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From: scotts@sham.uucp (Scott Silvey)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xtrek problem
Summary: run both xtreks on one machine
Keywords: xtrek
Message-ID: <6999@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 1 Nov 88 02:10:03 GMT
References: <8810171520.AA28417@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
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Reply-To: scotts@scam.UUCP (Scott Silvey)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Xtrek actually composed of 3 programs ... a full game can
  have 17 to 21 different processes all on the same machine.
  Run 'xtrek' on the faster machine.  This will start the 
  daemon.  Then run 'xtrek machine2_name:0' to get an xtrek
  running with i/o going to and from the second machine 
  (make sure you have xhosted the daemon machine from the
  second one).  This way all the processes can coordinate
  with the same block of shared memory.

Incidentally, v4.0 is VERY old.  There are several new versions
  running here at Cal 'XtrekII, The Next Generation', and 'xtrek v5.0'.
  They mainly sport various ship types along with new weapons,
  starbases, and scoring systems that keep track of your performance
  in various categories.  An attemp was made at having custom
  ship design, but this worked out poorly and actually detracted 
  from the fun.  XtrekII also has a super-user ship in the form
  of the AT&T 'Death Star' logo.  Sort of an insider here where
  we are fans of BSD.

A major re-write will be made in the near future that will be
  independent of the windowing interface.  In fact, we will 
  encourage players to write their own custom interfaces.  Hence,
  the game will no longer be called 'Xtrek'.  Here at Cal we have
  little problem with CPU power ... our main clinch is network
  traffic which makes the game quite frustrating.  We intend
  to restructure the game so that the client actually does some
  of the processing and the information that will have to travel
  back and forth will be minimized.

Scott Silvey
scotts@scam.berkeley.edu