home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
Text File | 1994-11-11 | 47.2 KB | 1,741 lines |
-
- ____ _______ ____ ________
- \ \/ /_ /_ | / _____/_____ _____ ____ ______
- \ / | || | / \ ___\__ \ / \_/ __ \ / ___/
- / \ | || | \ \_\ \/ __ \| Y Y \ ___/ \___ \
- /___/\ \|___||___| \______ (____ /__|_| /\___ >____ >
- \_/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/
-
- Created by Justin Kibell
- """"""""""""""""""""""""
-
- Updated: 18th August 1994
- Last Posted: 18th August 1994
-
- The following list of games for the X Window System are in a random order.
- The data on each game has been collected from both archives and from email
- from the authors. If something needs updating or you have a game you want
- to add then email me with the details. jck@citri.edu.au
-
- * This is NOT a complete list of games available. *
-
- If you maintain an archive site that is mentioned in this document and you
- don't want ot be then please email me and I will remove your site from this
- document. This goes for any game author in this list also. If some game details
- are incorrect or not good enough then please send your suggestions to me.
-
- *** Please do not ask me how to compile all these games for your system. ***
- Most game authors are available via email so ask them please. Thanks.
-
- The format I have chosen for the game entries is supposed to be simple, but
- comprehensive enough to browse through and check out what's available. Some
- of the entries may be missing due to lack of information. If you have some
- information that will enable me to fill in the gaps please send it to me.
-
- Template:-
-
- Title: The name by which the game is most recognised.
- Author: The author(s) of the game. It may a group of people or just one.
- email: The electronic mail address you use to contact the developers.
- Version: The latest version number of the software.
- Features: Color/Sound/Single-player/Multi-player/...
- Requires: What is needed to run the game (Color/Sound/X11R6/100 Gigabytes/...)
- Location: Where you can ftp the software from. Please use this resource
- wisely and download games after hours. :-)
- Archive: Where the game can be located on the archive site. ie: directory.
- Status: Development/Finished/Alpha/Beta/New release/Unstable/Unsupported.
- Updated: Date of last update for FAQ entry.
-
-
- I think every good computer system has had good games so why not promote
- those on the X Window System! This document will be posted to comp.windows.x
- and comp.windows.x.apps every now and then. It can also be found on ftp.x.org.
-
- If you have the details for some entries that are not complete then please
- send them and I will add them. I haven't time to get each game and check it
- out so if you have already then we all benefit!
-
-
- PLEASE NOTE THAT ftp.x.org HAS MOVED ALL NEW STUFF into /contrib AND THEN INTO
- AN ORDERED DIRECTORY SETUP - SOME GAME LOCATIONS MAY BE OUT OF DATE!!!
-
- Try /R5contrib if the game cannot be found in /contrib/games
-
-
- GAMES INDEX (In NO order)
- =========================
-
- <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
-
- 01 - X Blow Up 26 - Lander 51 - Layout Games Pack
- 02 - XAmigo 27 - XBattle 52 - XFortress
- 03 - XBomb 28 - Battle Zone 53 - XConq
- 04 - Spy vs Bob 29 - Hearts 54 - XGolf
- 05 - 4 War 30 - Ataxx 55 - Mazewar
- 06 - Net Maze 31 - Missile X 56 - XPipe Man
- 07 - XRisk 32 - Mr. Is 57 - Dodger
- 08 - Generic Tetris 33 - Jewel 58 - Jet Set Willy
- 09 - XVMines 34 - XTank 59 - Connect Four
- 10 - Crossfire 35 - XPilot 60 - X Block Out
- 11 - Mahjongg 36 - Spellcast 61 - XFred
- 12 - Mille 37 - XBoing 62 -
- 13 - SpaceOut 38 - Bowling 63 -
- 14 - xhextris 39 - Tank Hunt 64 -
- 15 - Stratego 40 - Xtet42 65 -
- 16 - ACM 41 - XDemineur 66 -
- 17 - 3D Tetris 42 - Xtb 67 -
- 18 - Boulder Dash 43 - XBlast 68 -
- 19 - XTrek 44 - XBoard 69 -
- 20 - Black Jack 45 - Xics 70 -
- 21 - Blockbuster 46 - Spider 71 -
- 22 - Minesweeper 47 - NetHack 72 -
- 23 - XPool 48 - XChomp 73 -
- 24 - Tetris 49 - XFallout 74 -
- 25 - asteriods 50 - XSokoban 75 -
-
- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
-
- New games in this revision: 5
- Total Number of games listed: 61
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- X Blow Up
- =========
-
- Xblowup is for releasing frustration. It is a 2 player blow-each-other-up
- game mildly reminiscent of asteroids.
-
- Title: xblowup
- Author: Reed Wade
- email: wade@cs.utk.edu
- Version: 1.1
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: iraun1.ira.uka.de
- Archive: /pub/X11/xblowup.tar.Z
- Status:
- Updated: 15th November 1993
-
-
- XAmigo
- ======
-
- Xamigo is a simple interface to the AmiGo Go playing program, originally
- written for the Amiga computer. The Go player was written by Stoney Ballard,
- with additional code by Todd R. Johnson.
-
- Title: xamigo
- Author: Neil Bowers & others.
- email: neilb@scs.leeds.ac.uk
- Version: 1.0
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: iraun1.ira.uka.de
- Archive: /pub/X11/xamigo.sh.Z
- Status: beta
- Updated: 8th November 1993
-
-
- XBomb
- =====
-
- xbomb is an rewrite and extension of the minesweeper game found on various PCs.
- The object of the game is to clear a field of deadly bombs. To do this requires
- only two mouse buttons, one key and a devastatingly clever man page which
- describes the game in greater detail.
-
- Title: xbomb
- Author: Matthew Merzbacher
- email: matthew@cs.ucla.edu
- Version: 1.2
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: iraun1.ira.uka.de
- Archive: /pub/X11/xbomb-1.2.tar.Z
- Status:
- Updated: 8th November 1993
-
-
- Spy vs Bob
- ==========
-
- In svb, you control the Spy (Pink) who is trying to escape the building. The
- "BoB"s in the elevators are trying to stop you. The goal is to get across the
- screen without being smashed by a "BoB" before time runs out. Any leftover
- time is added to your score as a bonus. The "BoB"s will change speed each time
- they change direction. On each ledge some "SLACK" will appear after a random
- delay. Picking this up is worth 500 bonus points.
