TR:  the Text Adventure Development System Run-Time version 2.2
Copyright (c) 1990, 2002 by Michael J. Roberts.  All rights reserved.

This package was prepared June, 2002.


About the TADS Run-Time
-----------------------

The TADS Run-time is a module that is needed to play a game written
with TADS and compiled into a .GAM file.  To make it easier to distribute
games written with TADS, this run-time module can be distributed
separately from the rest of the system, and separately from any game.
This way, if you want to play several TADS games, you only need to get
a copy of the run-time system once; game authors can package only their
.GAM files.  If you're downloading games from on-line systems, this saves
you the time of downloading the run-time program (about 70k after being
compressed).


To run a game, you simply type TR followed by the name of the game.  For
example, if you have a game file named DITCH.GAM, you run it like this:

   tr ditch

Note that some TADS game authors choose to distribute their games with the
run-time executable and their game file bound together as a single file.
For games distributed this way, you don't need a separate run-time module.


The TADS Run-Time is Freeware
-----------------------------

You can use and redistribute the TADS Run-time system in accordance with
the normal freeware rules; see LICENSE.TR for details.


About TADS
----------

TADS is a programming system that lets you write your own professional-
quality text adventure games.  TADS uses a high-level, C-like object-oriented
language.  The system comes with a compiler, the run-time system, a source
file that implements a large set of common adventure objects, on-line
documentation, and the source for a complete sample game.  TADS is
freeware.



Notes for DOS users
-------------------

On PC's, you may edit command lines with the arrow keys and other standard
editing keys.  Review Mode (described in DEEP.DOC) is activated with
function key F1.

Saved games are stored in standard DOS files, by default in the current
directory (the directory from which you start the game), so make sure
you have free disk space before you begin playing.


ABOUT HIGH ENERGY SOFTWARE
--------------------------

High Energy Software formerly distributed TADS as a shareware system,
but is no longer in business.  Mike Roberts, the developer of TADS,
is now maintaining and distributing the system as freeware.  We have
made an effort to remove references from these files to High Energy
Software and its former telephone and other contact information,
since all of those numbers and addresses are no longer in service.
If we inadvertantly left any such references intact, please disregard
them, since they're oversights.


