Pirate Adventure - v1.1.0 - Monday, 11th August 1997
Developed for HC v2.4 (beta Gr), library v2.4.0
By Alexis & Scott Adams, c. 1979
Ported to Hugo by Julian Arnold (jools@arnod.demon.co.uk)


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PART A - INTRODUCTION
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This is a Hugo port of the classic text adventure, "Pirate Adventure". 
I have tried to keep this port as faithful to the original as possible,
even so far as emulating the original's screen model, and somewhat
crippling Hugo's parser.  Of course, there are differences, but these
should be minor and should not noticeably affect gameplay.

My main purpose in writing this port was to bolster the library of
available Hugo source.

Contained in this distribution are the following files:
  PIRATE.TXT: You're reading it.
  PIRATE.HUG: The Hugo source for "Pirate Adventure".
  PIRATE.REC: A step-by-step solution to "Pirate Adventure" (should work for
              both the Hugo port and the original--you won't be able to
              use this with Hugo's playback feature, due to certain
              random events such as the changing of the tides).

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PART B - COMPILING
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"Pirate Adventure" should compile with Hugo v2.4 beta Gr and library
v2.4.0 or later.  It will also compile with the non-Gr edition of v2.4
and the appropriate library.  A small bug in this version means that a
few objects (the torch, for instance) will be called, ie, (torch) rather
than their proper name.  This is only a superficial problem, and should
not affect gameplay.

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  PART C - LINEAGE
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"Pirate Adventure" (a.k.a. "Pirate's Cove") was Adventure
International's (Scott Adams' company) second game.

This port is modelled on a datafile extracted, from the BASIC version
of "Pirate Adventure" published in Byte 12/1980, by Paul David Doherty.

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  PART D - LICENCE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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This port is by Julian Arnold.  It was modelled on a datafile extracted
from the BASIC version of the original published in Byte 12/1980.  My
understanding is that this datafile is in the public domain, and so, so
is this port.  This means you can modify it, steal from it, and
redistribute it as you like.  Which is nice for you.

And so, on to the acknowledgements.

Fighting it out for first place we have, in the red corner, the double
whammy of Alexis and Scott Adams, who co-wrote the original, as well as
several other classic games, and, in the blue corner, Kent Tessman, the
heavyweight who fashioned Hugo from finest C.

Colin Turnbull graciously fixed some bugs in his Acorn port of Hugo,
while Cardinal Teulbachs told me how much he disliked the colour scheme
and did some last minute testing.

Paul David Doherty is responsible for the datafile on which this port is
based, and the utility ScottDec, which turned the datafile into
something I could read.  I could also play the datafile on ScottFree,
the "Scott Adams"-format adventure player written by Alan Cox.

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  PART E - HISTORY
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Sunday, 10th August 1997 - v1.0.0

Monday, 11th August 1997 - v1.1.0
  o Changed SL_TEXTCOLOR from WHITE to BRIGHT_WHITE.  This was necessary
    because of a bug (now fixed) in Hugo 2.4 Gr beta where BROWN
    appeared as yellow, rendering WHITE text on a BROWN background
    unreadable.  Thanks to Cardinal Teulbachs and Paolo Vece for
    pointing this out (repeatedly in the former case--oops!).
  o Removed an unnecessary call to ClearScreen() from DescribePlace()
    which was causing the upper window to be redrawn twice per
    turn--only noticeable on slow machines.
  o Changed the window block in DescribePlace() so that it draws the
    upper window according to display.statusline_height, and not as a
    flat 10 lines high.