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+# Penguin Telegard
+
+Penguin Telegard is an attempt at nostalgia; I have ported a chunk
+of the old, DOS-based BBS package to Linux. The source is in Pascal,
+so you will need the (very good) toolchain from the
+[Free Pascal](https://www.freepascal.org/) website.
+
+This project is currently not being worked on, but volunteers that
+would like to tackle it are always welcome.