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Article #131Re: Xtrek
From: James "Oolon Colluphid" Hawtin
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 12:50
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 12:50
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Xtrek is a game based on startrek however thats where the similarity ends, it is a multiuser game that is played over a LAN running TCP/IP, with X displays for each player can have a various ship type which have different advantage/ disadvantages some are faster / or more armoured etc. The best why to find out is to play. The final think is that xtrek has been mostly replaced with netrek, a very similar game however this is played over internet and so in some respects is cut down however as you are playing with more people it is more tactile (I think so) if you would like help on how to start playing netrek (and are on internet) please mail me and I will forward information on how to play. Basically netrek is a client/server game so you need a client program (display) to run on your machine and have to know where to connect to to play, good news is there is a server in france, + many other s in europe (I play in the uk surprise!) Have fun James.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!news.cs.bham.ac.uk!percy!jwh From: jwh@cs.bham.ac.uk (James "Oolon Colluphid" Hawtin) Newsgroups: alt.games.xtrek Subject: Re: Xtrek Message-ID: <1992Nov12.125042@cs.bham.ac.uk> Date: 12 Nov 92 12:50:42 GMT References: <1992Nov11.33914.6737@ms.uky.edu> Sender: news@cs.bham.ac.uk Organization: School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, UK Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: mother