X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=3426278d2dbed0704b0ab9ba90ef20834bcb2752;hb=6f17b31b850729a62046a8046f3647c7758ad594;hp=222746beb73d46b5b03f0f345c5cc129d4d7ea05;hpb=8e73ebf31baca4449e0d7a6796391a2e53048362;p=open-adventure.git diff --git a/README b/README index 222746b..3426278 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,16 +1,19 @@ -= README for Open Advent = += README for Open Adventure = 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 to this release. +permission and encouragement for this release. The file history.txt contains a more detailed history of this game and its ancestors. -This project is called "Open Advent" because it's not at all clear -to number Adventure past 2.5 without misleading or causing collisions -or both. See the history file for discussion. The original 6-character -name on the PDP-10 has been reverted to in order to avoid a collision -with the BSD games pport of the anecestral 196 version. +This project is called "Open Adventure" because it's not at all clear +how to number Adventure past 2.5 without misleading or causing +collisions or both. See the history file for discussion. The +original 6-character name on the PDP-10 has been reverted to for the +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'.