How to play ADVENTIONS games on your favorite machine: The archives in this directory do not contain executables that you can run directly on your machine. Instead, they contain TADS ".GAM" files that can be used on any machine that runs TADS 2. TADS is a programming language and run-time environment specifically designed for interactive fiction. You need to get a copy of the "TADS run-time" executable for your system to play these games. Fortunately, this archive site is also home to TADS as well as ADVENTIONS games. So you can get the TADS run-time executable for your machine from if-archive/programming/tads, on this site. TADS currently runs on a wide range of machines, and the list of supported platforms is now growing very rapidly. Announcements about new ports usually appear in the Usenet newsgroups rec.arts.int-fiction and rec.games.int-fiction. As of this writing, the following machines are supported: PC and comaptibles Macinotosh Atari ST/TT/Falcon Sun Sparcstation Sun 3 DECstation (MIPS) Amiga (in the works) NeXT (in the works) Linux (in the works) 386/BSD (in the works) Macintosh owners should either get the special Mac versions (in the mac directory above this one), or set the file type and creator of the .GAM files to TADG and TADR respectively. Since there is no completely standard archive format, there may be several different copies of each archive. Hopefully you'll have access to one of the archivers used on these files. If you any questions or comments, send email to . I'm happy to help out in any way I can! Dave Baggett ADVENTIONS