remember, as a novice, the three months taken to solve "Snowball" (even with some clues from the publisher)
Happy Days...

Regards,
catventure.

catventure and thanks for the info.

Hi,

Just a quickie to let you know this program is still alive!

The free, parser-based TAB retro text adventure creator for WIndows has recently been updated on 21 Aug 2023.




http://tab.thinbasic.com/

Regards,
catventure.