------------------------------------------------------------------------- XKOBO Version 1.9 Thu Apr 4 09:49:01 JST 1996 Akira Higuchi a-higuti@math.hokudai.ac.jp ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * DESCRIPTION Xkobo is a single player action game. The play is quite simple. Your object is to destroy all the fortresses. You can control your ship by pressing the cursor keys (or mov- ing the mouse cursor), and shot beams by pressing the SHIFT key (or the left mouse button). The game can be paused by pressing 's' (or the right mouse button). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * REQUIREMENT Xkobo requires: 1) Unix (BSD, Linux, etc.) 2) X window system (256 colors or greater) 3) C++ compiler Xkobo is known to compile and run under the following systems: * Linux * Sun-OS 4.1.4 * BSD/OS * Solaris 2.4 (Sparc) * HP-UX 9.05 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * INSTALLING Edit Imakefile (if you need) and run % xmkmf -a % make % su # make install # make install.man ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * OPTIONS -display displayname This option specifies the name of the X server to use. -fit This option causes xkobo to use the default colormap. Without this option, xkobo uses a private colormap. -wait value This option specifies the speed of the game. The default value is 30(msec). -doublesize This option causes xkobo to enlarge the size of the window. But memory usage is also enlarged. -memory This option causes xkobo to reduce memory usage. But it may make the game slow. -cheat Cheat mode. It allows any level to be played, does not update score table. -hiscores Print the high score table to standard out, and exit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * THANKS TO ... Bruce Cheng Christoph Lameter Davide Rossi Eduard Martinescu Elan Feingold Helmut Hoenig Jeff Epler Joe Ramey Joey Hess Michael Sterrett Mihail Iotov Shoichi Nakayama Thomas Marsh Torsten Wolnik ========================================================================= XKOBO, a video-oriented game Copyright (C) 1995,1996 Akira Higuchi a-higuti@math.hokudai.ac.jp This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. =========================================================================