From: Eric S. Raymond Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 10:00:21 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Documentation polishing. X-Git-Tag: 1.2~2 X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=da37afb19b23231660a59dd3c227d07c7fcbdc9d;p=open-adventure.git Documentation polishing. --- diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc index dca92f3..769c433 100644 --- a/README.adoc +++ b/README.adoc @@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ 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, diff --git a/history.adoc b/history.adoc index 7c8bff6..0853944 100644 --- a/history.adoc +++ b/history.adoc @@ -48,10 +48,11 @@ that IFA's historical claims are thinly sourced and its dates for the earliest releases don't match either comments in the code or the careful reconstruction in <>. -Future versions of this document may attempt to untangle some of the -non-mainline history. For now, it will suffice to explain the chain of -provenance that led from the original Adventure to the version -distributed with this document. +An attempt to untangle and document a lot of the non-mainline history +has been made by Arthur O'Dwyer at <>. For our purposes, it +will suffice to explain the chain of provenance that led from the +original Adventure to the Open Adventure distributed with this +document. The original 350-point ADVENT on the PDP-10 had been one of my formative experiences as a fledgling hacker in 1976-77. Forty years @@ -150,3 +151,5 @@ even as primitive as Adventure's. - [[[DND]]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnd_(video_game) - [[[WUMPUS]]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_the_Wumpus + +- [[[QUUX]]] https://github.com/Quuxplusone/Advent