Portable Space Engine
Alpha version 0.9.x
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WARNING!  ALPHA CODE!  This version of the PSE is not for production use.  It
may crash frequently, and in very nasty and unpredictable ways.  Beware! :)
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Please feel free to e-mail me at spaceengine@geocities.com if you have any
comments, questions, or suggestions.

REQUIREMENTS

- The space engine is supported on TinyMUX v1.4p16, TinyMUX v1.5p7,
  TinyMUSH v2.2.3, and PennMUSH 1.7.2 patchlevel 12.

  The Portable Space Engine should also work with earlier and later releases,
  though you might need to install parts of the appropriate patch by hand.

FEATURES

- Portable to different servers, and different game themes.
- Visual interface is mainly defined in softcode, so you can completely
  customize your consoles.
- Softcode event system, to allow the space designer to easily create automated
  objects.
- Support for any type of object.  Build asteroids, space beasts, cargo 
  containers.
- Hard code support for tractor beams, lasers/phasers, torpedos, explosions,  
  transporters, ships, starbases, planets, and much more.

GETTING STARTED

- Read the INSTALL file for installation details.
- Look at the Portable Space Engine Home Page at 
  http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Realm/9091/.  A sample database is
  available from the home page with a small, but fairly complete space system.
- The HTML documentation under docs/ and the sample code should provide enough
  information for you to begin developing your space system!
- Join the PSE Mailing lists.  To join the lists you should send an email
  with no subject or body to:

  pse-announce-subscribe@pc24.sr.bham.ac.uk     for the Announce list
  pse-discuss-subscribe@pc24.sr.bham.ac.uk      for the Discussion list

  The Announce list is where new releases of the Portable Space Engine are
  announced.  It is very low volume.

  The Discussion list is for discussions about new features in the PSE,
  installation problems, and for bug reports.

  To remove yourself from the mailing lists, you should send an email with
  no subject, and no body to:

  pse-announce-unsubscribe@pc24.sr.bham.ac.uk   for the Announce list
  pse-discuss-unsubscribe@pc24.sr.bham.ac.uk    for the Discussion list

  To send messages to the discussion list, you should send your
  messages to pse-discuss@pc24.sr.bham.ac.uk.  You cannot post to
  pse-announce@pc24.sr.bham.ac.uk.

  Posts to pse-discuss are only automatically accepted from subscribers.
  All other posts are sent to Cameron and Mark for manual moderation.

  Archives of posts to pse-announce and pse-discuss are available from:

  http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/~mpc/pulsar/pse/announce/index.shtml
  http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/~mpc/pulsar/pse/discuss/index.shtml