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Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!panix!.POSTED.www.mrbrklyn.com!not-for-mail From: Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Crossfire Game on Artix Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 06:06:35 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: <103tnjk$m79$1@reader2.panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 10:06:44 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="www.mrbrklyn.com:96.57.23.83"; logging-data="22761"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,8350.msg50011/topicseen.html#msg50011 Crossfire is a free software game that was started in the mid-1990s and is still under development and played around the world. It was loosely base on the video game (remember those - a quarter a play) called Gauntlet. https://archive.org/details/arcade_gauntlet Rewritten in C by Mark Wedel, Crossfire was on my first SuSE disc, S.u.S.E. Linux 4.2. It was amazing if not complete. It has a server/client architecture although we only had 2400 Buad modems and not much home internet access. In time, Rick Tanner adopted the game and put it on his real-time servers and ran a 24/7 server for remote clients to connect. Eventually a GTK2 cleint was produces which is still available, along with Java Clients, and DockWIndwos and an experimental web based version using Rust. https://crossfire.real-time.com/clients/index.html. We downloaded directly from CVS and Subversion and occasional FTP assess on susesite and SuSE. A small international community developed around it, all of them being so young back then and now men in their 40s who still hack the game and play. It has a client script API to make robots et al and they hangout on IRC #crossfire (now on freenode)  2006 http://www.mrbrklyn.com/purim_2006/cros ... c00162.jpg Multiple Generations of my family have played Crossfire and so have the grandchildren as the have moved across the world Crossfire (and Linux) keeps them together