-
- Title: svb
- Author: David Lemke
- email: lemke@ncd.com
- Version: 1.0
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/netaudio/contrib/svb.shar
- Status: Now has NetAudio support.
- Updated: 15th December 1993
-
-
- 4 War
- =====
-
- This is a board game which implements the Chinese four-state war game in the
- X Window environment. It allows four players to play the game on four displays,
- each coordinating a complete army, players at the opposite position of the
- playing board are allied. The goal of the game is to capture the COLOURS of
- the enemy.
- I heard it's sort of like the American game 'stratego'.
-
- Title: x4war
- Author: Xiaobing Chen
- email: xiaobing@cs.sfu.ca
- Version: 1.1
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/x4war1.1.tar.Z
- Status:
- Updated: 15th November 1993
-
-
- Net Maze
- ========
-
- Netmaze is a multiplayer comabt game. You play in a maze with 3D graphics.
- You can shoot and the object of the game is to hunt down and kill the other
- players.
-
- Title: netmaze
- Author: Michael Hipp
- email: mhipp@student.uni-tuebingen.de
- Version: 0.81
- Features: Colour, 3D, multi-player, server, TEXTURE MAPPING on walls!
- Requires: fast X server, fastish network.
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: contrib/netmaze0.81.tar.gz
- Status: Under more developement.
- Updated: 18th April 1994
-
-
- XRisk
- =====
-
- XRisk is a game running under the X window system, that looks very much like
- the "Risk" board game published by Parker Brothers, Inc.
-
- The object of the game is very simple: World Conquest or fullfillment of a
- mission. To obtain this goal, each player places and moves his own armies on
- the board, and attacks the armies of other players until a certain mission
- (chosen by the computer) is accomplished, or until the world is totally
- conquered. Xrisk might be played with 1 or 2 active players.
-
- Title: xrisk
- Author: Members of Programmers Workshop, NTH, Norway
- email: xrisk@pvv.unit.no
- Version: 2.15
- Features: Colour, multi-player
- Requires: Colour
- Location: ftp.pvv.unit.no
- Archive: /pub/pvv-source/unix/games
- Status: Stable
- Updated: 5th August 1994
-
-
- Generic Tetris
- ==============
-
- Yet Another Tetris Game on X. One of the motivations of this tetris program
- is simplicity. It does not have many fancy features but the blocks are big
- enough so player can feel comfortable.
-
- Title: tetris
- Author: Q. Alex Zhao
- email: azhao@cc.gatech.edu
- Version: 3.1.0
- Features: Colour, single-player
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/tetris.3.1.0.tar.Z (official version)
- Archive: /contrib/altetris.tar.Z (hacked by David A. Bagley)
- Status: stable
- Updated: 8th November 1993
-
-
- XVmines
- =======
-
- Discover and deactivate the mines in rectangular mine field.
- Similar to the MS-Windows minesweeper; requires XView.
-
- Title: xvmines
- Author: Manolis Lourakis
- email: lourakis@csd.uch.gr
- Version: 1.0
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.x.org, ftp.csd.uch.gr
- Archive: /contrib/xvmines-1.0.tar.Z
- Archive: /pub/X/xvmines-1.0.tar.Z
- Status: Finished
- Updated: 9th November 1993
-
- Crossfire
- =========
-
- CrossFire is a multiplayer graphical arcade and adventure game made for the
- X-Window environment. It has certain flavours from other games, especially
- Gauntlet (TM) and Nethack/Moria. Any number of players can move around in
- their own window, picking up / using items and battle monsters. The players
- all do battle in the same world, and can communicate with eachothers (even
- fight with each other). The goal of the game is to survive.
-
- Title: crossfire
- Author: Frank Tore Johansen
- email: frankj@ifi.uio.no
- Version: 0.89.2
- Features: Colour, sound, multi-player
- Requires:
- Location: ifi.uio.no
- Archive: /pub/crossfire/crossfire-0.89.2.tar.Z
- Status: stable
- Updated: 15th March 1993
-
-
- Mahjongg
- ========
-
-
- Title: xvmahjongg
- Author:
- email:
- Version: 2.1
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/xvmahjongg2.1.tar.Z
- Status:
- Updated: 22nd Decemeber 1992
-
-
- Mille
- =====
-
- X version of the classic Mille Bournes game.
-
- Title: xmille
- Author: Keith Packard
- email:
- Version:
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/xmille.tar.Z
- Status:
- Updated: 2nd April 1992
-
-
- SpaceOut
- ========
-
-
- Title: spaceout
- Author:
- email:
- Version:
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/spaceoutX11R4.shar
- Status:
- Updated: 25th September 1990
-
-
- xhextris
- ========
-
- Hexagonal version of tetris, by David Markley.
-
- Title: xhextris
- Author: David Markley
- email:
- Version:
- Features: Single-player
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/xhextris.tar.Z
- Status:
- Updated: 30th March 1991
-
-
- Stratego
- ========
-
- Xstratego is a X windows based stratego interface for two players.
- You can either play against another player (on the same or different host)
- or create a board setup for later use.
-
- The man page includes a summary of the Stratego rules, in case you haven't
- played in awhile.
-
- Title: xstratego
- Author: Michiel Huisjes
- email: huisjes@cs.vu.nl
- Version:
- Features: Colour, 2 player
- Requires: 2 players
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/xstratego.tar.Z
- Status:
- Updated: 20th December 1993
-
-
- ACM
- ===
-
- Acm is a LAN-oriented, multiplayer aerial combat simulation. My main design
- objective was to provide source code that could be easily compiled and
- executed on a wide variety of platforms. To that end, acm is written entirely
- in C, exploiting the programming features of Unix, X11, and the BSD socket
- interface.
-
- Title: acm
- Author: Riley Rainey
- email: riley@netcom.com
- Version: 4.2
- Features: Color, 3D, multi-player
- Requires: -
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/acm-4.2.tar.Z
- Status: Stable
- Updated: 27th January 1994
-
-
- 3D Tetris
- =========
-
- t3d is a 3D-Graphics game demonstrating the usage of PEX extension to the
- X Window System via Phigs API, with X-Toolkit and Athena widget set. It is
- based on the traditional tetris game.
