games/hugo/playing.txt

HOW TO PLAY HUGO GAMES:
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In order to run a Hugo interactive fiction game, you must have both the
game file (generally ending in the extension .HEX) and the Hugo Engine.
The name of the Hugo Engine program may differ from system to system; on
PC-compatibles running MS-DOS it is HE.EXE.  The engine may be found in
this archive (the Interactive Fiction Archive at ftp.gmd.de) under the
directory /if-archive/programming/hugo/executables.

The format for starting the engine will also differ from system to system.
As an example, the MS-DOS invocation is:

	he <filename>[.HEX]

where <filename> is assumed to have the extension .HEX if none is explicitly
given.

For example, to run the game "Spur" (from the game file SPUR.HEX), an
MS-DOS user would type:

	he spur

(As the Hugo Engine is ported to other platforms, specific instructions
will accompany those ports if the method for running games differs 
substantially from that described above.)