TAB - Thinbasic Adventure Builder

Text Adventure Creator for PC Windows XP and above. Tool/Utility for making Interactive Fiction (32/64bit) · By catventure

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A topic by rcbasicfans created Apr 09, 2021 Views: 193 Replies: 5

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rcbasicfans3 years ago

Hello, I like to search for the information of BASIC on Itch. The name "Thinbasic Adventure Builder" makes me think that it was written in Thinbasic. Am I right?

Actually, I have another question. Is TAB a tool which is similar to Adrift? I also want to know which program is better. In fact, I never try to make a text adventure game.

By the way, I am the host of this small BASIC jam. If you are interested in developing an entry in Thinbasic, you are welcome to join it. (Though the jam began several days ago)
https://itch.io/jam/jam-for-all-basic-dialects

catventureDeveloper3 years ago

Hi and welcome rcbasicfans,

Yes - written with Thinbasic http://thinbasic.com/

I have dabbled in Sinclair Basic, AmigaBasic, AMOS Basic, Liberty Basic, IBasic and ThinBasic.

Yes - it is a Windows downloadable offline tool for making parser input text or text/graphic adventures with sound and music.

Yes - Similar to ADRIFT in some ways. Quite different in other ways.

You would have to try them to find out which one you liked and were comfortable in using.

Thx for info about your jam.

rcbasicfans3 years ago

Hello, a small bug in the program TAB Player:

Press the close program button at the top right corner of the window, a box appears with "Really exit?", press "Y" button, an error box appears with "TAB player has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

The same thing happens with TAB Editor. The OS used is Windows XP. Thanks.

catventureDeveloper3 years ago

Thanks for your report. I'll look into it. Seems OK on Vista and above... I will try and find out if other XP users have same problem.

catventureDeveloper3 years ago

I have posted a few messages to try and get any feedback on the issue.

I haven't got XP to test it. I have been told that if such an issue arises in XP it should create a crash dump file when this occurs. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Watson_(debugger) for further details.

Maybe some info there that might help solve?

rcbasicfans3 years ago

Hello, thanks a lot: (But not English Windows and therefore you will see some strange characters.)

https://file.io/PXXAOLqZAXOV