-
- Title: t3d
- Author: Yotam Medini
- email: yotam@fai.com
- Version: 0.0 ??
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/T3D.tar.Z
- Status:
- Updated: 27th May 1992
-
-
- Boulder Dash
- ============
-
- This game has a cute fellow that runs around in mines dodging boulders and
- collecting diamonds for points. Meanies take chase. Very similar to C64 ver.
- Boulder-dash is still in an experimental phase. Mail your bug reports,
- interesting new levels, ideas to the author.
-
- Title: bd
- Author: Jeroen Houttuin ??
- email: SnailMail: Jeroen Houttuin, Informatikdienste, ETH Zurich 1990
- Version: 1.1
- Features: Very similar to Commodore 64 version - same levels. Addictive
- Requires:
- Location: ?
- Archive: ?
- Status: beta
- Updated: 22nd March 1994
-
-
- XTrek
- =====
-
- The basic object of the game is to conquer sixteen (by default) planets for
- your empire. Of course, everyone else is trying to achive the same objective,
- and that is where all of the fun comes in.
-
- You may want to check out Netrek as well. This version is a not all X11ish
- It is different but worth noting. Check out rec.games.netrek for more info.
-
- Title: xtrek
- Author: Dan Lovinger
- email: dl2n+@andrew.cmu.edu
- Version: 6
- Features: Colour, multi-player
- Requires: -
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/xtrek.tar.Z
- Status: stable
- Updated: 17th December 1991
-
-
- Black Jack
- ==========
-
- Xblackjack is a MOTIF/OLIT based tool constructed to get you ready for the
- casino. It was inspired by a book called "Beat the Dealer" by Edward O. Thorp,
- Ph.D. of UCLA. A number of important statistics are maintained for display,
- and used by the program to implement Thorp's "Complete Point System"
- (high-low system).
-
- Title: xblackjack
- Author: Kirk Erickson
- email: kirke@sgi.com
- Version: 2.1
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/xblackjack-2.1.tar.Z
- Status: stable
- Updated: 24th September 1992
-
-
- Blockbuster
- ===========
-
- XBlockbuster is a variation of the break-out type games, only a bit more
- complex in the type of bricks it has and effects the bricks have. It is
- X11 based. It should work on any system that has X11R5 (or R4) installed.
-
- Title: xblockbuster
- Author: Mark Wedel
- email: master@cats.ucsc.edu
- Version: 1.03
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/xblockbuster1.03.tar.Z
- Status: stable
- Updated: 20th May 1993
-
-
- Minesweeper
- ===========
-
- xminesweep is a game in which you have to mark all the mines in a playing
- field, you have to work out where they are from information about the
- number of mines around a Cell in the playing field. It is an addictive mind
- game ;) Similar to the MS-Windows version of minesweeper.
-
- Title: xminesweep
- Author: Ashley Roll
- email: aroll@gucis.cit.gu.edu.au
- Version: 2.1
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/xminesweep2.1.tar.Z
- Status: stable
- Updated: 5th April 1993
-
-
- XPool
- =====
-
- Xpool is a X window game which simulates a billiard game by using an
- approach called Discrete Element Method(DEM).
-
- Title: xpool
- Author: Ismail ARIT
- email: iarit@tara.mines.colorado.edu
- Version: 1.3
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/XpoolTable1.3.tar.Z
- Status: stable
- Updated: 15th June 1993
-
-
- Tetris
- ======
-
- Xtetris is a game involving dropping blocks. As they drop you can move them
- to the left or to the right by clicking the left or right mouse buttons
- respectively. Pressing the shift key while clicking the button causes the
- falling shape to rotate anti-clockwise (left mouse button) or clockwise
- (right mouse button). Pressing the middle mouse button causes the shape to
- quickly drop.
-
- Title: xtetris
- Authors: Dan R. Greening, Adam Marguilies, Phill Everson, and Didier Tallot
- email: xtetris@cs.ucla.edu
- Version: 2.5.2
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/xtetris-2.5.2.tar.Z
- Status: Stable
- Updated: 30th December 1992
-
-
- asteriods
- =========
-
- X windows based asteroids style arcade game. You are a space ship and you
- are surrounded by lots of asteriods that are intent on destroying your ship
- by crashing into you. Your mission is to stay alive.
-
- Title: xasteriods
- Author: Phil Goetz
- email: goetz@cs.buffalo.EDU
- Version: 5
- Features: single-player
- Requires: -
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/xasteriods.sh.Z
- Status: stable
- Updated: 16th Feburary 1993
-
-
- Lander
- ======
-
- xlander is a lunar landing simulation for X. The object is to successfully
- land the craft on the surface of the moon or some other planet. The program
- features "out-the-window" 3-d wire-frame graphics and full directional
- control of the lander. For further instructions, please refer to the man page.
-
- Title: xlander
- Author: Paul Riddle, Mike Friedman
- email: paulr@umbc3.umbc.edu, mikef@umbc3.umbc.edu
- Version: 1.0
- Features: 3D, single-player
- Requires: -
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/xlander.shar.Z
- Status: Stable
- Updated: 19th May 1992
-
-
- XBattle
- =======
-
- xbattle is a concurrent multi-player battle strategy game that captures the
- dynamics of a wide range of military scenarios. It is based on X windows,
- which you must have installed to run this game. Players play from separate
- displays, and commands are executed concurrently, i.e. the players do not
- take "turns", they all issue their commands simultaneously. There can be
- any number of players, and each player is assigned to a color team (or black,
- white & gray for monochrome monitors). The game board is a matrix of squares
- that can be occupied by colored troops, and the aim of the game is to
- eliminate the enemy from the board by attacking squares occupied enemy troops.
-
- Title: xbattle
- Author: Steve Lehar, Greg Lesher
- email: slehar@cns.bu.edu, lesher@cns.bu.edu, xbattle_request@park.bu.edu
- Version: 4.0
- Features: Colour, multi-player
- Requires: -
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/xbattle-4.0.tar.Z
- Status: stable
- Updated: 11th November 1992
-
-
- Battle Zone
- ===========
-
- Cbzone is a version of Battlezone derived from the Fortran sources written
- by Justin S. Revenaugh. This version is more flexible in that the number
- of opponents is user selectable.
