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 Makefile       The Makefile (the INSTALL file tells you about this).
 Makefile.tc    Makefile for building Frotz for DOS.
 README         An overview of Frotz.
+README.md      An overview of Frotz formatted in Markdown.
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+# FROTZ V2.45pre
+An interpreter for all Infocom and other Z-machine games.
+Complies with standard 1.0 of Graham Nelson's specification.
+
+Originally written by Stefan Jokisch in 1995-1997.
+Ported to Unix by Galen Hazelwood.
+Reference code and Unix port currently maintained by David Griffith.
+
+## Features
+- Compiles and runs on most common flavors of Unix, both open source and not.
+- Plays all Z-code games including V6.
+- Graphics displayed through SDL.
+- Sound support through libao.
+- Config files.
+- Configurable error checking.
+- Distributed under the GNU Public License.
+
+## Information
+For information on what Interactive Fiction is and how to play it, see the
+file "HOW_TO_PLAY".
+
+For installation information, see the file "INSTALL".
+
+For update history, see the file "Changelog".
+
+For information on known bugs in Frotz, see the file "BUGS".
+
+The Frotz homepage is at https://661.org/proj/if/frotz/
+
+The latest information on and source code of Unix Frotz is available at 
+https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/frotz
+
+## Downloads
+The latest release of Unix Frotz is available from the Interactive
+Fiction Archive at:  
+http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/frotz/  
+and  
+ftp://ftp.ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/frotz/  
+
+
+## Mirrors
+The Interactive Fiction Archive has several mirrors which may be better
+choices depending on where you live.
+
+- USA: http://ifarchive.jmac.org
+- USA: http://ifmirror.russotto.net
+- USA: http://ifarchive.smallwhitehouse.org
+- USA: http://ifarchive.info
+- USA: http://ifarchive.ifreviews.org
+- USA: ftp://ifarchive.ifreviews.org
+- USA: http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/interactive-fiction/
+- USA: gopher://gopher.661.org/1/if-archive