[comp.sys.hp] xtank available for HP 9000 Series 400

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.
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