-
- Title: cbzone
- Author: Todd Mummert
- email: mummert+@cs.cmu.edu
- Version: 1.1
- Features: Colour, Sound, single-player
- Requires: -
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/cbzone.tar.Z or /contrib/cbzone-sound.tar.gz
- Status: new sound version
- Updated: 2nd August 1993
-
-
- Hearts
- ======
-
- Hearts is yet another benign, mindless card game. This particular variation
- is four-handed, with up to four human players allowed. The remaining hands
- are played by the computer. Players may join at any time. A computer player
- will replace any player that leaves the game.
-
- Title: xhearts
- Authors: Bob Ankeney, Mike Yang
- email: mikey@sgi.com
- Version:
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/xhearts.tar.Z
- Status: Stable
- Updated: 10th January 1992
-
-
- Ataxx
- =====
-
- XAtaxx is a strategy game based on Ataxx, a popular arcade video game. It is
- a game of position and movement. The object is to have the most pieces of
- your color on the board at the end of the game.
-
- Title: xataxx
- Authors: Jim Zelenka, Steven Gifford, Andrew Plotkin & Co.
- email: jz1j@andrew.cmu.edu
- Version: 1.1
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/xataxx.tar.Z
- Status: Finished
- Updated: 28th October 1991
-
-
-
- Missile X
- =========
-
- This is a game of "Defend The Cities From The Falling Missiles", in the
- style of the old arcade game.
-
- Title: missileX
- Authors: Sandy Walsh, John Rochester.
- email: sandy@garfield.cs.mun.ca
- Version: 1.1
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: iraun1.ira.uka.de in /pub/x11
- Archive: missileX-1.1.tar.Z
- Status: stable
- Updated: 15th November 1993
-
-
- Mr. Is
- ======
-
- Xmris is a version of the Mr Do video arcade game for the X Window System.
- It uses the toolkit intrinsics and Xmu widget set.
-
- Title: xmris
- Author: Nathan Sidwell
- email: nathan@inmos.co.uk
- Version: 4.00
- Features: Colour, single-player, level editor, sprites
- Requires: -
- Location: ftp.x.org in /contrib
- Archive: xmris.4.00.tar.gz
- Status: new version
- Updated: 20th December 1993
-
-
- Jewel
- =====
-
- Jewel is a game much like Domain/Jewelbox which is a puzzle game like
- Tetris. It is played by controling the motion of blocks which continue
- to fall from the top of the screen. One can move them left and right,
- as well as rotate the jewel segements. The object is to get the most
- points before the grim reaper ends the fun.
-
- Title: xjewel
- Authors: David Cooper, Jose Guterman
- email:
- Version: 1.6
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: iraun1.ira.uka.de
- Archive: /pub/x11/xjewel-1.6.tar.Z
- Status: stable
- Updated: 15th November 1993
-
-
- XTank
- =====
-
- Xtank is a multi-player vehicle combat game played in mazes of various
- sizes and types. You control a vehicle (usually a tank) equipped with
- the latest in armor and weaponry. Your objective depends on the game
- you play.
-
- Title: xtank
- Author: Terry Donahue & Co.
- email:
- Version: 3.1f
- Features: Colour, sound, multi-player
- Requires: -
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/xtank1.3f.tar.Z
- Status: stable
- Updated: 26th November 1992
-
-
- XPilot
- ======
-
- XPilot is a multiplayer game which looks a bit like Thrust for the Commodore
- 64. Thrust has some similarities with Atari's coin-up games Gravitar and
- Asteriods (not a misspelling) - they were the originals. Several clones
- have appeared for various computers, among others Gravity Force for the
- Commodore Amiga.
-
- Title: XPilot
- Author: Bjoern Stabell, Ken Ronny Schouten, Bert Gijsbers & Co.
- email: xpilot@cs.uit.no
- Newsgroup: alt.games.xpilot
- Version: 3.1.3 (I'm sure it is higher now!!)
- Features: Color, Sound, Multi-player, Internet worldwide.
- Metaserver: telnet xpilot.cs.uit.no 4400
- Requires: UNIX, ANSI C compiler (like gcc), fast X, 3-5 MB diskspace.
- Location: ftp.cs.uit.no in /pub/games/xpilot
- ftp.x.org in /contrib/games/xpilot
- Archive: xpilot-3.1.3.tar.gz
- Status: Development, Finished, New release, Stable, Supported.
- Updated: 5th August 1994
-
-
- Spellcast
- ==========
-
- Spellcast is a strange little strategy game, which I found on the Net and
- have implemented for X. Basically, two or more players try to vaporize
- each other with a wide assortment of wizardly spells.
-
- Title: xspellcast
- Author: Andrew Plotkin
- email: ap1i+@andrew.cmu.edu
- Version: 3.01
- Features: multi-player
- Requires: -
- Location: anubis.ac.hmc.edu
- Archive: /pub/games/spellcast.tar.gz
- Status: stable
- Updated: 15th November 1993
-
-
- XBoing
- ======
-
- XBoing is a blockout type game where you have a paddle which you use to
- bounce a ball around the game area blowing up blocks with the ball. You win by
- obtaining points for each block destroyed and each level completed. The person
- with the highest score wins.
-
- Title: xboing
- Author: Justin Kibell
- email: jck@citri.edu.au
- Version: 2.2
- Features: Colour, sound, single-player, level editor, game saves, arcade like.
- Requires: Lots of Colours, ANSI or K&R C, Beefy X server!
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/games/xboing-2.0.tar.gz
- Status: X11R6 accepted.
- Updated: 8th June 1994
-
-
-
- Bowling
- =======
-
- xbowl is a bowling game written in John Ousterhout's wonderful TCL/Tk
- language. No TCL/Tk extensions are required by xbowl. The dist file is
- also located here called xbowl-dist-2.0.tar.Z.
-
- Title: xbowl
- Author: Peter Grina
- email: grina@fai.com
- Version: 1.2
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu
- Archive: /pub/tcl/code/xbowl-1.4.Z
- Status: stable
- Updated: 15th November 1993
-
-
- Tank Hunt
- =========
-
- This game is a multiplayer tank search and destroy type of game. You are look-
- ing down onto a play field and you run around shooting each other.
