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==TADS games==

Games written in TADS are compiled to a platform-independent format that can be played on any computer for which a suitable [[interpreter (computer software)|interpreter]] interpreter exists. Such interpreters exist for most platforms, and in this respect, TADS closely follows the example of the original [[Infocom]] [[Z-machine]], as well as modern languages such as [[Java programming language|Java]] and [[C_sharp_programming_language | C#]].

Whereas the TADS 1 and 2 interpreters had to [[parse]] the commands entered by the player, before sending the results on to the game, TADS 3 employs a more general-purpose virtual machine, where the command-parsing is done by the game itself, akin to Inform. The rationale for this is that it is easier to customize the parser.