| version 1.11 | | version 1.12 |
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| WHAT IS CROSSFIRE? | | WHAT IS CROSSFIRE? |
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| This is a multiplayer graphical arcade and adventure game made for | | This is a multiplayer graphical arcade and adventure game made for |
| the X-Windows environment. | | the X-Windows environment. A windows client is also available. |
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| It has certain flavours from other games, especially Gauntlet (TM) | | It has certain flavours from other games, especially Gauntlet (TM) |
| and Nethack/Moria. | | and Nethack/Moria. |
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| REQUIREMENTS | | REQUIREMENTS |
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| You will need UNIX, X-windows and an ANSI C compiler to compile this game. | | For UNIX, X-windows and an ANSI C compiler to compile this game. |
| To run it on Windows 9x, you need Visual C++ (or some other ANSI C | | A window system is not needed if you don't want to compile the |
| | | map editor. |
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| | | For Windows 9x, you need Visual C++ (or some other ANSI C |
| compiler that can read ".dsw"-files). | | compiler that can read ".dsw"-files). |
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| COMPILING | | COMPILING |
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| Crossfire has been known to compile on the following systems | | Crossfire has been known to compile on a wide variety of |
| (latest known version number of Crossfire that compiled on these | | systems. It should compile and most all ANSI C and Posix |
| systems is included in parantheses): | | compliant systems. |
| o PC Compatible, with Linux 2.2 (gcc, glibc) (latest) | | |
| o Siemens Reliant Unix 5.44 (0.95.4) | | |
| o Solaris 2.6 systems (0.95.1) | | |
| o Silicon Graphics, Irix 6.3 (standard cc) 0.94.0 | | |
| o Sun4 with Solaris 2.5 (with gcc) (0.93.7) | | |
| o PC Compatible, with Linux 1.2.13 (0.92.4) | | |
| o Sun4 with SunOS 4.1.3 (0.92.2) | | |
| o Sun4 with Solaris 2.x (0.92.0) | | |
| o Sun3, SunOs 4.1.1, gcc (0.91.7) | | |
| o DEC300AXP-500 (Alpha with OSF1 1.3) (0.90.3) | | |
| o Ultrix 4.2a (0.90.1) | | |
| o IBM RS/6000 with AIX 1.2, X11R4 (0.90.2) | | |
| o HP735, HPUX, X11R5 (0.90.2) | | |
| o DEC 3100 and DEC 5000 with ULTRIX BSD 4.2 | | |
| o DEC with OSF1 | | |
| o VAX3100 with BSD 4.3 | | |
| o IBM RT with BSD4.3 | | |
| o HP9000-series (HP-UX) (very old versions of HP-UX might barf on stdarg.h) | | |
| o MIPS with RISC/os | | |
| o (UMIPS) 4.52 (?) | | |
| o AT&T system 300 with NCR UNIX SVR4 MP-RAS | | |
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| It has been compiled with X11R3, X11R4, X11R5, X11R6 (the editor requires | | |
| X11R5 or X11R6). | | |
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| To get directions on compilation for UNIX/LINUX, read the INSTALL file. | | To get directions on compilation for UNIX/LINUX, read the INSTALL file. |
| For Win9x, read INSTALL_WIN32.txt. | | For Win9x, read INSTALL_WIN32.txt. |
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| has set up, or run your own server and connect to that. The | | has set up, or run your own server and connect to that. The |
| client package has information for connecting to servers. | | client package has information for connecting to servers. |
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| To run your own server, you need to make the crossfire binaries and | | To run your own server, you need to make the crossfire binaries and install |
| install them, and then run the crossfire program. This now creates | | them, and then run the crossfire program. This now creates a server which |
| a server which you/other people can connect to. If you plan to run | | you/other people can connect to. The map files will need to get downloaded |
| a long term server, you should use one of the scripts provided that | | and installed for the server to run properly. If you plan to run a long |
| will re-run crossfire if it dies for some reason. | | term server, you should use one of the scripts provided that will re-run |
| | | crossfire if it dies for some reason. |
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| MAILING LIST | | MAILING LIST |
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| FTP-sites where you can look for the latest versions are: | | FTP-sites where you can look for the latest versions are: |
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| ftp://ftp.scruz.net:/users/mwedel/public (165.227.192.254) | | ftp://ftp.scruz.net:/users/mwedel/public (165.227.192.254) |
| | | ftp://ftp.sourceforge.net:/pub/sourceforge/crossfire (64.28.67.101) |
| ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no:/pub/crossfire (129.240.64.44) | | ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no:/pub/crossfire (129.240.64.44) |
| ftp://ftp.real-time.com/pub/games/crossfire (206.10.252.12) | | ftp://ftp.real-time.com/pub/games/crossfire (206.10.252.12) |
| ftp://ftp.cs.city.ac.uk:/pub/games/crossfire/ | | ftp://ftp.cs.city.ac.uk:/pub/games/crossfire/ |
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| ftp://crossfire.futt.org//pub/crossfire | | ftp://crossfire.futt.org//pub/crossfire |
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| Changes made since the latest release can be found at the CVS | | Changes made since the latest release can be found at the CVS |
| repository. You can access the nightly builds from: | | repository. Information on anonymous CVS access as |
