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Include proper release notes for the up-coming release of Star Traders

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Version 7.4 (not yet released)
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@@@ Revised game algorithms: negative returns now allowed.
@@@ configure now warns if NcursesW not found.
@@@ Updated Russian translation; thanks to Vladimir B. Tsarkov and Pavel Maryanov.
@@@ Finish translation; thanks to Jorma Karvonen.
@@@ French translation; thanks to Frédéric Marchal.
@@@ German translation; thanks to Philipp Thomas.
For the first time since the CP/M-80 version of Star Traders, the game
algorithms have been carefully reviewed and revised. In particular,
companies may now have negative returns, making players lose money on such
shares. This may encourage players to use the "Sell shares" option at
appropriate times... In addition, changes in share prices, returns and
bank interest rates have been made much "smoother", less prone to wild
variations. These new algorithms were first modelled using Gnuplot and
Perl before being implemented in C.
The "configure" script now prints a prominent warning if a wide-character
version of Curses, such as NcursesW, is not available when compiling the
game. It is a warning and not an error as single-byte locales (such as
US-ASCII and ISO8859-1) do not require NcursesW, even if the compilation
environment itself is a multibyte one (such as UTF-8).
The Russian translation has been updated, with thanks to Vladimir Tsarkov
and Pavel Maryanov. Translations for French, German and Finnish have been
added (in that order), with thanks to Frédéric Marchal, Philipp Thomas and
Jorma Karvonen. Special thanks also to the Translation Project, which
brings free (open-source) software developers and translators together.
Version 7.3 (16th March, 2012)