-
- Title: tankhunt
- Authors: Ray Jones, Michael Moore
- email: rjones@dsd.es.com, mmoore@dsd.es.com
- Version: 0.0.0
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/tankhunt.tar.Z
- Status:
- Updated: 5th April 1993
-
-
- Xtet42
- ======
-
- Xtet42 is X version of tetris for 1 or 2 players. The 2 player
- version is definitly fun playing once in a while.
-
- Title: xtet42
- Author: Hugo Eide Gunnarsen
- email: hugogu@pvv.unit.no
- Version: 2.01
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.pvv.unit.no
- Archive: /pub/pvv-source/unix/games/xtet42-2.01.tar.Z
- Status: Stable
- Updated: 5th August 1994
-
-
- XDemineur
- =========
-
- Xdemineur is a minefield game. You have to find where the mines are with the
- help of numbers which indicate the number of mines around a cell. Good luck!
-
- Title: xdemineur
- Author: Marc Baudoin
- email: baudoin@ensta.fr
- Version: 1.1
- Features: Colour, single-player
- Requires: -
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/xdemineur-1.1.tar.Z
- Status: version 1.1 coming soon
- Updated: 20th December 1993
-
-
- Xtb
- ===
-
- Xtb is a simple multi-player, multi-workstation tank battle.
- The code size is small ~3000 lines, and uses a client-server structure so
- that X security is not affected.
-
- Title: xtb
- Author: Bernard Hatt
- email: bmh@terminus.ericsson.se
- Version: v8
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/xtb.v8.tar.Z
- Status: stable
- Updated: 14th November 1993
-
-
- XBlast
- ======
-
- XBlast is an multi player arcade game for X11. Up to four players
- are running around in a maze and are blasting away walls and other
- the players. The aim of the game is quite simple: "There can be
- only one" (Kurgan).
-
- Title: xblast
- Author: Oliver Vogel
- email: vogel@ikp.uni-koeln.de
- Version: 1.00
- Features: Multi-player, addictive, interactive setup, build your own levels.
- Requires: X11R5, 2 to 4 players
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/xblast.1.00.tar.gz
- Status: New Release
- Updated: 25th January 1994
-
-
- XBoard
- ======
-
- XBoard is a graphical chessboard that can serve as a user interface for GNU
- Chess, for the Internet Chess Server (ICS), or for electronic mail
- correspondence chess. XBoard can also be used by itself.
-
- Title: xboard
- Author: Dan Sears and Chris Sears (origninal), Tim Mann (current)
- email: mann@src.dec.com
- Version: 3.1
- Features: X11 interface
- Requires: GNU Chess?
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: contrib/games/xboard-3.1.tar.gz
- Status: stable
- Updated: 8th June 1994
-
-
- Xics
- ====
-
- xics is an X client interface to the Internet Chess Server (ICS) which is
- currently located at "telnet ics.uoknor.edu 5000". xics is a simpler
- program than xboard, but fine for talking to the ICS.
-
- Title: xics
- Author: Shirish Chinchalkar
- email: chinch@cs.cornell.edu
- Version: 2.2
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: ics.uoknor.edu
- Archive: pub/chess/X/xics-2.2.tar.gz
- Status: Finished
- Updated: 16th November 1993
-
-
- Spider
- ======
-
- Spider is a particularly challenging double-deck solitaire. Unlike most
- solitaires, it provides extraordinary opportunities for the skillful player
- to overcome bad luck in the deal by means of careful analysis and complex
- manipulations. The Spider program does not actually play the game for you,
- but rather takes the place of the cards (by displaying the tableau on the
- screen) and keeping a record of the game so that you can follow out long
- lines of play without losing track of where you started from. (Besides, it's
- a neat display hack.)
-
-
- Title: spider
- Author: Don Woods, Dave Lemke, Heather Rose
- email: lemke@ncd.com
- Version: 1.1
- Features: ?
- Requires: ?
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /R5/contrib-?
- Status: Ships with R5 in contrib directory.
- Updated: 1st February 1994
-
-
- NetHack
- =======
-
- NetHack now has an X11 interface. A single player D&D inspired game.
-
- Title: NetHack
- Author: A cast of thousands.
- email: nethack-bugs@linc.cis.upenn.edu
- Version: 3.1.3
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: linc.cis.upenn.edu
- Archive: /pub/NH3.1/
- Status: Stable
- Updated: 15th December 1993
-
-
- Xchomp
- ======
-
- Xchomp is a game closely patterned after Pac-Man(tm) that runs under the
- X window system. I've tried to make the game as close as possible to the
- original Pac-Man. However, I have not seen a Pac-Man arcade machine for years
- so all the elements of the game have been recalled from memory. Also, I've
- added something which I always felt was missing from Pac-Man, namely several
- different mazes.
-
- Title: xchomp
- Author: Jerry J. Shekhel
- email: (UUCP) polygen!fred!jerry@sunne.East
- Version: 1.1
- Features: Single-player
- Requires: -
- Location: (?) qiclab.scn.rain.com
- Archive: /pub/X11/xchomp.tar.Z
- Status: Stable
- Updated: 16th December 1993
-
-
- XFallout
- ========
-
- XFallout is a game of blocks that runs under the X Window System. Similar to
- the other X game called xjewel.
-
- Title: xfallout
- Authors: Yannis Kavaklis, Manolis Lourakis, Agelos Keromitis
- email: {kavaklis,lourakis,kermit}@csd.uch.gr
- Version: 1.0
- Features: Single-player, colour
- Requires: Athena Widgets
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/xfallout1.0.tar
- Status: first release
- Updated: 24th December 1993
-
-
- XSokoban
- ========
-
- The goal of xsokoban is to push all the round objects into the score area of
- each level using the mouse or the arrow keys. The arrow keys move the player
- in the corresponding direction, pushing an object if it is in the way and
- there is a clear space on the other side. The mouse buttons each have a
- distinct function.
-
- Title: xsokoban
- Authors: Andrew Myers, Joseph L. Traub, Kevin Solie, and many others
- email: andru@lcs.mit.edu
- Version: 3.0
- Features: single player
- Requires: Athena Widgets
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/xsokoban3.0.tar.Z
- Status: stable
- Updated: 24th December 1993
-
-
- Virtual Combat
- ==============
-
- This is the first release of virtual combat, a multi-user 3d game running
- under X11. The game is a battle simulation, with each player being
- represented by a 3d object. The idea of the game is to be the last person
- left alive in the game.
