DAAD is a descendant of Gilsoft's the Quill and the PAW. It was originally created by Tim Gilberts of Infinite Imaginations exclusively for the use of Spanish adventure company Aventuras A.D. DAAD's compiler-based system allows authors to target multiple machines; the C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX, PCW, Atari ST, Amiga, and IBM PC (DOS).
In 2014 the system was made available to the general public and in 2018 the English language versions were recovered. See http://8-bit.info/infinite-imaginations-aventuras-ad/ for more details.