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From: peter@hari.VIEWlogic.com (Peter Colby)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: xconq 5.3 - missing the right map files?
Message-ID: <1990Aug14.202517.12939@viewlogic.com>
Date: 14 Aug 90 20:25:17 GMT
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In article <15329@reed.UUCP>, minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson
Minar,L08,x640,7776519) writes:
|> In article <TALVOLA.90Aug7120259@janus.Berkeley.EDU>
talvola@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Erik Talvola) writes:
|> >
|> >   In src/games on scam.berkeley.edu, there is a version of Xconq,
|> >xconq5.3.tar.Z, which runs fine under X11.  Have fun!
|> 
|> That's well and good, but there are some problems with that distribution:
|> 
|> the man directory is missing. No documentation! :(
|> 
|> xconq 5.3 changed the format of the .map files.  However, this distribution
|> of xconq still has the old map files, which consequently do not work.
|> (there's also a weird tar file in the distribution called xconq5.3 which
|>  seems to be maps, but they are merely copies of the old ones. Its a
|>  broken tar, too)
|> 
|> Does anyone have a complete, working distribution of xconq 5.3?
|> 
|> For those of you who are taking notes, we have a few nifty patches to xconq
|> that aren't quite done yet. 5.3 seems to have a bug that won't let you click
|> on icons to choose the production for a city, which we fixed. We've also
|> changed it so that units that are being carried cannot produce other units
|> (like loading an infantry onto a bomber, have it start producing a
base, send
|> the bomber off, and land on the base your infantry is building..) And, there
|> is something in xconq 5.3 that prevents units from attacking each other if
|> their chance is less than 10%. Why this is, I do not know, but we've changed
|> it back..

Does this mean you have the source to xconq5.3?

I have been unable to ftp a complete copy from scam.berkeley.edu. It gets about
halfway and dies. However, perusing the half that I can get, I noticed that
it seems to include the complete library followed by a 400K file called
xconq5.3... This doesn't sound like source to me.

I had also heard rumors that a copy was to be found at Stan Shebs old school
(cs.utah.edu) but I couldn't find anything there either.

Suffice it to say, I would sell my .... for a good ftpable source copy of
xconq 5.3 or later!!!

By the way, I did ftp the modified maps from Denmark and they look OK (insofar
as I don't know what the new format is supposed to be like.

        PeterC
        peter@viewlogic.com

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