README: FreeCraft Version 1.18


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	   FreeCraft - A free fantasy real time strategy game engine

(C) Copyright 1998-2003 by The FreeCraft Project. Distributed under the "GNU General Public License"


What is FreeCraft?

FreeCraft is a free cross-platform real-time strategy gaming engine. It is possible to play against human opponents over LAN, internet, or against the computer. The engine can be used to build C&C, WC2, SC and AOE-like real-time strategy (RTS) games. It successfully runs under Linux, BSD, BeOS, MacOS/X, MacOS/Darwin and MS Windows.

Since the FreeCraft engine doesn't provide graphics, sounds and documentation, you'd need the original game so FreeCraft can extract the necessary files. The BNE version is currently not supported, you must own the old DOS version. (With over 1 million sold copies this shouldn't be a big problem)

Alternatively you can download the free media (sounds and graphics) from the FreeCraft Media Project:
http://freecraft.org/fcmp.html.

The newest version of FreeCraft can always be found here:
http://freecraft.org.

The development is coordinated with SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net.

Our project page is:
FreeCraft real-time strategy game engine: Summary.

Install

Read this to install or upgrade FreeCraft: install.html

Documentation

Read this for a little documentation about FreeCraft: freecraft.html

If you want to help develop FreeCraft read this: development.html

About the FreeCraft scripting language (Scheme, implemented with SIOD) read: siod.html

Changes

Read this for the history of FreeCraft: ChangeLog.html

To-do and known bugs

This file contains the old known bugs and what we haved planned in the future: todo.html (old)

A complete list of known bugs and planned tasks.

Problems

Read this, if you have problems compiling, installing or playing FreeCraft: faq.html and try our help forum.

Copyrights

FreeCraft is distributed under the GNU General Public License , only version 2!

SIOD see SIOD.txt

SDL see README-SDL.txt

ZIP see ZIP-LICENSE

libmodplug v0.7 - A library for decoding MOD-like music formats.
Based on the ModPlug sound engine by Olivier Lapicque
Ported to Unix by Kenton Varda
Additional modifications by Markus Fick and Adam Goode
Converted to pure C by Lutz Sammer


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