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GAME: Netrek for OS/2 (freeware)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chun Hsu)
Thu Apr 17 13:27:24 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 17 Apr 1997 16:17:23 GMT
From: hsuc@enteract.com (Chun Hsu)
Reply-To: hsuc@enteract.com
Reply-to: hsuc@enteract.com
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I have ported/compiled an OS/2 version of the Netrek game. It is now
available at:
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/unix/games/netrek10.zip (eventually)
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/netrek10.zip (temporarily)
ftp://ftp.enteract.com/users/hsuc/netrek10.zip (temporarily)
Introduction
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Netrek is a graphical X-windows game with up to 16 players playing
simultaneously on either of two teams. The game is played in a space
environment with each team "owning" several planets. The goal of the
game is to take over the other teams planets by killing other players and
dropping armies on the opponents planets.
The game has fairly simple graphics (not Pong-like, mind you, but it's not
Quake either). However, the ability to play in real-time with so many
other people results in some pretty serious team strategy. If you get
bored or decide to be a jerk, it can be pretty fun to just mill around and
blow up your enemies as well.
Requirements
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- EMX 0.9c or higher
- XFree86 3.2 (resolution of 1024x768 or better)
- OS/2 Warp 4.0
Since this is my first attempt at distributing a netrek client for OS/2, I
can't say for sure if it will work on anyone else's machine. It seems to
work on mine. Also, the requirements above indicate the software that I
have installed on my box. It may or may not work if you don't have those
versions of OS/2, XFree, and EMX. Note that this Netrek client works best
at a resolution of 1024x768 or better.
Both EMX and XFree86 are available at your favorite OS/2 FTP sites
including hobbes.nmsu.edu, wuarchive.wustl.edu, and ftp.cdrom.com.
Further Info
============
The Netrek newsgroup.
rec.games.netrek
Fairly outdated, but lots of information:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/jch/netrek/README.html
Netrek FAQ in HTML
http://shell3.ba.best.com/~doosh/netrek/netrekFAQ.html
Home page for one of the Netrek servers
http://continuum.real-time.com/
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Chun Hsu
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