rocky@polyof.poly.edu (A1 rocky shiotsuki (staff) ) (12/17/90)
Hi everyone, Do you know about xtank? I'm very new to xtank, so I can't able to describe a detail, but I try my best. It is very impressive true interactive fully graphical game, or war simulation for Xwindow environment. This program is developed by Terry Donhue in Oct. 1987. Since then, Terry and his friends modify and updated it. Inside of xtank, there are many new programming technique, such as running many processes simultaneously, but not using fork() function, and handle multiple Xservers, display, keyboard and mouse, simultaneously. You will get know more when you read a document for xtank. Right now, xtank's source code size is about 2.2 Mega bytes, and compressed one is 891561 bytes (after I modified it). Right now, as I know, xtank only works for SUN workstation, HP 9000 Series 800, APOLLO (I'm not sure), and Amiga. But I got chance to work with HP 9000 Series 400, so I modified xtank spend some time in 4 days (between full time work), some how it is working partially. So here is unofficial release xtank for HP9000 Series 400. I sent e-mail and modified version of xtank to stripes@eng.umd.edu. xtank available from: ftp.eng.umd.edu xtank1.2f.tar.Z ; official version, but ; does not work with ; hp9000s400 puscs.poly.edu xtank1.2fb.tar.Z ; unofficital version ; for hp9000s400 I hope we will have special news group for xtank. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Rocky Shiotsuki Internet: rocky@puscs.poly.edu Systems Programmer 128.238.5.8 Polytechnic University 333 Jay Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201