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From: rees@pisa.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Wanted: TANKS
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Date: 10 Oct 90 15:46:07 GMT
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In article <2122@amethyst.math.arizona.edu>, glen@zeus.uucp (Glen Sonnenberg) writes:
  In article <4d46f9bf.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> kumorek@apollo.HP.COM (James Kumorek) writes:
  >It's still around;  if you install the 'games' directory that comes with
  >bsd4.3, you'll get it.  Look in /usr/games/lib/tanks, and the man pages
  >'tanks' and 'tankd'.
  
  We have the game, or at least one that is similar to it that has been adapted
  for the X world.  We have had a lot of fun running it with our 10000, two 3500'sand two suns.  We have had a small problem of delayed response due to net
  traffic but it's never been that bad.  Overall, it's a fun game. 

If you're talking about "xtank," it's nothing like the NCS based tanks game.
The difference is the point-of-view.  Xtanks is a standard, boring ho-hum
"plan" point-of-view (as if you were looking down on the battlefield from
above).  NCS tanks is from the pilot's point-of-view, like the arcade
Battlezone game.  There's no comparison.