This is a completely unsupported release of Kareltima III: The Self-Beating
Machine. Read the file COPYING for more information.

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Kareltima is a joke on many levels. It's a DOS program -- a joke in and of
itself. The name is a reference to Alexandros Karelas who perpetrated the
first two Kareltimas in Turbo Pascal. It's a spoof of the Richard Garriot's
Ultima games (of which both Alexandros and I are long-time fans). It's a
Roguelike game, which means it uses text and block graphics instead of
raster graphics. It features inside jokes and various friends, including
cameo appearances by Andreas Gazis (aka Armadillo Gazeer) and Marinna
Zannara (aka Silwen Thorontari). 

Kareltima I (whose subtitle I can no longer remember) is long lost.
Kareltima II: the Ugly Shopkeeper is available, but in binary form only.
Alexandros Karelas wrote these two sometime in mid-1992. Kareltima III: The
Self-Beating Machine was written by moi, although I used some dialogues from
the previous two games (and many of the characters). It's more colourful
than the previous two games, but still follows the same general style.


Alexios Chouchoulas
