mat60@uts.amdahl.com (Mark Thomas) (05/31/89)
could some one tell me where I can find a copy of xtank program?
I heard about it on the net about 4-5 months ago. An ftp
address would be nice. Oh, and the file name.
Thanks
Mark T.
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[ herein are my own. They are not necessarily those of my employer. ]wlm@archet.UUCP (William L. Moran Jr.) (10/09/89)
I am looking for the sources to xtank. I have a copy of the RT binary, but there are two problems with it: it doesn't work over the network, and it dies after some amount of time spent playing. The version I have is 1.0. The mail address at MIT doesn't reply. Does anyone out there have either the sources, or a copy of the RT binary which does not have these problems? Thanks. Bill Moran -- arpa: moran-william@cs.yale.edu or wlm@ibm.com uucp: uunet!bywater!acheron!archet!wlm or decvax!yale!moran-william ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ``There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die, and we will conquer. Follow me.'' - General Barnard E. Bee (CSA)
wlm@arnor.UUCP (10/25/89)
Terry Donahue has graciously allowed distribution of Xtank sources. The sources are sitting on expo in contrib. Just a minor plug - Xtank is a GREAT multi-player X11 based video game. Try it, and you'll never go back to xtrek ... you may also never get anything else done:) Bill Moran --- moran-william@cs.yale.edu or wlm@ibm.com or uunet!bywater!acheron!archet!wlm Stories or tortures used by debauchers, lurid, licentious and vile ... make me smile :) T. Lehrer
rusty@garnet.berkeley.edu (10/25/89)
The documentation for xtank was done in latex and not everyone has that. As soon as I can generate reasonable versions I'll upload a tar file of the Postscript of the xtank documentation onto expo.lcs.mit.edu in the contrib directory. -- -------------------------------------- rusty c. wright rusty@violet.berkeley.edu ucbvax!violet!rusty
dl2n+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Daniel Edward Lovinger) (10/25/89)
> Excerpts from internet.xpert: 24-Oct-89 Xtank wlm@uunet.uu.net (470) > Terry Donahue has graciously allowed distribution of Xtank sources. The > sources are sitting on expo in contrib. Just a minor plug - Xtank is a > GREAT multi-player X11 based video game. Try it, and you'll never go > back to xtrek ... you may also never get anything else done:) Just wait for Xtrek 5.4 coming out on the R4 tape. Development is just about done ... it's Real Nice (differentiated ships, bugfixes, etc. like you would not believe :). Should be showing up in the contrib directory in a few days. dan and the xtrek folks
jb7m+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jon C. R. Bennett) (10/25/89)
wlm@arnor.UUCP writes: > Terry Donahue has graciously allowed distribution of Xtank sources. > The sources are sitting on expo in contrib. Just a minor plug - Xtank > is a GREAT multi-player X11 based video game. Try it, and you'll never > go back to xtrek ... you may also never get anything else done:) > > Bill Moran Not to rain on Xtank's parade but.... Just a major plug - Xtrek v5.4, a joint effort of CMU and UBC will be out for the r4 tape. v5.4 is everything you ever wanted in xtrek and more. There are almost no known bugs, it now supports configuration files, and is in general a much, much, much better game than the currently released version. If there are people who just can't wait for the r4 tape you can send me some mail and I will see about making it ftp-able. Jon C. R. Bennett Operations System Programmer CMU Computer Science jcrb@cs.cmu.edu #include <disclaimers/std.h> p.s. Xtrek contains no assembly code, the same can not be said of Xtank.
