DAAD System Reference

DAAD (Disenador de Aventuras AD) is a multi-platform text adventure authoring system created by Tim Gilberts in 1988 for the Spanish company Aventuras AD. It evolved from The Quill -> PAW -> SWAN -> DAAD. Adventures are written in DSF source files, compiled to DDB binary databases by DRC, and executed by platform-specific interpreters.

Supported platforms: ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, C64, MSX, MSX2, PCW, Atari ST, Amiga, PC (DOS).

Reference Files

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DDB Binary Format

File: references/ddb-format.md

• 34-byte header structure (all fields and offsets)
• Data section layout (vocabulary, texts, processes, objects, connections)
• Token-based text compression scheme
• Character encoding (255 - char), inline escapes, article modification
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