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+Contents
+--------
+
+1. Introduction
+2. Download
+3. Mailinglists
+4. Roadmap
+5. Designer
+6. Legal issues
+
+1. Introduction
+---------------
+
+Atlantik is a KDE client for playing Monopoly-like games on the monopd
+network.
+
+Purpose of the Atlantic board game is to acquire land in major cities in
+North America and Europe while being a transatlantic traveller. One of the
+game modes plays like the popular real estate board game based on Atlantic
+City street names.
+
+Atlantik was previously known as KMonop and might still be referred to as
+such in some documentation.
+
+2. Download
+-----------
+
+Atlantik can be downloaded from
+
+http://unixcode.org/atlantik/
+
+and monopd can be downloaded from
+
+http://unixcode.org/monopd/
+
+However, the latest versions of both projects are found in CVS.
+
+Atlantik is located in the CVS repository of the KDE project in the module
+kdegames. See http://www.kde.org/anoncvs.html for instructions how to
+download KDE modules from CVS. Atlantik is included in the kdegames package
+since the KDE 3.1 release.
+
+For more information on monopd CVS see the monopd pages on
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/monopd/
+
+Both monopd and Atlantik are in heavy development and it is important to match
+versions when connecting to a game server. One can choose a suitable server
+through the Monopigator interface.
+
+3. Mailinglists
+--------------=
+
+There are mailinglists available for discussion of Atlantik development. The
+atlantik-devel list is for general discussion and development of the
+codebase, the atlantik-cvs list has all the CVS commits in it and the
+atlantik-artists list is for the development of GFX/SFX for Atlantik.
+
+See http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/atlantik-devel
+See http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/atlantik-cvs
+and http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/atlantik-artists
+
+on information on subscribing, posting and list archives.
+
+There is a seperate mailinglist for monopd related discussion:
+
+To subscribe, send e-mail to: [email protected]
+To post, send e-mail to: [email protected]
+
+4. Roadmap
+----------
+
+The TODO file gives a nice approximation of desired functionality and
+priorities. It can be used as roadmap or checklist.
+
+5. Designer
+-----------
+
+Atlantik Designer is a game board designer that will create game config
+files for monopd. You can find it in KDE CVS, module kdeaddons.
+
+6. Legal issues
+---------------
+
+Many people have expressed their concerns about possible copyrights,
+trademarks and patents applicable to Monopoly� and the possible implications
+for Atlantik (and monopd) development and distribution.
+
+I believe that Atlantik and monopd are completely clear of violating any
+copyrights, trademarks or patents and that there are no legal issues that
+might affect development or distibution of either application.
+
+For more information, please read
+
+http://unixcode.org/atlantik/legal.html