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Recently, TADS received a major overhaul with the release of TADS 3, which is a complete rewrite of the TADS engine, only retaining the platform-dependent code to ease [[porting]]. TADS 3 has many new features, such as efficient dynamic objects (with [[garbage collection (computer science)|automatic garbage collection]]), structured [[Exception handling|exceptions]], native [[UTF-8]] strings, and many useful function classes.

According to the [http://www.tads.org official TADS website], as of [[August 2005]], the TADS 3 system is in its [[Development stage#Release candidate|release candidate]] stage[http://www.tads.org/t3dl.htm]. While TADS 3 is still subject to last-minute changes, and while its documentation is incomplete, theThe TADS 3 [[compiler]] and [[interpreter (computing)|interpreter]] are stable and they have been ported to the [[Unix]], [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]] and [[DOS]] [[platform (computing)|platforms]]. Several TADS 3 games have already appeared in the [[2002]], [[2003]], [[2004]], and [[2005]] [[Interactive Fiction Competition|IF Competitions]].

==TADS games==