-
- Title: vircom
- Authors: David Jameson
- email: u9108009@athmail1.causeway.qub.ac.uk, ae553@yfn.ysu.edu
- Version: 1.0
- Features: Multiplayer, 3D, colour, server system
- Requires: ansi compiler
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/vircom-1.0.tar.Z
- Status: First release
- Updated: 24th December 1993
-
-
- Layout Games Pack
- =================
-
- When I wrote my Layout widget, I put together a bunch of sample
- applications, including some solitare games.
-
- xmille - my old X10 game updated and enhanced
- spider - The classic two deck solitare
- reversi - othello; another X10 game
- montana - A single deck solitare
- canfield - Just like the old unix canfield program, except pretty
- thieves - Another double deck solitare, nearly unwinnable though
- klondike - Classic single deck solitare just like in Vegas
- towers - Another single deck solitare
-
- The solitare games share a common library for dealing with decks of playing
- cards, and new ones can easily be written. All support arbitrary undo,
- scoring and hints.
-
- Alas, none of the games come with any sort of instructions, so you'll
- have to figure out how to play on your own; this is made easier as the
- games prohibit any illegal play.
-
- Title: layout
- Author: Keith Packard
- email: keithp@ncd.com
- Version: 1.0
- Features: many card games, single player
- Requires: Xt
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/Layout.tar.Z
- Status: more to come
- Updated: 15th March 1994
-
-
- XFortress
- =========
-
- You must beat your opponent by having the main part of the territory. There are
- three fortification levels, to obtain the control over one square you must have
- more influence on it than your adversary. If you have more influence than your
- opponent on a square occupied by him, his castle is destroyed.
-
- Title: xfortress
- Authors: Yves 'The Spif' Lafon
- email: demay@enseeiht.fr
- Version: 1.1
- Features: multi-player, bw
- Requires: Xt
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/xfortress-1.1.tar.z
- Status: stable
- Updated: 14th January 1994
-
-
- XConq
- =====
-
- Xconq is a configurable multi-player strategy game, with scenarios
- ranging from empire-building to outer space to monsters in Tokyo.
- You can play with any combination of human and AI players, up to
- seven or so, and game worlds can range from 20x20 hexes up to an
- enormous 360x122 map of the world. Xconq mailing list,
- xconq@uunet.uu.net
-
- Title: xconq
- Authors: Stan Shebs
- email: shebs@cygnus.com
- Version: 5.5.1a
- Features: multiplayer, game programming language, curses version
- Requires: X11R4+
- Location: ftp.uu.net
- Archive: pub/games/xconq
- Status: finished (7.0 in beta)
- Updated: 28th January 1994
-
-
- XGolf
- =====
-
- Title: xgolf
- Authors: ?
- email: ?
- Version: ?
- Features: ?
- Requires: Your clubs!
- Location: ?
- Archive: ?
- Status: Is it a myth or reality.
- Updated: 27th January 1994
-
-
- Mazewar
- =======
-
- Title: mazewar
- Authors: Chris Kantarjiev
- email: kantarjiev@parc.xerox.com
- Version:
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location:
- Archive:
- Status: Please fill in details!
- Updated: 31st January 1994
-
-
- XPipe Man
- =========
-
- Title: xpipeman
- Authors: Nigel Paver
- email: pavern@cs.man.ac.uk
- Version:
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: On R5 contrib tape
- Archive:
- Status:
- Updated: 31st January 1994
-
-
- Dodger
- ======
-
- Title: dodger
- Author: Bert Nelson
- email: bnelson@csulx.weber.edu
- Version: Jan 1992
- Features: Imakefile, colour/bw, single player
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: dodger.sh
- Status: stable
- Updated: 18th Febuuary 1994
-
-
- Jet Set Willy
- =============
-
- Collect all the items dispersed in your huge mansion, trying to avoid
- unfriendly things.
-
- Title: jetset
- Author: Florent Guillaume
- email: Florent.Guillaume@ens.fr
- Version: 1.0
- Features: B&W or Color, Single-player, platform game!!
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: contrib/jetset-1.0.tar.gz
- Status: First release
- Updated: 7th March 1994
-
-
- XFil
- ====
-
- A logic game very similar to connect four where you must place coins into slots
- in such a way to have four in a row. Human vs computer player with multiple
- levels.
-
- Title: xfil
- Authors: Sasa Skevin
- email: ssasa@diana.zems.etf.hr, ssasa@srce.hr
- Version: 2.02
- Features: Single colour, human vs computer
- Requires:
- Location: maja.zems.etf.hr
- Archive: pub/tools/games/xfil-2.02.tar.gz
- Status: stable
- Updated: 22nd March 1994
-
-
- X Block Out
- ===========
-
- This is a version of 3D tetris with a twist as the view is from the top looking
- down onto the blocks. You can rotate and twist the blocks until they are in a
- position to drop them. The user interface is very good and the game is hard!!
-
- Title: xbl
- Authors: Thierry EXCOFFIER
- email: exco@ligia.univ-lyon1.fr
- Version: 1.0
- Features: 3D, Colour, sound, interface, multilevel, demo mode
- Requires:
- Location: ftp710.univ-lyon1.fr
- Archive: /pub/xbl/xbl-1.0.tar.Z
- Status: great, more to come
- Updated: 6th June 1994
-
-
- *************************** new 23rd June 1994
-
- Abalone
- =======
-
- A board game that can have either human or computer players. It hasn't any
- instructions so I have no idea how to play.
-
- Title: Abalone
- Authors: Arno Glim & Jan Langenberg
- email: unknown!
- Version: unknown!
- Features: colour, computer players
- Requires: C++, openwindows
- Location: ftp.inria.fr
- Archive: /X/contrib-R5/games/Abalone.tar.Z
- Status: needs more documentation!
