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.. -*- mode: rst; coding: utf-8 -*-
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Star Traders: A Game of Interstellar Trading
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============================================
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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
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Autoconf 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
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will be prompted for the number of players; from one to eight people can
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play (although, in this version, they will all have to share the one
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keyboard and screen!). After entering the names of the players, you will
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have the opportunity to read instructions on how to play the game. Do
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so—and good luck in the game!
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The manual page for Star Traders contains more information on command
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line options, as well as some suggestions for running a retro-computing
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green-screen nostalgia-tour version of the game… Try running the
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following, 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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========
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Your comments, suggestions, corrections and enhancements are always
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warmly 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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:Email: | 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 © 1990–2019, 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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