mirror of
https://git.zap.org.au/git/trader.git
synced 2024-11-03 17:27:29 -05:00
Star Traders is a simple text-based game of interstellar trading, where the objective is to create companies, buy and sell shares, borrow and repay money, in order to become the wealthiest player (the winner).
https://www.zap.org.au/projects/trader/
3a68213e80
In particular, the various printf-posix modules are not needed as %ls and the ' flag (thousands separator) is supported on all modern platforms (it is needed on Cygwin 1.5.x, for example, but the 1.5.x series do not support swprintf() anyway). Similarly, OpenBSD 3.8 (released November 2005) is not supported: it does not have <monetary.h>. A number of modules (locale, string, unistd, wchar) are only required for NetBSD 5.0 (c. 2009: quite recent). We try to support MacOS X 10.5 (October 2007), but it may require GNU libiconv. |
||
|---|---|---|
| build-aux | ||
| doc | ||
| lib | ||
| m4 | ||
| po | ||
| src | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| configure.ac | ||
| COPYING | ||
| INSTALL | ||
| Makefile.am | ||
| NEWS | ||
| README | ||
**************************************************************************
* *
* Star Traders: A Game of Interstellar Trading *
* Copyright (C) 1990-2011, John Zaitseff *
* *
**************************************************************************
Welcome to Star Traders! This is a simple game of interstellar trading,
where the objective is to create companies, buy and sell shares, borrow
and repay money, in order to become the wealthiest player (the winner).
Installation
============
Full instructions for installing Star Traders are contained in the file
INSTALL; the short version is:
./configure
make
make install
The final command needs to be run as the system administrator (root), of
course.
How to Play
===========
Star Traders comes with quite extensive in-built instructions on how to
play the game. Start by running "trader" from the command line. You will
be prompted for the number of players; from one to eight people can play
(although, in this version, they will all have to share the one keyboard
and screen!). After entering the names of the players, you will have the
opportunity to read instructions on how to play the game. Do so---and
good luck in the game!
The manual page for Star Traders contains more information on command line
options, as well as some suggestions for running a retro-computing green-
screen nostalgia-tour version of the game... Try running the following,
for example (all on one line):
xterm -g 80x24 -fa Mono -fs 18 -bg black -fg '#009911' -bc +sb +bdc \
+fbx -xrm 'XTerm*colorBD: #00FF00' -e trader --no-colour &
To read the manual page, type "man trader" from the command line.
Feedback
========
Your comments, suggestions, corrections and enhancements are always warmly
welcomed! Please send these to:
Postal: John Zaitseff,
The ZAP Group,
Unit 6, 116 Woodburn Road,
Berala, NSW, 2141,
Australia
E-mail: J.Zaitseff@zap.org.au
Web: http://www.zap.org.au/software/trader/
FTP: ftp://ftp.zap.org.au/pub/trader/
Copyright
=========
Copyright (C) 1990-2011, John Zaitseff.
Star Traders is free software that is distributed under the terms of the
GNU General Public License. You can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of that License as published by the Free Software
Foundation, either version 3 or (at your option) any later version.
This game is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License in
the file COPYING for more details.