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Format

ADRIFT Text Adventure File

Summary

Name
ADRIFT Text Adventure File
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/1584
Format type
Text (Structured)
Description
ADRIFT Text Adventure File is an Interactive Fiction games file, produced by Campbell Wild's ADRIFT (Adventure Developer & Runner - Interactive Fiction Toolkit). ADRIFT was created for Miscrosoft Windows and runs under Windows 95, 98, and NT. It does not require extensive programming knowledge, as it provides a series of dialog boxes which can be filled-out with descriptions and properties of each location, object and character. It is not based on the traditional model of compiled source and interpreted binary files but instead, a game exists only as a single binary file which is created by the Generator (a series of specialised editors) and read by the Runner. Both components use a Windows-style graphical interface, and are largely mouse-driven.
Note
http://www.firthworks.com/roger/cloak/adrift/index.html http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/ADRIFT https://www.adrift.co/ http://www.plover.net/~textfire/raiffaq/FAQ.htm#:ADRIFT https://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/ADRIFT
File extensions
taf
Source
The National Archives and Records Administration / The National Archives and Records Administration

Internal signatures

ADRIFT Text Adventure File

Note
BOF; Offset: 0; Magic Bytes: '<B?Éj‡ÂÏ'

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
3C423FC96A87C2CF
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Added in V101

    Release date
    15 February 2022

    ADRIFT Text Adventure File: Signature researched and samples provided by The National Archives and Records Administration.

    ADRIFT Text Adventure File: Full entry added. Submitted by The National Archives and Records Administration.