From: Eric S. Raymond Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 12:35:44 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Comment polishing. X-Git-Tag: 2017-07-10~23 X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?p=open-adventure.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=75094fd6588bafec66a7d8fbe8c7674b56f58579;hp=2935e07bc9b01751bfcb2972f84f5df1bc82d75c Comment polishing. --- diff --git a/history.adoc b/history.adoc index 24f7fcf..c3d7b3a 100644 --- a/history.adoc +++ b/history.adoc @@ -26,14 +26,13 @@ at the Rand Corporation in 1977; this version was later, and still is, included in the BSD Games collection. I have it from Don Woods directly that "[Jim Gillogly] was one of the first to request and receive a copy of the source" but that Woods did not actually know of the BSD port -until I brefed him on it in 2017. (This contradicts some implications +until I briefed him on it in 2017. (This contradicts some implications in third-party histories.) Many other people ported and extended the game in various directions. A notable version was the first game shipped for the IBM Personal -Computer in 1981; this, for which neither Crowther nor Woods nor -Gillogly were paid royalties, what "The Original" was competing -against. +Computer in 1981; neither Crowther nor Woods nor Gillogly were paid +royalties. The history of these non-mainline versions is complex and murky. Functional differences were generally marked by changes in the