This tool allows you to upload a text adventure game written using the Atari 8 bit version of the Quill / Adventure Writer. It will then extract and display information from the database as well as providing download and copy to clipboard features. You could use this to learn about how a game was implemented, look for bugs or try to port it to another platform.

Notes

1. You need to upload a .XEX file (usual Atari DOS 2.x segmented file). Typically this will be contained in a .ATR file (disk image) if you search online for suitable games. How you extract the .XEX file from the .ATR is up to you, but the popular Atari emulators provide suitable functionality.
2. Upload the file to the toolkit page. Note that this is only uploading into the browser's memory. Nothing you upload gets stored on the server.
3. Some checks are performed to determine if the file is suitable and appears to contain the database and interpreter segments. Even if these checks are passed, there is no absolute guarantee that the file is usable. There are edge cases where the uploaded file looks plausible, but the extraction will fail and may cause the process to loop. See the Log tab for details.
4. If the checks are passed, the Extract button is enabled. Click this to run the extraction process. You should review the log before doing this, just in case.
5. When the extraction is complete, data is presented in separate tabs for each object type. There is also a Plain text representation which combines all the output. In addition, an Output dropdown is enabled from where the data can be downloaded to a file or copied to the clipboard in either plain text or JSON format.
6. Please be aware that this is a work in progress and the output format may change in the future.