brtmac@hobbes.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) (10/25/89)
In article <sZFHG5q00VRSI2L0sS@andrew.cmu.edu> dl2n+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Daniel Edward Lovinger) writes: >> Excerpts from internet.xpert: 24-Oct-89 Xtank wlm@uunet.uu.net (470) > >> Terry Donahue has graciously allowed distribution of Xtank sources. The >> sources are sitting on expo in contrib. Just a minor plug - Xtank is a >> GREAT multi-player X11 based video game. Try it, and you'll never go >> back to xtrek ... you may also never get anything else done:) > > > Just wait for Xtrek 5.4 coming out on the R4 tape. Development is just >about done ... it's Real Nice (differentiated ships, bugfixes, etc. like >you would not believe :). Should be showing up in the contrib directory >in a few days. For those of you who are Xtrek fans, you might want to try Berkely's NetrekII. It is an implementation of XtrekII for X11 and includes all kinds of nice things such as different classes of ships and ranking of players. It is available from scam.berkeley.edu in the file ipctrek.tar.Z. It takes a little work to make it run on a Sun 3/60 workstation, but if there is any interest I can mail or post my fixes for it. It really does work nice. -- Brett McCoy | God is real, unless declared integer brtmac@ksuvm.ksu.edu | bmc@phobos.cis.ksu.edu | If you don't get caught, brtmac@hobbes.ksu.ksu.edu | did you really do it?
bob@inmos.co.uk (Bob Green) (10/26/89)
In article <423@arnor.UUCP> wlm@arnor.UUCP () writes: >Terry Donahue has graciously allowed distribution of Xtank sources. >The sources are sitting on expo in contrib. Just a minor plug - Xtank >is a GREAT multi-player X11 based video game. Try it, and you'll never >go back to xtrek ... you may also never get anything else done:) > > Bill Moran Is anyone willing to mail me the sources, or are they available by any means other than ftp ? Thanks Bob. -- Bob Green Inmos Ltd, Bristol | EMail(UK) ukc!inmos!bob ---------------------------------------| or bob@inmos.co.uk The opinions above are my personal | Internet: bob@inmos.com views and do not refelect Inmos policy.| UUCP:(US) uunet!inmos.com!bob
bill@wpi.wpi.edu (Bill Marrs) (10/27/89)
>In article <423@arnor.UUCP> wlm@arnor.UUCP () writes: >Terry Donahue has graciously allowed distribution of Xtank sources. >The sources are sitting on expo in contrib. Just a minor plug - Xtank >is a GREAT multi-player X11 based video game. Try it, and you'll never >go back to xtrek ... you may also never get anything else done:) > > Bill Moran Where is this available? -bill
spock@bnrmtl.UUCP (Richard Young) (10/28/89)
With all the hype about Xtank on the net this week, I thought I would give it a try... Has anybody made the mods needed to run on a Sun 3/60? Richard Young Bell Northern Research bnrmtl!spock@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu "Vulcans never bluff"
naughton@wind.Sun.COM (Patrick Naughton) (10/31/89)
Has anyone worked out all of the problems running Xtank on Suns? Has the
multi-thread package been ported, or does the RT version work? I spent
ten minutes and found the problems with strcpy()/getenv() and not
setting the window manager input hints, and several other problems, so I
thought I'd check to see if anyone else has done the work already.
-Patrick
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Sun Microsystems, Inc. AT&T: (415) 336 - 1080Anselmo-Ed@cs.yale.edu (Ed Anselmo) (10/31/89)
>>>>> On 30 Oct 89 17:45:08 GMT, naughton@wind.Sun.COM (Patrick Naughton) said:
Patrick> Has anyone worked out all of the problems running Xtank on
Patrick> Suns? Has the multi-thread package been ported, or does the
Patrick> RT version work? I spent ten minutes and found the problems
Patrick> with strcpy()/getenv() and not setting the window manager
Patrick> input hints, and several other problems, so I thought I'd
Patrick> check to see if anyone else has done the work already.
The RT version works (although we didn't compile it, we just used the included
executable image). And as promised it's neato keen cool. Didn't try the VAX
version.
On a Sun 4/60 I've gotten past the same problems you mention (initializing the
environment, reading the motd file and instructions) and gotten the Sun version
to the point where it puts up the window before the SEGV hits. Sometimes you
can even move the tank before it seg faults. Needless to say, I don't know
if the multi-thread package works.
