FAR HORIZONS is a strategic role-playing game of galactic exploration, trade, diplomacy, and conquest. The first and second editions were designed for play by postal mail. Later editions were designed for play by electronic mail. The seventh edition rules and source code were released in 1999 by Rick Morneau.
This repository contains the original source code with various bug fixes and improvements. There have been no changes to the game mechanics, and there are no immediate plans to make any.
You can find the original 7th edition ASCII rules at doc/rules.
You can also build a PDF and HTML versions of these if you have pandoc installed.
cd doc/manual
make
Compiling is easy:
$ cd src/
$ ./make.all
All of the resulting binaries are in bin/
See tools/README.md.
All source code in this repository is licesned under the GPL v2.
The original ANSI C source code and rules are Copyright 1999 by Richard A. Morneau