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TADS is a set of programming tools specially designed for writing adventure games. TADS consists of:

• A programming language, which resembles C and Java. TADS is a powerful object-oriented language with high-level string and list datatypes and syntax specially designed to make adventure game object definitions concise and readable.
• A compiler, which reads a set of source files written in the TADS programming language and produces a portable binary game file. Once you compile your game, you need only give players the compiled binary file; you don't need to distribute your source files to let people play your game. A compiled game file is completely portable - you can simply copy the file to any computer that has a TADS interpreter and run it.
• A library, which provides a set of generic adventure game definitions. The library is written in the TADS language, so you can change it or even completely replace it if you want to go outside the usual conventions. The library provides a large set of object class definitions for the kinds of things that often appear in IF games, and you can use the library classes directly or use them as building blocks to create more customized object types.
• On some systems, an interactive debugger, which lets you examine your program's execution in order to find and fix programming errors. The debugger lets you step through your source code a line at a time, examine variables, set "breakpoints" to stop execution at particular points in the code, and monitor variables to catch specific value changes. The debugger gives you a direct view of the inner workings of your program as it executes, making it much easier to track down logic errors, or just to understand how a piece of code works.
• An interpreter, which a player uses to run your game. TADS interpreters exist for many operating systems, and each version has been customized to conform to the look and feel of its operating system. Since the interpreter provides the human interface, and each interpreter is customized for its system, a TADS game automatically adopts the correct local look and feel for each system it runs on.

TADS 3

Company / developer:
  Michael J. Roberts

TADS 3 is a robust, modern programming environment specially designed for creating Interactive Fiction.

Adobe ExtendScript

Company / developer:
  Adobe Systems Incorporated

Adobe ExtendScript

The ExtendScript Toolkit (ESTK) is a development and debugging tool for JavaScript scripts included with Adobe CS3 Suites and applications such as Bridge, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and After Effects. ESTK is a new and enhanced version that allows you to create, edit and debug ExtendScript (Adobe's JavaScript language) all with an updated user interface, a new text engine, and the ability to debug more than one script at a time.

Adobe ExtendScript

Company / developer:
  Adobe Systems Incorporated

Adobe ExtendScript

The ExtendScript Toolkit (ESTK) is a development and debugging tool for JavaScript scripts included with Adobe CS3 Suites and applications such as Bridge, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and After Effects. ESTK is a new and enhanced version that allows you to create, edit and debug ExtendScript (Adobe's JavaScript language) all with an updated user interface, a new text engine, and the ability to debug more than one script at a time.

ArchiCAD

Company / developer:
  Graphisoft

ArchiCAD

ArchiCAD gives users the ability to create great architecture and increase productivity. From day one, ArchiCAD has been designed by architects for architects, and over the years it has gradually become more and more refined to allow its users to better:

• Focus on design,
  
• Manage change,
  
• Evaluate design alternatives,
  
• Collaborate,
  
• Coordinate.

ArchiCAD® offers a different approach to your workflow process, which gives you more control over your design, while maintaining accuracy and efficiency in documentation. While you raise walls, lay floors, add doors and windows, build stairs and construct roofs this Building Information Authoring Tool creates a central database of 3D model data. From this you can extract all the information needed to completely describe your design - complete plans, sections and elevations, architectural and construction details, Bills of Quantities window/door/finish schedules, renderings, animations and virtual reality scenes. That means while you're designing, ArchiCAD is creating all the project documentation so there's little repetitive and tedious drafting work. And unlike designing in 2D software, the Virtual BuildingTM approach also means that you can make changes at any time maintaining the integrity of your documents, without risking costly errors or costing you productivity.

LoseThos

Company / developer:
  Terry A. Davis

LoseThos

LoseThos is for programming as entertainment. It empowers programmers with kernel privilege because it's fun. It allows full access to everything because it's fun. It has no bureaucracy because it's fun. It's the way it is by choice because it's fun. Don't you hate ninnies who harp on the point of overusing an admin account? Not having kernel privilege, for a programmer, is like not having an admin password on your own computer!

