New notes.adoc file; major documentation update.

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Eric S. Raymond 2017-06-12 22:02:32 -04:00
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@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ development written by the original authors. The authors have given
permission and encouragement for this release.
The file history.adoc contains a more detailed history of this game
and its ancestors.
and its ancestors. The file notes.adoc is the maintainer's notes,
describing project goals and recent changes.
This project is called "Open Adventure" because it's not at all clear
how to number Adventure past 2.5 without misleading or causing
@ -15,5 +16,12 @@ original 6-character name on the PDP-10 has been reverted to for the
executable in order to avoid a collision with the BSD games port of
the ancestral 1977 version.
You can run a regression test on the code with 'make check'.
You can run a regression test on the code with 'make check'. Extreme
care has been taken to not silently change gameplay. By policy, all
user-visible changes from 2.5 are revertible with the -o (oldstyle)
option.
// end