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+Pentagram is a project aiming to create an Ultima 8 engine for use on
+modern operating systems, including Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
+
+While it is currently possible to finish Ultima 8 using Pentagram,
+not everything is fully working yet. (Save regularly!) In the game
+itself, most notably, the combat AI of monsters is still very limited,
+and there are still quite a few minor things which are not working as
+well as they should.
+
+Optionally, pentagram can use TiMidity++ or fluidsynth for in-game music
+(detected at compile time, must be enabled in pentagram.ini or in-game
+menu).
+
+Pentagram is only an engine. To actually play the game, you will
+need an installed copy of "Ultima VIII: Pagan". Either copy the
+game directory (the one containing u8.exe) to /usr/share/pentagram
+(so that /usr/share/pentagram/u8.exe exists), or edit the 'path=' in
+~/.pentagram/pentagram.ini to point to your existing game directory.
+Pentagram is smart enough to ignore the case of filenames, so U8.exe or
+U8.EXE would also be OK.
+
+YOU MUST OWN THE GAME in order to play it with pentagram. Do not contact
+pentagram's authors or the author of this SlackBuild asking for illegal
+copies of Ultima 8: such requests will be ignored, at best.