LoseThos is in no way a Windows or Linux wannabe -- that would be pointless. LoseThos is not trying to win a prize for low resource usage or run on pathetic hardware. Low line count is a goal, though. It's 100,000 lines of code including a 64-bit compiler, tools and a graphics library.

A bigger goal is making applications low line count. "Hello World" takes one line of code. You can put graphics on the screen with two lines of code. You don't need to include header files or mess with namespaces. It has a scoping system, though, with tasks inheriting symbols of parents and all system-wide symbols and code in the Adam (as in Eve) task's heap.

LoseThos uses some tricks to keep line count down, like processing whole files. It has a flat, identity mapped virtual-to-physical address map, the same for all tasks. It updates the whole screen 60 times a second instead of trying to keep track of what has changed. The most demanding application is a full screen video game, so it might as well be optimize for that instead of trying to get idle low. It uses the same compiler for the command line as for programs and it uses the same viewer/editor for the command line, help system, forms and dialogs.

LoseThos is not trying to be bullet-proof -- it's for home computers, not mainframes where many users suffer when a crash occurs. It reboots in 2 seconds plus BIOS time. It's no worse than a hung task in Windows or Linux. I know people obsess on this topic. You know how the last 20% of a project takes 80% of the time? LoseThos is an order of magnitude simpler by not trying to be bullet-proof.

There are two programmers who will work on LoseThos -- the user and I. It is for programming as entertainment, and I mean that. Why would you buy a 3rd party program to run on a system with crappy graphics that can crash? There are no scalablity issues. Imagine LoseThos more similar in usage to a 8-bit non-networked home computer's ROM than to Windows or Linux, though, it is 64-bit and far more than that. You are free to access anything documented or undocumented in the system source code -- have fun! I have fond memories of the days when average users typed-in programs from magazines and tinkered with them.

LoseThos was designed from scratch with a clean slate and has no compatibility with anything else. Source code is ASCII plus binary graphics data. It has a new language roughly based C/C++. It's more than C and less than C++ so, maybe, it's C+. I took every opportunity to improve things once I made a clean break with the past. That's another reason LoseThos has value -- it is innovative.

Microsoft Visual Studio

Company / developer:
  Microsoft Corporation

New tools tailored to help you take on your software development challenges.

Visual Studio provides a range of tools that offer many benefits for individual developers and software development teams:

• Be more productive and obtain faster results
• Build dynamic Windows, Web, mobile, and Office-based solutions
• Communicate and collaborate more effectively within your software teams
• Ensure quality early and often throughout the development process

Timber

Company / developer:
  timber-lang.org

Adobe ExtendScript

Company / developer:
  Adobe Systems Incorporated

Adobe ExtendScript

The ExtendScript Toolkit (ESTK) is a development and debugging tool for JavaScript scripts included with Adobe CS3 Suites and applications such as Bridge, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and After Effects. ESTK is a new and enhanced version that allows you to create, edit and debug ExtendScript (Adobe's JavaScript language) all with an updated user interface, a new text engine, and the ability to debug more than one script at a time.

Java

Company / developer:
  Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Java

refers to a number of computer software products and specifications that together provide a system for developing application software and deploying it in a cross-platform environment. It is used in a wide variety of computing platforms spanning from embedded devices and mobile phones.

Java, a programming language, is a core component of Sun's Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities. Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode which can run on any Java virtual machine (JVM) regardless of computer architecture.

Microsoft Visual Studio

Company / developer:
  Microsoft Corporation

New tools tailored to help you take on your software development challenges.

Visual Studio provides a range of tools that offer many benefits for individual developers and software development teams:

• Be more productive and obtain faster results
• Build dynamic Windows, Web, mobile, and Office-based solutions
• Communicate and collaborate more effectively within your software teams
• Ensure quality early and often throughout the development process