Mystery Mansion
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version 19.2 
February 19, 2000

This C/Unix port of Mystery Mansion and accompanying files are 
copyright (C) 1999,2000 James Garnett.  All files are covered by a 
copyright; see the file COPYRIGHT that came with this README for
more information.

Email: garnett@catbelly.com
  WWW: http://www.catbelly.com/src/mm/mystery.html

Mystery Mansion was originally conceived of, designed, and written by an
unknown person (possibly someone named Bill Wolpert).


Changes since version 19.1
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   - A paren problem made it impossible to actually solve the murder in
     previous versions.  Now fixed and verified.  This was another ZaneBug.

   - The heavy use of "goto"s (a result of the directness of the port
     from the original fortran) broke the way output buffers were 
     flushed, apparently, which led to weird output behavior after
     a scanf().  Replaced all scanf()'s with fgets(), and things are
     now happy again.

   - Verified correctness of the timing.  This had been in question
     wrt the cold corridor and how to get down it; I have now made
     a walkthrough that proves it works.  This isn't really a change,
     but it's still important.

   - Determined that "John Rasins," previously thought to be an author,
     was really just an Interex CSL archive contributor for one of
     the early revisions of the fortran source.  The real author has
     been tentatively identified as a "Bill Wolpert," which sounds familiar
     from my early days of playing this.  Changed this in the intro 
     acknowledgements.

Changes since version 19.00
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   - Rebecca Zane found three fairly insidious bugs having to do with
     the way the globe dropped and how characters answered questions.
     All of these are now fixed in v19.1 and the responses appear to
     be the way we expected them to be.

   - Some of the formatting having to do with long responses to questions
     has been changed so that it doesn't linewrap past 80 columns.


Platform Support
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Mystery Mansion is known to compile and run on the following platforms:

        OpenBSD 2.5, 2.6 (x86)
        OpenBSD 2.6 (sparc)
        Solaris 2.7 (x86 & sparc)
        SunOS 4.1.3_U1 
        DUNIX-4.0D 
        HP-UX 10.10, 10.20

It also compiles and runs in win32 (Windows 95/98/NT) environments, 
depending on the compiler you use.  I used Visual C++, and it compiled
with no real problems.