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Article #146Re: THE TRUE MEANING
From: BOHUNK
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 00:15
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 00:15
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In article <1992Sep28.111944.942@donau.et.tudelft.nl> maarten@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (M. Hofman) writes: >I don't know much about xtrek, but I think I like the subject and I > refuse to go[...] So if anyone can give me information about xtrek, she/he's welcome. [...] >Maarten. > Ahhhhh, xtrek... I hacked that code to make it run on a vaxstation 3100, to run under decwindows. The true meaning of xtrek was to waste everything in the galaxy. This game was only marginally similar to the nettrek game. It was originally written for X10 display systems and later converted to the X11 protocal. The Game: You are the comander of your ship. (a little glyph that looked like one of the enterprize, bird of prey,or kingon war ship. You could be one of 4 races: terran, romulan, Kilngon, or Orion. Objective: Take over as many planets as you can. planets have defences, fuel and supplies. But beware -- there are other beings in the universe (both alive and computer controlled, that will try to take your presious planets away. --- Enough of that.... the source used to be on expo, and I think it is still in the archives at uunet (don't quote me on either of these) This group was pretty boring when it started out.... the modern dance makes it much mor interesting. Besides Xtank was a better game. In this one yo got to blow up .......... ................ BO
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Newsgroups: alt.games.xtrek Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!caen!uwm.edu!linac!uchinews!news From: BOHUNK@uchicago.edu Subject: Re: THE TRUE MEANING Message-ID: <1992Oct9.001548.21405@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Organization: University of Chicago References: <1992Sep28.111944.942@donau.et.tudelft.nl> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 00:15:48 GMT Lines: 38