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From: jeff@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Skippy The Wonder Hacker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xtrek coming for X11R2.
Message-ID: <3510@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 30 Aug 88 23:35:17 GMT
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Reply-To: jeff@polyslo.UUCP (Skippy The Wonder Hacker)
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I have XTrek for X11.  I did the port that was running at Usenix and
Xhibition.  I am running beta test right now, and plan to release it
within a week.  I am sending it to the MIT X Consortium for inclusion
on the X11R3 contrib tape.  I will also be making it available for
anonymous ftp and will send it to comp.sources.x.

It has some enhancements over Guthrie's XTrek Version 4, these include:

	1) I have made some attempts to optimize screen redraw.
	   My initial port could not run on a Sun 3/50 because of the
	   non-optimized X server.  It runs ok on the 50's now.
	   Forget about color on Sun's now though, the server is
	   just too slow.  Works great on color RT's and HP 9000's
	   though.

	2) You can now configure your ships by reducing some 
	   attribute and increasing others.  For example, you could
	   have a ship with no phasers, but bigger torps, of course
	   those bigger torps take more fuel...

	3) Added patterns to planets on the mono screen so that
	   people without color are not at such a disadvantage.

	4) Made shields change color or pattern as you take more
	   damage.  This helps when you are in the heat of battle
	   and don't want to pay attention to the status display.

One major thing that is not in this version, but that I want to add later,
is to make it a distributed game using rpc, so that all the programs don't
have to run on the same machine.  I would also like to work on the robots
a bit.

Note to Jef:  I have fixed some old bugs.  If you know of any I should
look at please let me know ASAP.

	--Jeff Weinstein
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