README
1 Welcome to greed
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3This game is now maintained by Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>. Matt
4Day dropped out of sight and hasn't posted a new version or patch since 1990.
5You can surf to the latest version from
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7 http://www.catb.org/~esr/
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9The 3.1 version features better interrupt handling and the `p' suffix to
10GREEDOPTS.
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12The 4.x versions change the scorefile format to allow longer usernames and
13include a timestamp. If the shared scorefile isn't writable, scores are
14written and read from ~/greedscores.
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17Welcome to Greed v3.0a!
18To install Greed, simply edit the Makefile to configure your system type, and
19run "make install". It should compile the program and install it correctly.
20It does run set-uid, but there is no danger of security problems.
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22New features to v3.0a:
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24I certainly hope that no patches need to be made to this game. (Yeah, sure..)
25Although this might not validate a true version step from 2.1a to 3.0, I think
26the archives will be happier with a reset version. On with the new features..
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28With Microsoft C 5.1 and PCCurses, you can get Greed running on your PC.
29In fact, I'll bet a port to Turbo C 2.0 wouldn't be very hard at all, but I
30use Microsoft. The whole port was done by Fred C. Smith, more info on him
31can be found at the top of greed.c. All bug reports pertaining to the DOS
32port should be directed to the address of Fred specified in greed.c.
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34Additions to v3.0a (game-wise):
35Replaced '-p' option with 'p' command, to allow toggling of the highlighting
36moves feature. Pretty nice, I think.. thanks to Jim Prescott.
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38Color curses, for users with color capabilities (color monitor & SVR3).
39See the top of greed.c for details.
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41Couple of possible pointer problems fixed, thanks to David Connet for pointing
42them out.
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44Who knows what else.. I didn't bother to write them down, but more than just
45this did get done. Trust me!
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47I do not take credit for inventing the game, I once saw it on an IBM,
48and wrote it for Unix in C.
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50If anyone has a comment or problem, please mail them to mday@iconsys.uu.net.
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52Here's the current high score file at Orem High School:
53Rank Score Name Percentage
541 1542 stay 88.72% /* Has _anyone_ beaten this? */
552 1504 ndes 86.54%
563 1504 dvar 86.54%
574 1501 stay 86.36%
585 1497 stay 86.13%
596 1490 skel 85.73%
607 1464 dvar 84.23%
618 1463 stay 84.18%
629 1463 stay 84.18%
6310 1460 stay 84.00%
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66| Matthew T. Day, Icon International, Orem, UT | Xerox never comes up |
67| ..!uunet!iconsys!mday (mday@iconsys.uu.net) | with anything original. |
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