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Re: XSoldier for Debian JR



Another update ...

On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 10:27:11PM +0000, John Gay wrote:
> XSoldier is a very fast 2-D shoot-em-up game similar to Galaxians and other
> space games.
> 
> The ship has side to side and limited up and down movement as various ship come
> down from the top. There are also various power-ups ammo types to be caught as
> well. After the current wave of ships has passed, a mother ship comes down and
> has to be defeated as well to move to the next level. Each level presents more
> types of ships to fight and the difficulty increases as well.

I omitted this paragraph, because it duplicates the description.  Besides,
saying it's like Galaxians pretty much sums it up.

> The down-sides are:
> 1) It can be more memory-hungry than other games. The response is sluggish under
> 16M of memory.
> 2) It requires 1024 X 768 to fit on the screen.
> 
> Aside from those two drawbacks, it is a fast-paced, engaging and enjoyable game
> for many age groups. My 11 Year old Daughter has great fun playing it, when she
> can get me away from it : )

Again, this will appear during the next w.d.o update.

Ben
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