## Welcome to XTads pre-beta 5 (2017-08-09)

XTads is a TADS 2/3 interpreter for Mac OS X (version 10.9 and higher).

It's a GUI application, with native Mac OS X look and feel. Game output is text-only, with limited/simplistic support for HTML.

This is still a work in progress. Expect bugs, and please report them to runeberg76@gmail.com

Follow XTads news at https://xtadsetc.com

XTads is open source, and builds on the work of others. Please take the time to look at the About XTads panels.

Thanks for testing! - Rune

## New in pre-beta 5 (2017-08-09)

- Fixed (or greatly alleviated, at least) a serious performance issue to do with window/view resizing as the amount of buffered text grew. TADS 2 games using HTML output were especially affected.
- Right and center aligned text in banners now updates continually as window gets resized.

## New in pre-beta 4 (2017-07-31)

- Bug-fix: changing background colour of main output area didn't work
- Source code fix: character set translation files (.tcp) were missing from source structure, preventing build

## New in pre-beta 3 (2017-07-25)

- Support for banners (except more-prompts)
- Full support for the <tab> tag
- Improvements in text formatting
- Misc. bug-fixes

## Installing

Just unpack the XTads-prebeta-5.zip file, and move the app to your Applications folder.

## Extra keyboard shortcuts

- Cmd-R Reload and restart current game
- Cmd-A Select all text, either the command being typed or the scrollback buffer, depending on cursor position
- Ctrl-K Delete any text after cursor (in the command being typed)
- Ctrl-A Move cursor to start of line
- Ctrl-E Move cursor to end of line
- Arrow Up/Down Recall previous commands

## Missing features

XTads currently lacks support for some features, most notably:

- Images and sound
- Text and background colours (when set by games)
- Full HTML TADS coverage
- Timed input

Hopefully these areas can be improved upon in future versions.

Some games exhibit (mostly minor) formatting issues when played with XTads, typically due to lack of full HTML support.