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What is Workbench? Workbench for Macintosh is a program for creating text adventures using the TADS 3 programming language. The Text Adventure Development System is a powerful programming language that runs on almost any operating system (including Windows, various Unices and Linuxes, and even Amiga), coupled with an ingenious library that already implements a parser for user commands. I want All the Glorious Details! Workbench for Macintosh is actually merely a GUI front-end around the command-line compiler for MacOS X (or rather, for Darwin). The compiler is however embedded inside the application's bundle, which means you do not have to install anything special. Use it just like any other Mac application. The advantage of this is that when a new version of the TADS 3 compiler (t3make), e.g. via Fink becomes available, you can just replace the one inside Workbench and you don't have to wait for Uli to get into gear. |