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From: ameiba@reed.edu
Subject: [games-bugs] Re: xconq, xconq, who's got the xconq (a return to thread...)
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.131708.27273@ox.com>
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Archive-name: games/multiplayer/xconq/1991-06-17
Archive-directory: paul.rutgers.edu:/pub/xconq/ [128.6.5.60]
Original-posting-by: ameiba@reed.edu
Original-subject: Re: xconq, xconq, who's got the xconq (a return to thread...)
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)


In article <1991Jun14.180620.719@cs.columbia.edu> eh@douglass.columbia.edu (Erik Hilsdale) writes:
>I just reread through this whole xconq thread, and I found that there's
>been no answer to the original question (which I didn't pose):

Well, I did pose the original question, and I got a multitude of answers....

>Where is xconq (not Conquer)?  Is there an FTP site I can glom it from?

The most modified version is at paul.rutgers.edu, 128.6.5.60, in /pub/xconq.
It doesn't allow as many computer players as some others, and one or two
commands are missing (like "wait until a transport shows up then board it",
which I liked), but it does allow simultaneous players, moving the center of
action doesn't cause pieces to disappear, and the computer player is NASTY.
Attempting to attack a computer player's island  with anything short of a
battleship, a nuclear bomb or a sneak attack is inadvisable.  And sneak
attacks don't occur very often.

So, to be blunt--I, the original question-asker, have decided to use the file
/pub/xconq/xc5.4.4-27-91.tar.Z from paul.rutgers.edu.  But I would dearly
love to beta-test xconq 5.5, which Stan Shebs (the original xconq god) has
announced the imminent release of.

	Keith Steiger
	ameiba@reed.edu
	"Now if only I could read news from my own machine again...."

-- comp.archives file verification
paul.rutgers.edu
total 620
-rw-r--r--  1 1191       602699 Apr 27 13:18 xc5.4.4-27-91.tar.Z
-rw-r--r--  1 1191        19850 Jan 19 15:25 diff-1-19-91.Z
found xconq ok
paul.rutgers.edu:/pub/xconq/