BAABE is a freeware interactive fiction interpreter and framework for RISC OS. This archive contains full documentation of what it is, how to play it and how to create games using it, as well as three (well, two) example games.

The headline feature is the engine's extraordinary capacity for translation and internationalisation. All text, from cut scenes to verb handles, is held in message files looked up by means of ResFind. It goes beyond that, too - the sentence structure the player enters commands in is not fixed, so depending on the configuration, 'put ball in bag' and 'bag put the ball' could both be valid commands.

The only requirements for programming using BAABE are a reasonable amount of experience in BASIC, and a lot of imagination!