Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!reed!ameiba From: ameiba@reed.edu Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs Subject: Re: xconq, xconq, who's got the xconq (a return to thread...) Summary: paul.rutgers.edu has the xconq Keywords: xconq Message-ID: Date: 17 Jun 91 06:30:03 GMT References: <1991Jun14.180620.719@cs.columbia.edu> Sender: nobody@reed.UUCP Reply-To: ameiba@reed.edu (Keith Steiger) Distribution: usa Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR (where AT&T mangled our network) Lines: 25 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...."