| http://langmuir.eecs.berkeley.edu/pub/peterm | | the download CVS snapshots and browsing the repository can be |
| ftp://crossfire.futt.org/pub/crossfire/cvs_snapshots/ | | found at: |
| | | http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=13833 |
| If you are looking for a windows/NT client, look at: | | |
| ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no:/pub/crossfire/incoming (129.240.64.44) | | |
| for a file called cfcXXXX.zip (XXXX are numbers representing the version - | | |
| get the latest) | | |
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| Please use the one nearest to you. ".no" and ".uk" in Europe, ".au" in | | |
| Australia, ".com" in USA. | | |
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| If you are setting up another site, please notify me. | | If you are looking for a windows/NT client, look at: |
| | | http://mids.student.utwente.nl/%7Emichtoen/crossfire/ |
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| WEB SITES: | | WEB SITES: |
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| The following web addresses have crossfire information that you may find | | The following web addresses have crossfire information that you may find |
| useful (Known to work as of 1-3-97): | | useful: |
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| german version: | | http://crossfire.real-time.com/ |
| http://www.fak14.uni-muenchen.de/~h729ihqu/games/crossfire.html | | real-time is the main crossfire site. |
| english version: | | |
| http://www.fak14.uni-muenchen.de/~h729ihqu/games/crossfire-engl.html | | |
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| REPORTING BUGS | | REPORTING BUGS |
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| First, check the INSTALL file for common problems, and see if yours is | | First, check the INSTALL file for common problems, and see if yours is |
| mentioned. | | mentioned. |
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| Crossfire is still in a developmental stage - it is hardly a finished | | |
| program. As such, it is assumed that the users have had experience using | | |
| X11 and C programming. If you are a novice user having problems, please | | |
| don't report problems unless you are absolutely sure it is crossfire that | | |
| is the problem. | | |
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| The mailing list is where present development work and bugs are typically | | The mailing list is where present development work and bugs are typically |
| discussed. If you want to know what is happening with crossfire, join the | | discussed. If you want to know what is happening with crossfire, join the |
| list and please ask there. | | list and please ask there. |
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| version. If you report a bug that has since been fixed, you are not likely | | version. If you report a bug that has since been fixed, you are not likely |
| to get any help. | | to get any help. |
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| Note: If you can not reproduce the bug, and lack the skills/knowledge | | Further debugging informatiion can be found at |
| necessary to run a debugger to find out where it crashed, chances are there | | http://crossfire.real-time.com/debugging_tips.html |
| is little I can do to help. | | |
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| Note2: I only have a sun 3 (with sunos 4.1.1 and gcc) for developement. | | |
| As such, if you have problems compiling on some other type of systems | | |
| due to header files or similar system dependant things, I am not likely | | |
| to help out that much. | | |
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| Note3: If you have core dumps, or trouble compiling on whatever system, | | |
| and are able to give me a guest account or something similar to log onto | | |
| your system to poke around with the code or core dump, I will likely take | | |
| you up on your offer. If you make such an offer, I will assume that you | | |
| have oberyed whatever usage rules/policies are applicable for your site. | | |
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| Mail the bug report to crossfire-devel@listserv.real-time.com | | Mail the bug report to crossfire-devel@listserv.real-time.com |
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| PUBLIC SERVERS: | | PUBLIC SERVERS: |
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| As of March 25, 1999, I removed all the servers that were listed in this | | The best way to find a server to play is to run the client. It will contact |
| section, since I believe they were grossly out of date. The one | | the metaserver and present a list to choose from. You can also see |
| exception is the voldsboks.pvv.org since Frank just reported setting it up. | | a list at http://crossfire.real-time.com/metaserver/ |
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| crossfire.csua.berkeley.edu (8-24-2000) | | |
| port: 13327 (default) | | |
| Notes: tmp maps are not recycled. | | |
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| voldsboks.pvv.org (3-25-1999) | | |
| port: 13327 (default) | | |
| version: 0.95.2 | | |
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| crossfire.oc.humbug.org.au (8-22-1999) | | |
| port: 13327 (default) | | |
| version: 0.95.5? | | |
| Notes: Permadeath is turned off. | | |
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| develop.nmdg.com (8-25-1999) | | |
| port: 13327 (default) | | |
| version: 0.95.3 | | |
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| COPYRIGHT | | COPYRIGHT |