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* Star Traders: A Game of Interstellar Trading *
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* Copyright (C) 1990-2018, John Zaitseff *
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Welcome to Star Traders! This is a simple game of interstellar trading,
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where the objective is to create companies, buy and sell shares, borrow
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and repay money, in order to become the wealthiest player (the winner).
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Installation
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============
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Full instructions for installing Star Traders are contained in the file
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INSTALL. Please note that that file does NOT contain generic GNU Autoconf
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instructions! For the impatient, the short version is:
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./configure
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make
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make install
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The final command needs to be run as the system administrator (root), of
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course.
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How to Play
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===========
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Star Traders comes with quite extensive in-built instructions on how to
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play the game. Start by running "trader" from the command line. You will
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be prompted for the number of players; from one to eight people can play
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(although, in this version, they will all have to share the one keyboard
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and screen!). After entering the names of the players, you will have the
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opportunity to read instructions on how to play the game. Do so---and
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good luck in the game!
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The manual page for Star Traders contains more information on command line
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options, as well as some suggestions for running a retro-computing green-
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screen nostalgia-tour version of the game... Try running the following,
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for example (all on one line):
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xterm -g 80x24 -fa Mono -fs 18 -bg '#181818' -fg '#2CAB00' -bc +sb \
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+bdc +fbx -xrm 'XTerm*colorBD: #41FF00' -e trader --no-colour &
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To read the manual page, type "man trader" from the command line.
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Feedback
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Your comments, suggestions, corrections and enhancements are always warmly
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welcomed! Please send these to:
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Postal: John Zaitseff,
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The ZAP Group,
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Unit 6, 116 Woodburn Road,
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Berala, NSW, 2141,
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Australia
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E-mail: J.Zaitseff@zap.org.au
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Web: https://www.zap.org.au/software/trader/
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FTP: https://ftp.zap.org.au/pub/trader/
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ftp://ftp.zap.org.au/pub/trader/
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Copyright
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=========
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Copyright (C) 1990-2018, John Zaitseff.
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Star Traders is free software that is distributed under the terms of the
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GNU General Public License. You can redistribute it and/or modify it
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under the terms of that License as published by the Free Software
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Foundation, either version 3 or (at your option) any later version.
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This game is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
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ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
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FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License in
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the file COPYING for more details.
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