| Port details on branch 2026Q3 |
- frobtads Development tools and text-mode interpreter for TADS adventure games
- 2.0_1 games
 =0      2.0_1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.  DEPRECATED: No release in years, does not build with CMake 4
 EXPIRATION DATE: 2026-11-30
- Maintainer: wes.frazier@avoidbig.tech
- Port Added: 2026-09-04 18:18:06
- Last Update: 2026-09-04 18:14:08
- Commit Hash: ffb40aa
- Also Listed In: lang
- License: TADS
- WWW:
- https://github.com/realnc/frobtads
- Description:
- FrobTADS is a full version of TADS for Unix, Linux, and Mac OS X, by Nikos
Chantziaras. It includes everything you need for playing and writing TADS games,
including a text-only TADS interpreter and the compilers for both TADS 2 and 3.
The latest text-only TADS features are supported, including colored text and
backgrounds, TADS 3 banner windows, and timed input. FrobTADS is easy to
install, with automatic configuration on all Linux versions, a pre-built install
package for Mac OS X, and auto configuration on most other Unix systems.
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- Manual pages:
- FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
- no SUBR information found for this port
- Dependency lines:
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- frobtads>0:games/frobtads
- Conflicts:
- CONFLICTS:
- To install the port:
- cd /usr/ports/games/frobtads/ && make install clean
- To add the package, run one of these commands:
- pkg install games/frobtads
- pkg install frobtads
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.- PKGNAME: frobtads
- Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
- distinfo:
- TIMESTAMP = 1760282499
SHA256 (realnc-frobtads-v2.0_GH0.tar.gz) = c457860d3bf3db3c1129deddbd2c7a295602c7f59560d7e6e81df3bb77a23cd5
SIZE (realnc-frobtads-v2.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 5122899
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- Dependencies
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- Build dependencies:
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- cmake : devel/cmake-core
- Library dependencies:
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- libcurl.so : ftp/curl
- There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:- No options to configure
- Options name:
- games_frobtads
- USES:
- cmake:noninja localbase ncurses
- FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
- Master Sites:
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