X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=3426278d2dbed0704b0ab9ba90ef20834bcb2752;hb=f373d87ba7ca7b2011fe26ea81544daebfdf66fb;hp=c73e6b072b0883edecc1547fcdaf14e143a723ba;hpb=68712ce6666516d52f2be26bd40cee0464722174;p=open-adventure.git diff --git a/README b/README index c73e6b0..3426278 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -3,11 +3,17 @@ 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 Adventure" 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. +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'. +