This is the basic Empire Client.
Empire is a multi-player, client/server Internet based war game.
-Copyright (C) 1986-2010, Dave Pare, Jeff Bailey, Thomas Ruschak, Ken
-Stevens, Steve McClure
+Copyright (C) 1986-2018, Dave Pare, Jeff Bailey, Thomas Ruschak,
+Ken Stevens, Steve McClure, Markus Armbruster
-This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License (in file
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License (in file
`COPYING'), or (at your option) any later version.
The client is distributed as part of the complete source tarball and
make install. The last step is optional; everything runs fine right
from the build tree.
+If configure reports "readline: no" in its configuration summary,
+fancy line editing doesn't work in the client. Commonly caused by not
+having development libraries installed. On Linux, try installing
+readline-devel.
+
+If configure reports "terminfo: no" in its configuration summary,
+highlighting doesn't work. Commonly caused by not having development
+libraries installed. On Linux, try installing ncurses-devel.
+
The client connects to the Changeling blitz by default. Use
environment variables EMPIREHOST and EMPIREPORT to connect to another
game (see manual page for details).
source for that.
Please report bugs to <wolfpack@wolfpackempire.com> or via SourceForge
-http://sourceforge.net/projects/empserver (registration required).
+<http://sourceforge.net/projects/empserver/> (registration required).
For more information or help, try rec.games.empire on Usenet, or send
e-mail to <wolfpack@wolfpackempire.com> and we'll try to answer if we
-can. Also check out our web site at "http://www.wolfpackempire.com".
+can. Also check out our web site at <http://www.wolfpackempire.com/>.
Have fun!