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--- Dinkum ---
(c) Copyright 1990 by Gary A. Allen, Jr.
All Rights Reserved. Version: 1.27, 24 August 1992
Dinkum is a text style "adventure" game.
You are free to use, copy and distribute Dinkum provided:
NO FEE IS CHARGED FOR USE, COPYING OR DISTRIBUTION.
THIS PROGRAM IS FOR PRIVATE, NONCOMMERICAL USE ONLY.
THE PROGRAM MAY NOT BE MODIFIED IN ANY WAY.
This program is provided AS IS without any warranty,
expressed or implied, including but not limited to fitness
for any particular purpose.
When corresponding please state the current version of
Dinkum which you are using. Contributions and questions
about this program should be sent to the following address:
E-mail address: gary@sun.mech.uq.oz.au
Postal address: Gary A. Allen, Jr.
P.O. Box 13
St. Lucia, Queensland 4067
Australia
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The program has been tested to compile under DOS through Turbo-C or under Unix
for the IBM-RISC/6000, Sun and Iris. As far as I know it works and has no
obvious bugs. Of course with adventure games the word "bug" has a pretty
loose meaning.
The C coding style is a little bit embarrassing for me. I wrote this program
after I finally resolved to never again code in FORTRAN. In fact I used this
code for learning C and exploring natural language. If you think this program
is worth the trouble then I'll try and clean it up and get the source code
into a more presentable form. Also if you should have any suggestions on
ways to improve this program then please feel free to suggest them. However
I'll only invest another month on this thing (I wasted too much time on it
already).
Gary Allen