                                 The Pit
                               version 3.6

                          Copyright (C) 2004 by
                   Chris Johnson and A.S.S.I.S.T. Inc.



I. INTRODUCTION

This is a revised version of The Pit v3.53.  James Berry (deceased)
is responsible for the lion's share of the coding.  Doug Rhea of
A.S.S.I.S.T. Inc. is responsible for recovering the original source
code.  Chris Johnson has made some changes and additions regarding
registration.



II. WHAT'S NEW

This version of the game functions as a registered version of The Pit
v3.53.  By default, the sysop is listed as "FREE COPY", and the BBS as
"BBSFiles.com".  Please visit BBSFiles.com for information on
personalizing your copy of the game with your own sysop and BBS names.

Note that, although the ANSI and EGA terminals should work with this
version, absolutely no testing has been done to ensure that they do.
The standalone program (pit.exe) was the only focus of this effort.



III. REFERENCES

III.1: A Mersenne Twister implementation:

   Copyright (C) 1997 - 2002, Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura,
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