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@ -115,12 +115,14 @@ and 2.5:
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Great care has been taken to preserve 2.5's exact gameplay as intended
by Don. However, under the hood Open Adventure is rather different from
2.5. Where 2.5 was written in FORTRAN mechanically translated into extremely
ugly C, Open Adventure has been translated into much more modern and
idiomatic C. The extremely cryptic and opaque format of the original
database of rooms, objects, and strings has been moved to YAML;
this makes the brilliant design of it much easier to comprehend.
by Don. We have added a "version" command.
However, under the hood Open Adventure is rather different from 2.5.
Where 2.5 was written in FORTRAN mechanically translated into
extremely ugly C, Open Adventure has been translated into much more
modern and idiomatic C. The extremely cryptic and opaque format of
the original database of rooms, objects, and strings has been moved to
YAML; this makes the brilliant design of it much easier to comprehend.
== Earlier non-influences ==