X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=7605cce5120e0527d67406c6e3ce1800e3bc8a38;hb=e3e01af7fa1cd543f631f074c73f691d1f6315be;hp=222746beb73d46b5b03f0f345c5cc129d4d7ea05;hpb=8e73ebf31baca4449e0d7a6796391a2e53048362;p=open-adventure.git diff --git a/README b/README index 222746b..7605cce 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,16 +1,17 @@ -= 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.