- Updated: 23rd June 1994
-
-
- Othello
- =======
-
- Othello is played on an 8 x 8 board, with pieces which are black on one side
- and white on the other. A legal move consists of placing a piece of one's own
- color on the board so as to "sandwich" a row (orthogonal or diagonal) of
- pieces of the opposite color between the piece just placed and another piece
- of the same color. All pieces so sandwiched are flipped over to reveal the
- color of the other side.
-
- Title: othello
- Authors: Rich Burridge & Co.
- email: richb@sunaus.sun.oz
- Version: 1.3
- Features: runs under SunView, XView, X11 and for dumb tty terminals
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.inria.fr
- Archive: /X/contrib-R5/games/othello.tar.Z
- Status: stable
- Updated: 23rd June 1994
-
-
-
- Pig
- ===
-
- Pig is a card game similar to Hearts, derived from Chinese card game Gong3Zhu1
- (pig-driving). It allows four players at different locations to play a card
- game simultaneously. The game is started by one player who has the xhost
- access permissions guaranteed by other players. During the game, players
- can communicate among themselves using a simple talk window. Conversations
- between two players are open to others.
-
- Title: pig
- Authors: Yanan Yin
- email: unknown
- Version: 3.0
- Features: talk mode, multi-player, colour
- Requires: X11R4 or greater
- Location: ftp.inria.fr
- Archive: /X/contrib-R5/games/pig.tar.Z
- Status: works
- Updated: 23rd June 1994
-
-
- Core War
- ========
-
- Not really sure how or what this thing is!!
-
- Title: cw
- Authors: Jon Blow
- email: blojo@soda.berkeley.edu
- Version: unknown
- Features: ?
- Requires: ?
- Location: ftp.inria.fr
- Archive: /X/contrib-R5/games/corewar.tar.Z
- Status: unknown
- Updated: 23rd June 1994
-
-
-
- Plumbing
- ========
-
- Plumbing is an X implementation of the game Pipe Dreams, which was
- created by Lucasfilm and is distributed by Electronic Arts for Amigas
- and probably other personal computers. If you own a personal
- computer, I urge you to go out and buy Pipe Dreams; it's a much better
- game than Plumbing.
-
- Title: plumbing
- Authors: Terry Weissman
- email: weissman@wsl.dec.com
- Version: unknown
- Features:
- Requires: C++, X11R4
- Location: ftp.inria.fr
- Archive: /X/contrib-R5/games/plumbing.tar.Z
- Status:
- Updated: 23rd June 1994
-
-
- Jetpack
- =======
-
- Jetpack is an arcade action game. The user controls a player wearing a jetpack.
- The game takes place within a series of levels that each consist of a maze ,
- fuel pods, a door, and a key. The player must travel through the maze to find
- the key and bring it back to the door to exit to the next level. There is a
- bonus for each level that is decre- mented as time goes on. It is awarded when
- the player sucessfully exits the level.
-
- Title: jetpack
- Authors: Mark Bradley
- email: meb2@cec2.wustl.edu
- Version: unknown
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.inria.fr
- Archive: /X/contrib-R5/games/jetpack.tar.Z
- Status: unknown
- Updated: 23rd June 1994
-
-
- Sea Haven
- =========
-
- Seahaven is an X implementation of a solitaire game some times known as
- Seahaven Towers, which I originally saw as a shareware game for the Macintosh.
- Seahaven is a fairly blatent rip-off of that game.
-
- Title: seahaven
- Authors: Terry Weissman
- email: weissman@sgi.com
- Version: unknown
- Features: auto play
- Requires: C++
- Location: ftp.inria.fr
- Archive: /X/contrib-R5/games/seahaven.tar.Z
- Status: didn't compile for me.
- Updated: 23rd June 1994
-
-
- Engarde
- =======
-
- To have 4 pieces in a row, column, diagonal that are all of one player's
- color, that player is to be considered the winner.
-
- Title: engarde
- Authors: Bill James
- email: wjames@jupiter.saic.com
- Version: 1.0
- Features: Colour, nice interface
- Requires: Motif
- Location: ftp.inria.fr
- Archive: /X/contrib-R5/games/engarde.tar.Z
- Status: compiled well.
- Updated: 23rd June 1994
-
-
- Space
- =====
-
- Space is a multiplayer, real time, space warfare game where each player may
- be located on a different machine and the display on the screen is a view out
- of the front of the player's ship into a 3 dimensional world.
-
- Each player controls his or her own spaceship using either a standard CRT
- terminal or an X11 interface with mouse. All players are placed in the same
- galaxy and fight to build and extend their empire via conquering planets and
- other players.
-
- Title: space
- Authors: Richard Johnson
- email: raj@ncgia.ucsb.edu
- Version: 1.2
- Features: multi-player
- Requires: galatic coordinator - didn't work for me
- Location: ftp.inria.fr
- Archive: /X/contrib-R5/games/space.tar.Z
- Status: compiled well.
- Updated: 23rd June 1994
-
-
-
-
- DStar
- =====
-
- "dstar" is a multi-player network 3-d video game. In dstar, you are
- the pilot of a spaceship armed with lasers and missiles. You have the
- pilot's-eye view out of the spaceship's front window. Other people
- playing the game on their workstations are playing in the same "space"
- as you are. Everybody sees everybody else in the game. You fly up to
- other spaceships and shoot them with your laser or launch rockets at
- them. Obviously, they want to do the same to you.
-
- Title: dstar
- Authors: Ed Falk
- email: falk@sun.com
- Version: 1.1
- Features: 3D, violence, multi-player
- Requires: XGL library
- Location: ftp.inria.fr
- Archive: /X/contrib-R5/games/dstar.tar.Z
- Status:
- Updated: 23rd June 1994
-
-
- XTron
- =====
-
- This is an X-version of the well known light-race of the TRON-film.
- You can jump tracks and other things as well.
-
- Title: xtron
- Authors: Helmut Hoenig
- email: hoenig@informatik.uni-kl.de, lynx@dm.unirm1.it
- Version: unknown
- Features: multi-player
- Requires: sockets
- Location: ftp.inria.fr
- Archive: /X/contrib-R5/games/xTron_o0.1.t.Z
- Status: not bad - bit fiddly to setup
- Updated: 23rd June 1994
-
-
- X Gosh
- ======
-
- xgosh is a quick and easy game of Go. It allows two people to play a
- game of Go easily over the network. It uses the X Windows' feature of
- opening two displays (One for each player.)
