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8 <center><img src="../data/header.jpg" alt="20,000 Light Years Into Space"><br><br>
9 Produced by <a href="http://www.jwhitham.org.uk/">Jack Whitham</a>.<br><br>
10 <h2>Online Manual</h2><br>
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12 <a href="story.html">The Story</a> -
13 <a href="instructions.html">Instructions For New Players</a> -
14 <a href="about.html">About The Game</a>
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19 <p>20,000 Light Years Into Space is free software, licensed under the
20 <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GPL</a>. If you don't
21 have a Windows computer, you can play the Source code version by installing
22 <a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a> 2.4 and
23 <a href="http://www.pygame.org/">Pygame</a> 1.7 (or later
24 versions).
26 <h3>Changes</h3>
27 <p><b>1.3a</b> Replaced some sound effects with new versions.
29 <p><b>1.3</b> Repackaging for Linux distributions.
31 <p><b>1.2a</b> Source release only: Bugfix for 'SDL_ttf render failed'.
32 There is no need to upgrade if 20K Light Years works on your machine.
33 Also, the game now stores savegames and configuration data in your home
34 directory (if you have one), and you don't need to run the game from
35 the game directory.
37 <p><b>1.2</b> <a href="http://www.pygame.org/">Pygame.org</a> release.
38 Includes various presentation tweaks.
40 <p><b>1.1a</b> Source release only: Pygame version detection bug fix.
41 No change to save file format or game rules.
43 <p><b>1.1</b> Includes many minor improvements, and one major change
44 that directly indicates flow. Thanks
45 <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/acidd_uk/">Acidd_UK</a> for this idea.
47 <p><b>1.0 (RC2)</b> Version handed in to Pyweek.
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