Freeware Unix command-line "ScottFree 1.14" interpreter and gamefiles for 
  Scott Adams-type text-based Adventure Games, written by Alan Cox and
  (c) 1993-95 by the Swansea University Computer Society.

Trivially ported to NextStep Dec12/97 by dave_cameron@hotmail.com.

This software is supplied subject to the GNU software copyleft (version 2)
available from GNU or for FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu. 

This distribution includes only the interpreter and the Brian Howarth 
freeware gamefiles, plus two public-domain Scott Adams games, Adventureland 
and Pirate Adventure. The other original Scott Adams games are no longer 
available commercially but are still under copyright, so I can't upload 
them here or email them to you. They are available for download in various 
other places on the WorldWideWeb, if you happen to have a license to use 
them. 

I've made a minor change to the makefile to allow compiling under NextStep, 
compiled the interpreter dual-fat for Next and Intel, and run the 
gamefiles through the Rosetta DOS-to-Unix file conversion utility. 

I've tested it on NextStep 3.2 on a 25MHz NeXTStation but not on Intel.
If you have any technical questions or problems, ask your Unix guru, 
not me. Feel free to upload a quad-fat version, anyone.

To install the binary file "ScottCurses", log in as root and copy it 
to the folder /usr/local/bin. You can then log in to your regular 
account and run a gamefile by opening Terminal.app, using the "cd" 
command to move to the directory in which your gamefiles are stored, 
and typing "ScottCurses gamefilename" or 
"ScottCurses gamefilename savedgamefilename" in the Terminal.app shell 
(ie., "ScottCurses pirate", "ScottCurses pirate mysavedgame", etc.).

You can also (optionally) double-click the file "ScottCurses.svcs", then 
click "Add" when asked, "Add services defined in ScottCurses.svcs to 
your configuration?". This will allow you to play a particular 
game by selecting a gamefile in the Workspace browser and choosing 
"Terminal->ScottCurses" from the "Services" menu (keyboard shortcut: 
Alternate-Command-s).

A useful shortcut for Unix non-experts: when you lose and the game 
quits, you can type "!!" at the Unix prompt (%) and the gamefile will 
be loaded and run again. If you've saved the game and want to restart 
the game as saved, type "!! savedgamefilename". You can "save game" as 
many times as you want; I use numbered filenames (pirate1, pirate2,...) 
to keep track.

New gamefiles are occasionally written for the ScottFree interpreter. 
You can find links to them, and other Scott Adams info, on the Usenet 
newsgroup rec.arts.int-fiction, at the ftp site 
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/scott-adams/, and on the WWW page of Paul
David Doherty (http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/inside/angl/people/pdd/advent.html),
or by searching the web for "scott adams adventures" in a search engine such 
as http://www.altavista.com. Some of these gamefiles may not unpack properly
in Opener.app; if you have a problem with this, keep searching the 'Net 
until you find a copy that works.

If you try to load a gamefile and get an error message saying 
"Invalid database(bad header).", you probably 
need to convert the gamefile from DOS to Unix format. Try running it 
through Rosetta.app, available from both the Peak 
(ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/) and Peanuts 
(ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next/) NextStep ftp archives.