= 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 release.
+permission and encouragement for this releasel 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
and its ancestors. The file notes.adoc is the maintainer's notes,
executable in order to avoid a collision with the BSD games port of
the ancestral 1977 version.
-You can run a regression test on the code with 'make check'. 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.
+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.
-If you encounter a bug (not likely; thuis code is old and well tested)
+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.