-
- Title: xgosh
- Authors: Scott W. Hassan, Eric Osman, Namhoon Yo
- email: hassan@informatics.wustl.edu
- Version: 1.7
- Features: colour, multi-player
- Requires: multi-player
- Location: ftp.inria.fr
- Archive: /X/contrib-R5/games/xgosh-1.7.shar.Z
- Status: good.
- Updated: 23rd June 1994
-
-
- XFred
- =====
-
- It's a Pac-Man-like game for X11.
-
- Title: xfred
- Authors: John L. Cwikla
- email: cwikla@wri.com
- Version: ?
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.x.org
- Archive: /contrib/games/xfred.tar.Z
- Status:
- Updated: 5th August 1994
-
- spare
- =====
-
- Title:
- Authors:
- email:
- Version:
- Features:
- Requires:
- Location: ftp.inria.fr
- Archive: /X/contrib-R5/games/
- Status:
- Updated: 23rd June 1994
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Frequently Asked Questions
- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
-
- - How do I get these games?
-
- All games mentioned in this list are available via anonymous ftp from various
- sites around the world. All you need is an InterNet connection and ftp.
-
- ftp to the site name "ftp ftp.x.org" and then use "anonymous" as your user
- name. Then when ftp asks for a password use your email address to be polite.
-
- Now change to the directory where the game is located. To do this type
- "cd <dir>" which will change directories. "ls" or "dir" will list directories
- and files.
-
- Then set the mode to binary "bin" (as most game sources are tarred and
- compressed), and then get <game_name> which will retreive it for you.
- This may take some time so be patient.
-
- Now to finish your session please type "quit" and you will be disconnected.
-
-
- - Are these games free?
-
- Most games are free. You should first check the COPYRIGHT or README docos to
- see if this is so. Most games on ftp.x.org are free to use but be sure you
- don't break the copyright by selling them etc.
-
-
- - How to a compile the games?
-
- First read any documents called README and/or INSTALL. Most games will come
- with an Imakefile which makes life easier? If not then you have to play around
- with the normal makefiles etc.
-
- With Imakefiles you simply check them out and see if all is in order for your
- system ie: gcc/cc etc and then type xmkmf, then make. Hopefully it will
- compile and a lovely game will be waiting for you.
-
-
- - How do I submit a game?
-
- I am not sure about this officially. I submitted xboing buy firstly tarring
- and compressing my archive after testing it compiles! Then I ftped to ftp.x.org
- and placed it in /contrib/games with a descriptive filename like xgame1.5.tar.Z
-
-
- - How do I unpack the game?
-
- General rule of thumb.
-
- *.gz = GNU Zipped file. Use gunzip to uncompress.
- *.tar = A UNIX Tar file. use tar to unbundle.
- *.Z = A UNIX Compressed file. Use uncompress to uncompress it.
- *.shar = A shell archive file. Use sh to unpack file.
- *.z = Possible an old gzip archive or a pack archive. Use unpack.
-
- Please note that some games may use a combination of the above distribution
- methods. The most common would be *.tar.Z or *.tar.gz
-
- With tar it is a good idea to check it out first before undoing it as it may
- not have been tarred into a directory for you. tar -vft <file> will list the
- tar files contents.
-
- eg: xgame1.5.tar.Z
-
- 1. uncompress xgame1.5.tar.Z = uncompress the archive.
- 2. tar vft xgame1.5.tar = check if it is in a directory.
- 3. tar xvfo xgame1.5.tar = unpack it all into current directory or make one.
- 4. make the game.
-
- eg: xgame1.5.tar.gz
-
- 1. gunzip xgame1.5.tar.gz = gnu unzip the tar archive.
- 2. repeat 2, 3, 4 above.
-
-
- - Who do I ask for help when compiling a game?
-
- Check out the README file or manual page and see if it is stated where bug
- reports should be sent. If no specific email address is given then try the
- author(s) email address.
-
- Try to gain help from others in your workplace or university etc. You may
- be suprised how skillful others are at collecting and compiling games!
-
- If all else fails then post to comp.windows.x.apps as a last resort.
-
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- Message to Game Writers
- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
-
- These are only suggestions and I am not an authority on how things should
- be done.
-
- Firstly, ALWAYS include your email and name somewhere so people can find out
- who wrote the game. It is also helpful if you have a version number like 1.0
- or 2.8 etc.
-
- If you can and want to it is a good idea to place your game on the main
- X Window System software archive maintained by the X Consortium. This site
- is called ftp.x.org (formally export.lcs.mit.edu). All X related software
- can be found in the /contrib/games directory.
-
- Please include a "gamename.README" with your game in the directory so people
- can check out what the game is and how to compile it etc. before they get it.
-
- Also make sure that you tar an archive with a root directory so that people
- can untar it into that directory and not all over other files.
-
- ie: tar cvf game.tar source/* <- this will create a directory when untarring.
-
- Also make sure you have a manual entry or help file of some kind. My first
- version of my game was man-page less and I received quite a few email
- questions. After I cleaned up my documentation my mail slowed down a bit. Hint.
-
- If you can work out Imakefiles then please use them. I know they can be a
- headache but they are worth it in the end.
-
- You may want to grab the checktree program from the X Consortium that allows
- you to check your distribution files to see if they conform to some standards.
-
-
-
- Thanks
- ======
-
- Thanks to quinet@montefiore.ulg.ac.be (Raphael Quinet) for some ideas.
- All those who have sent additions or patches etc.
-
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT,
- SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF
- THIS DOCUMENTATION, EVEN IF THE AUTHOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
- OF SUCH DAMAGE.
-
- THE AUTHOR SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
- TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
- PURPOSE. THE DOCUMENTATION PROVIDED HEREUNDER IS ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, AND
- THE AUTHOR HAS NO OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE, SUPPORT, UPDATES,
- ENHANCEMENTS, OR MODIFICATIONS.
-
- ,,,
- (. .)
- /===============================================================oo0=\_/=0oo=\
- |Justin Kibell - Systems Programmer - CATT Grp. CITRI - Vol. VICSES Rescuer |
- | email: jck@citri.edu.au Ph: +61 3 282 2456 PO. Box 285 Eltham 3095 Aus. |
- \===========================================================================/
-