Tads is the text adventure development system, a set of tools for writing and playing text-based adventure games. you interface with these games by entering commands in english, and the game responds with a textual description of the result.

this package contains the text-mode tads 2 interpreter. you must have a tads interpreter to play a tads game file, which typically has an extension of ".gam". you can find many of these games at the interactive fiction archive at http://www.ifarchive.org/.

this interpreter can only run tads 2 game files. install the tads3 package if you want an interpreter which can run both tads 2 and tads 3 game files.