Fallen Empires Release 1.0 Tuesday 12 October 1999 ---> Introduction Welcome to Fallen Empires, a highly modified version of the GodWars 1996 codebase. May hours of work have been put into this code so please respect our work and do not infringe upon any copyrights. ---> Copyright and License Fallen Empires is based off of the original Diku Mud and the Merc Diku Mud and is subject to their copyright and license agreements (license.doc and license.txt, respectively). Additions and modifications to the code are copyright 1999 by Kai, Rune, and the other Fallen Empires immortals. In order for you to run a MUD using our codebase you must adhere to Diku Mud's license agreement, Diku Merc Mud's license agreement, and our own license agreement. ---> Contents of the Release area Area files. doc Documentation. log Log files (empty). player Player files (empty). player/backup Player backup files (empty). player/store Player store files (empty). src Source files. ---> Installation (1) Uncompress the release. gunzip fe-v10.tar.gz tar xvf fe-v10.tar (2) Go to the 'src' directory. cd ~/.fallen/src (3) Run the Makefile. make This is should take between 5 and 15 minutes depending on the speed of your server. If you run across any compilation problems make changes to the code accordingly. This code is provided as is without support. (4) Run the MUD Server. cd ../area startup & telnet localhost 9999 (5) To make your first immortal character, just start as a mortal character, kill 5 mobs then save, and then change the level and trust fields of your player file to 12. (6) Read 'license.doc', 'license.txt', and 'license.fe'. Be sure to e-mail Fallen Empires letting them know you are using their code. ---> What's Next? The Fallen Empires code is constantly being revised and modified. We will furnish new versions to the public when we see that an important change in the code has occurred. If you have any questions of comments about the code please e-mail us at kai@grex.org Thanks and Have Fun, Kai, Rune, and the rest of the Fallen Empires Immortals. Fallen Empires 10/12/99