= README for Open Adventure =
+If you are reading this anywhere but at http://www.catb.org/~esr/open-adventure
+you can go there for tarball downloads and other resources.
+
This code is a forward-port of the Crowther/Woods Adventure 2.5 from
1995, last version in the main line of Colossal Cave Adventure
development written by the original authors. The authors have given
-permission and encouragement for this releasel it obsolesces all
+permission and encouragement for this release; it obsolesces all
the 350-point versions and previous 2.x (430-point) ports.
The file history.adoc contains a more detailed history of this game
Please see INSTALL.adoc for build info.
Extreme care has been taken to not silently change gameplay. By
-policy, all user-visible changes from 2.5 are revertible with the
--o (oldstyle) option.
+policy, all user-visible changes from 2.5 that are not bugs or typos
+are revertible with the -o (oldstyle) command-line option.
If you encounter a bug (not likely; this code is old and well tested)
please try to make a test log that reproduces it, using the -l option,
and ship it to the maintainers.
+If you find this code useful or amusing, please
+https://www.patreon.com/esr[support me on Patreon.]
+
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