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+Pawn
+====
+
+[![Build Status][build_status]][build]
+[![Build Status - Windows][build_status_win]][build_win]
+
+[Original readme](readme.txt)
+
+What is this?
+-------------
+
+This is a modified copy of the Pawn compiler version 3.2.3664 by Compuphase that
+fixes some bugs and adds a few new features.
+
+Changes
+-------
+
+See [Known compiler bugs](../../wiki/Known-compiler-bugs) for the list of fixed bugs
+and [What's new](../../wiki/What's-new) for the list of other notable changes.
+
+Background
+----------
+
+The project was originally started as a set of patches aimed to create a compiler
+that would be compatible with the compiler used in [SA-MP (San Andreas Multiplayer)]
+(http://sa-mp.com/).
+
+SA-MP uses a modified version of Pawn 3.2.3664 [1] with Windows-only executables,
+and the developers said that they lost the source code for it which means it can't
+be ported to other platforms (e.g. Linux) and newly discovered bugs can't be fixed.
+So the main goal of the project is to re-create changes that were
+previously made by the devs as well as fix all known compiler bugs.
+
+[1] It's worth noting that the version of the AMX embedded into the SA-MP server
+seems to be based on a newer release of the Pawn toolkit.
+
+[build]: https://travis-ci.org/Zeex/pawn
+[build_status]: https://travis-ci.org/Zeex/pawn.svg?branch=master
+[build_win]: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Zeex/pawn/branch/master
+[build_status_win]: https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/s1gb9p8dsy7hy1nw?svg=true