This is the basic Empire Client.
Empire is a multi-player, client/server Internet based war game.
-Copyright (C) 1986-2006, Dave Pare, Jeff Bailey, Thomas Ruschak, Ken
-Stevens, Steve McClure
+Copyright (C) 1986-2017, 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
as a standalone client tarball. The instructions below apply to the
client tarball. If you got the complete source, as tarball or from
-CVS, refer to ../../README instead.
+a git repository, refer to ../../README instead.
See file `INSTALL' for detailed compilation and installation
instructions. Quick guide for the impatient: run configure; make;
make install. The last step is optional; everything runs fine right
from the build tree.
+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).
+The client tarball is not meant for development. Use the complete
+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!