
                           XKOBO Version 1.11+w01

              Sat Jan  5 20:55:05 CET 2002   Wolfgang Jhrling
                         wolfgang@pro-linux.de
 
* DESCRIPTION

Xkobo is a single player action game. Playing it is quite simple. Your
object is to destroy all the fortresses. You can control your ship by
pressing the cursor keys (or moving 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).

The game was modified by me (Wolfgang Jhrling), because I wanted new
levels and enemies. I hope you like my modifications. There are 10
new levels (after 10 levels you'll get the original levels 11-50) and
several new enemies.

* REQUIREMENT

Xkobo requires:
  1) Unix, BSD or GNU system (e.g. GNU/Linux)
  2) X window system (256 colors or more)
  3) C++ compiler

Xkobo (1.11) was known to compile and run under the following systems:
*  GNU/Linux
*  Sun-OS 4.1.4
*  BSD/OS
*  Solaris 2.4 (Sparc)
*  HP-UX 9.05

Xkobo 1.11+w01 is known to compile on Debian GNU/Linux 2.2. But it
should work on most other systems as well, since most of my
modifications affect levels and enemies.

* 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 it costs HUGE memory.

       -fast
          This option causes xkobo to use a faster algorithm.   But
          it costs much memory.

       -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
 Copyright (C) 2002  Wolfgang Jhrling
     wolfgang@pro-linux.de

 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.

=========================================================================
