Xconq is an empire-building strategy game, where players contest for
world domination.  In the standard game, each player (there may be up
to 31) starts with a handful of towns and cities, and may build
infantry, armor, airplanes, and a variety of ships.  Each side's
movements are hidden; speed and surprise are important.  Any or all
sides may be played by the computer.  In addition to the standard
game, Xconq includes a game design language (GDL) that can be used to
define a wide variety of games. Games already in the distribution's
library include everything from basic combat to elaborate world
models, with time periods ranging from ancient history into the
distant future.  Xconq has a huge number of features, and a lengthy
manual describing them.

Xconq runs on many different systems; it includes graphical interfaces
for X11, curses, and Macintosh(tm).  The X11 interface allows for
multiple human players, each on a different display.  The game design
mechanism includes the ability to add new color and monochrome imagery
for games.

The first version of Xconq was released in 1987.  Since then there
have been many releases by various people, most of them based on
version 5.  Version 7 is a major rewrite and expansion of 5.5, and
includes many more capabilities; see the file NEWS for a summary.

The current version is 7.2.2.

All sources:	ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/xconq/xconq-7.2.2.tar.gz
Mac binary:	ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/xconq/xconq-7.2.2.cpt.hqx
Postscript:	ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/xconq/xconq-7.2-ps.tar.gz
Emacs Info:	ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/xconq/xconq-7.2-info.tar.gz
HTML:		ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/xconq/xconq-7.2-html.tar.gz

Mac projects:	ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/xconq/xconq-7.2projs.cpt.hqx

This file:	ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/xconq/README
News file:	ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/xconq/NEWS

To see recent snapshots of progress on the next version (which may or
may not work - no guarantees!), look in pub/xconq/Snapshots.

[Last updated June 30, 1998]