ifarqhar@sunb.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Ian Farquhar) (03/01/91)
Archive-name: x11/games/acm/1991-02-28 Archive: expo.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/acm.2.1.tar.Z [18.30.0.212] Original-posting-by: ifarqhar@sunb.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Ian Farquhar) Original-subject: Network Games (here's one) Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) Since this question was asked, I came across a nice little program called acm (which, from memory, stands for Air Combat Manager.) It runs under Unix (BSD, not sure about AT&T) and X11, and sets up a server daemon on a host machine that allows several players across a network to dogfight. I compiled and ran it on a Sun 4/20 running SunOS 4.1.1 and Open Windows 2.0. It is slightly jerky, but it works quite nicely. The source is available for anon ftp on suna.mqcc.mq.oz.au [137.111.161.1], in /pub/Sources/X/acm*. There are two versions, the initial unmodified version, and a Sun version on which I modified (read hacked because I don't have imake) the imake-produced makefiles so that it will compile under OpenWin. Enjoy. -- Ian Farquhar Phone : + 61 2 805-9400 Office of Computing Services Fax : + 61 2 805-7433 Macquarie University NSW 2109 Also : + 61 2 805-7420 Australia EMail : ifarqhar@suna.mqcc.mq.oz.au