Infinite Imaginations / Aventuras AD
In the late 1980s, Tim Gilberts, the founder of Gilsoft International, focused on consulting game developers and providing them with custom programmed solutions. To differentiate this work from the fading Gilsoft label, he formed Infinite Imaginations. One of the most important synergies in this time arose when Tim accepted the offer to create an in-house multi-machine adventure writer for the now legendary Adventure forge Aventuras AD in Spain. This was the dawning of DAAD, the most sophisticated system that Tim created, easily on par with the capabilities of the Infocom development tools, allowing you to target a broad range of 8-bit and 16-bit systems, including C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX, PCW, Atari ST, Amiga, IBM PC (DOS). It allows you to maintain a single source file and adapt it to the supported systems. DAAD was developed from 1988-1991 and it is the final tool to emerge from the code that can be traced back all the way to the Quill. After the bankruptcy of Aventuras AD in 1992, it seemed that DAAD was lost forever. In 2014 Mr. Samudio rediscovered the system disks and contributed them to the public domain but unfortunately much of the original system was gone, including the English language support. To save DAAD Adventure Writer forever from the limbo it was trapped, Tim Gilberts teamed up with me once again. Together we restored and extended the system, recovered English language support, and developed solutions to create your own games with the help of modern editors. The system was never available to the public and it was never available to English language developers. But that’s over now. DAAD is back after 30 years and we can’t wait to see what you will create with it. Imagine worlds!
>>> Download DAAD Adventure Writer R4 (1988-1991, 2018-2019)
Contains all the tools to develop adventure games for C64, Spectrum, CPC, Plus/4, MSX, PCW, ST, Amiga and DOS.
>>> Download DAAD Aventuras AD preservation files
Contains historical files from Aventuras AD that were rediscovered together with DAAD, mostly Spanish game master disks and sources.
