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- This version of Omega 0.80 was compiled with D.J.Delorie's IBM port
- of GNU C++, djgpp. As such, it will only run on a 386 or higher.
- DJGPP is available for ftp from omnigate.clarkson.edu:/pub/msdos/djgpp
-
- Omega requires the directory C:\TMP to exist, as this is where it
- places its swap file. The directory OMEGALIB can be anywhere in your
- file hierarchy, but you must cd to the directory containing OMEGALIB
- before running Omega (if you don't move any of the directories around
- after running pkunzip, this will be the directory containing OMEGA.EXE).
- Alternatively, you can set the shell variable OMEGALIB to equal the
- directory path to the omegalib directory. For example, if you typed the
- following:
-
- C:\GAMES> pkunzip -d omexe80.zip
-
- so that the OMEGA directory is created in the C:\GAMES directory, putting
- the following in you AUTOEXEC.BAT:
-
- set OMEGALIB=C:\GAMES\OMEGA\OMEGALIB\
-
- would allow you to play omega from anywhere in your file system
- (assuming that C:\GAMES\OMEGA is in your path, of course...)
-
- The text file MANPAGE contains the UNIX-style manual page for Omega, which
- is pretty much right for this MSDOS version, too. The text file OMEGA.AD
- contains the original advertisement for Omega.
-
- So as to have reasonably sized save files, I have lifted the standard
- UNIX compress program. I include the following from the comment at
- the beginning of the code for compress:
-
- * This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
- * James A. Woods, derived from original work by Spencer Thomas
- * and Joseph Orost.
- *
- * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
- * provided that: (1) source distributions retain this entire copyright
- * notice and comment, and (2) distributions including binaries display
- * the following acknowledgement: ``This product includes software
- * developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors''
-