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DAAD Ready

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What is DAAD Ready?

DAAD Ready is a package that contains DAAD, the evolution of other tools widely used in the 80s and 90s to create text adventures for 8 bit computers: PAWS and The Quill. Als includes a set<br>of tools that allow creating 8 bit text adventures using DAAD without needing to handle a lot of technical details.

DAAD Ready allows authors to create games in English and Spanish, and also with some limitations in French, Portuguese and German. Using it for other languages -specially those using alphabets based on the Roman alphabet- is possible, just ask me.

Download

DAAD Ready is a tool for Windows, you can download it here:Download

Some people report that works fine with Wine though, so if you use MacOS or Linux, you might want to try that.

Tutorials, Editors & Help

DAAD Ready Manual

DAAD Ready Multimedia Manual(read the main manual first)

There is a tutorial for beginners.

You can also use any text editor you want to edit DSF (DAAD Source file). VSCode has a extension for Syntax Highlight made by Chris Ainsley. Just look for DAAD in the extension manager.

There is an official Telegram group for DAAD-Ready support (https://t.me/daadready), with sub-groups for English and Spanish languages.

Repository

Although DAAD Ready is not exactly a single project but rather a bundle of many, it does have a repository where you can sometimes find the latest improvements (beyond the latest release). However, it is NOT RECOMMENDED to use it, since it is usually in active development and therefore likely to contain unknown —or even known— bugs.

DAAD Ready repository at Github

Games made with DAAD during 21st century

Aside of the original games made by Aventuras AD in the 80s and 90s, Las years have brought us a lot of games made with DAAD (whatever is DAAD-Ready or raw DAAD):

The Curse of Rabenstein

Las aventuras de Rudolphine Rur

El Hobbit

Los elfos de Maroland

El chico de los recados

La estrella de la mañana

Venganza, la sierva de la muerte(MSX2 Only)

La sorpresa

Elf

La casa al otro lado de la tormenta

Golden Seas(Spectrum Next Only, made with Adventuron-DAAD integration)

Mystery City

King's Ransom(Spectrum Next Only, made with Adventuron-DAAD integration

Rite of the Druid(Spectrum Next Only, made with Adventuron-DAAD integration)

Tantalos

Zakil Wood(MSX2 Only)

El cetro del sol

En busca del parser perdido

The Dragnet Case

The Mystery of Markham Manor

And that is only a brief list. Many other games use DAAD as engine, and some authors have used DAAD to update their old ZX Spectrum PAWS games and port them to other machines. You can find more games below:

DAAD games at CASA

DAAD games a Spectrum Computing