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TMInterface (TMI) is a public Trackmania TAS tool created by donadigo. TMI was programmed in C++ and then later on, added further support for plugins in AngelScript, which is also used for Openplanet in Trackmania (2020) and Maniaplanet. Before TMI there was no publicly available TAS tool for Trackmania.
History
TMI was started by donadigo around 2018, where it was initially just a simple long-term project. Later on in 2019, donadigo made a blog post about TAS and Trackmania, where he talks about TAS and its availability, since most TAS tools were privately owned and not shared, due to the risk of cheating, since back then there was no cheat detection. People with these tools never uploaded these runs on the offical leaderboards, but rather posted them as videos on youtube, to showcase their TAS runs.
After the events of the Cheating Scandal, donadigo published a cheat detection software, Competition Patch. It was made mandatory to download it, in order to upload runs to TMX.
The first version of TMI was version 1.0.0, which was released shortly after the report about the Cheating Scandal, on the 30th of May 2021.