ameiba@reed.edu (06/20/91)
Archive-name: games/multiplayer/xconq/1991-06-17 Archive-directory: paul.rutgers.edu:/pub/xconq/ [128.6.5.60] Original-posting-by: ameiba@reed.edu Original-subject: Re: xconq, xconq, who's got the xconq (a return to thread...) Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) In article <1991Jun14.180620.719@cs.columbia.edu> eh@douglass.columbia.edu (Erik Hilsdale) writes: >I just reread through this whole xconq thread, and I found that there's >been no answer to the original question (which I didn't pose): Well, I did pose the original question, and I got a multitude of answers.... >Where is xconq (not Conquer)? Is there an FTP site I can glom it from? The most modified version is at paul.rutgers.edu, 128.6.5.60, in /pub/xconq. It doesn't allow as many computer players as some others, and one or two commands are missing (like "wait until a transport shows up then board it", which I liked), but it does allow simultaneous players, moving the center of action doesn't cause pieces to disappear, and the computer player is NASTY. Attempting to attack a computer player's island with anything short of a battleship, a nuclear bomb or a sneak attack is inadvisable. And sneak attacks don't occur very often. So, to be blunt--I, the original question-asker, have decided to use the file /pub/xconq/xc5.4.4-27-91.tar.Z from paul.rutgers.edu. But I would dearly love to beta-test xconq 5.5, which Stan Shebs (the original xconq god) has announced the imminent release of. Keith Steiger ameiba@reed.edu "Now if only I could read news from my own machine again...." -- comp.archives file verification paul.rutgers.edu total 620 -rw-r--r-- 1 1191 602699 Apr 27 13:18 xc5.4.4-27-91.tar.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 1191 19850 Jan 19 15:25 diff-1-19-91.Z found xconq ok paul.rutgers.edu:/pub/xconq/