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XBill 1.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sun Apr 16 13:18:54 1995
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 19:06:09 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: Brian Wellington <bwelling@defenestration.dorm.umd.edu>
Subject: XBill 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Keywords: X11, game
Organization: ?
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.x
XBill is a game for X, developed on Linux, vaguely similar to
whack-a-mole, but with a more interesting theme. From the README:
The little people running around the screen are trying to infect your
computers with Wingdows [TM], a virus cleverly designed to resemble a
popular operating system. Your objective is to click the mouse on them,
ending their potential threat. If one of the people reaches a computer,
it will turn it off and, after a short while, replace your operating system
with the virus it carries. It will then attempt to run off the screen with
your vital software.
Clicking the button on one of the little people will cause it to cry out in
pain and disappear (id software eat your heart out!), and drop the stolen os
if it is carrying one. If a computer is running Wingdows or is temporarily
off, the os can be dragged back to the computer (or another computer
originally running the same os).
XBill requires Motif and libXpm to compile, but statically linked Motif
binaries are available.
Here's the LSM:
Begin3
Title: XBill game for X/Motif
Version: 1.0
Entered-date: 4/9/95
Description: Try to kill the evil computer hackers before they can infect
your computers with a terrible virus. More fun than it
sounds.
Keywords: xbill wingdows game
Author: bwelling@eng.umd.edu (Brian Wellington)
matias@eng.umd.edu (Matias Duarte)
Maintained-by: bwelling@eng.umd.edu (Brian Wellington)
Primary-site: defenestration.dorm.umd.edu /pub/xbill
43k xbill-1.0.tar.gz
550k xbill-1.0.static.tar.gz
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/games/x11/action
Original-site:
Platform: libXpm, Motif required to compile (can get static binaries)
Copying-policy: GPL
End
So, get XBill today, and enjoy. And while you're at it, mail the authors
so they know someone's playing it.
Brian
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