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Ed Anselmo anselmo-ed@cs.yale.edu {harvard,decvax}!yale!anselmo-edrapatel@pilot.njin.net ( Rakesh Patel) (10/31/89)
I've essentially fixed the same bugs everyone else has. However, I have not fixed the threads code to run on a Sun. Everything else seems to be fine though. Anyone gotten around to fixing that code??? Rakesh Patel.
kek@DINORAH.WUSTL.EDU (10/31/89)
I'd love it if you guys and gals would move Xtank discussions to *.games* and let us get to the meat of X. If your comments and questions are of general usefulness to X programming, great but otherwise, please use the other means to your pleasures. Tanks a lot;-) ken
tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) (11/01/89)
In article <127042@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> naughton@sun.com (Patrick Naughton) writes: > >Has anyone worked out all of the problems running Xtank on Suns? Has the >multi-thread package been ported, or does the RT version work? I spent This must be the first time I come across a program that is easier to port to the HP9000 Series 800 (the HP Precision Architecture RISC machines) than to Suns.... Usually all interesting free software is developed on Suns or VAXen, and there is some effort needed to port it to to the hp9000s800. After staring at the thread library source for maybe an hour I got enlightened and understood how it was supposed to work (I think). After that it was easy to get Xtank running. The dynamic loading code had to be rewritten of course, but luckily I had saved some articles from comp.sys.hp discussing dynamic loading. The xtank source compiled without any warnings, really amazing. A good job, congratulations to the author! Now if I only could find out where it gets all these math errors (DOMAIN error, TLOSS error). And usually it dies with a floating exception after running OK for perhaps ten minutes. The code seems to use trigonometric functions rather heavily, I think I will profile it and maybe use tables instead. I will send the hp9000s800 diffs to the author in a few days, and put them up for ftp here. -- Tor Lillqvist, VTT/ATK
garyc@quasi.tek.com (Gary Combs;685-2072;61-236;;orca) (11/06/89)
The DOMAIN error is because the program passes x=0 and y=0 to atan2. Just check for x=y=0 and return 0. Works for me.
gilley@ndl.COM (Greg Gilley) (11/15/89)
Has anyone successfully ported xtank to a Sun3/4? Greg ------------------------------------------------------- Greg Gilley gilley@ndl.COM [Numerical Design Limited] 919-929-2917 (voice)
hwn@iesd.auc.dk (Henrik Winther Nielsen) (04/12/90)
Has anyone ported Xtank to Digital Decstations ? If so please reply, i'm interested in a copy or an address where to find it. Thanks. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Henrik Winther Nielsen Mail: hwn@iesd.auc.dk | | _ / | | Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - / ( | | University of Aalborg (AUC) / | \ | | DENMARK A U C | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
vaisey@fornax.UUCP (Jacques Vaisey) (10/20/90)
Could someone please tell me of an ftp site for xtank. Thanks Jacques Vaisey -> vaisey@cs.sfu.ca
Sticks@cup.portal.com (Erich Belgarion Proudfit) (03/24/91)
I have a version of Xtank from a Sun station. I've re-compiled it on a Data General DG/UX workstation. It compiles correctly, but when I run the program and try and enter the game, I get atan2: DOMAIN error Does anyone know how I can get this error fixed? Erich
stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne) (04/03/91)
In article <40517@cup.portal.com>, Sticks@cup.portal.com (Erich Belgarion Proudfit) writes: > I have a version of Xtank from a Sun station. I've re-compiled it on a Data > General DG/UX workstation. It compiles correctly, but when I run the program > and try and enter the game, I get > atan2: DOMAIN error > Does anyone know how I can get this error fixed? What version of xtank? Try editing sysdep.h, and looking for lines like this #if... /* Avoid domain errors when both x and y are 0 */ #define ATAN2(Y,X) ((X)==0 && (Y)==0 ? 0.0 : atan2((double)Y, (double)X)) #else #define ATAN2(Y,X) atan2((double)Y, (double)X) #endif And chage the #if... line to: #if defined(sun) || defined(hpux) || defined(apollo) || defined(mips) -- stripes@eng.umd.edu "Security for Unix is like Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The Multitasking for MS-DOS" "The dyslexic porgramer" - Kevin Lockwood "CNN is the only nuclear capable news network..." - lbruck@eng.umd.edu (Lewis Bruck)