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- Short: Xconq5.5 : A port of the popular X11 strategy wargame Xconq
- Uploader: kjelli@stud.cs.uit.no
- Author: Stan Shebs(and others)/Terje Pedersen (Amiga part)
- Type: game/think
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- This is a 'no changes' port of XConq, an X-based strategy game.
- (Ok, a bug in the original source was fixed..).
-
- The original X11 program was made by:
- Stan Shebs (shebs@cs.utah.edu)
- Version 5.4 by Greg Fisher (fisher@cs.rutgers.edu)
- Version 5.5 by Robert Forsman (thoth@lightning.cis.ufl.edu)
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- from the manual page:
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- DESCRIPTION
- Xconq is a multi-player strategic wargame. Your goal is
- to save the world from the evil empires attempting to take
- over. You get cities, armies, airplanes, and ships with
- which to accomplish your task. Success is achieved by the
- neutralization or defeat of the other sides, by any means
- available. First you have to find them!
-
- Although the game can get complicated, to start you need
- only know about the help command '?', which is valid at
- any time. You start with only one city, which makes
- things even simpler. The city will automatically produce
- a military unit, which you will be prompted to move
- around. Eventually, you will get more and can attempt to
- take over other cities. The game keeps going until only
- one side is left in action; this player is then declared
- the winner.
-
- The program probably needs a bigger stack than the 50000 the program
- is asking for. Try 100000 to be on the safe side. You'll also
- need a big workbench 640x400 is probably a minimum. Also the program
- is 467000 bytes in size so 2mb is probably a minimum memory requirement.
-
- Start the game with 'xc -display Workbench' and some of the other
- options that are available. If running on with wb3.0+ libX11
- will use pensharing on the workbench and you'll need at least 16
- colors on the wb to have enough free colors. If you haven't wb3.0+
- or enough colors it will use the existing colors which may or
- may not look good! Color allocation also uses a text file with name
- and color pairs (rgb.txt) that has to be placed in libs:
-
- My account terjepe@stud.cs.uit.no will be deleted today (10-Mar-95)!
- I may be reachable on terjepe@engstad.ingok.hitos.no but its on
- an unreliable PC..(running linux), or you may try terjepe@hstud6.cs.uit.no
- if all else fails.
-
- Terje Pedersen
- Oterveien 55
- 9017 Tromsoe
- Norway
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