Subject: Recreation: new solitaire games for X11 on tsx-11
From: [email-masked] (Michael Bischoff)
Date: 26 Mar 93 17:08:41 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

Hello,
I have uploaded xpat-0.5 to tsx-11.mit.edu.

xpat is a patience game similar to spider and xsol.
In fact, you can play these both solitaire games with xpat.
In addition to this, xpat knows the rules of klondike and freecell.
The standard rules can be customized (change the number of slots
or decks) and it has dynamic screen layout.
xpat supports cards of different sizes for different resolution
graphics. (In fact, the graphic routines and the cards are based
on the spider game (c) by Sun, Heather Rose, Dave Lemke and  others).

In addition, you can have colour card images. The package has
hand-coloured cards (approx 20 colours), but since these are
stored in the .xpm-format, you can create your own favorite card images
without the need to recompile xpat, by using the pixmap(1x) editor
by Groupe Bull and Arnaud Le Hors.

The files can be found in the following directories: [ @tsx-11.mit.edu]

binary:
/pub/linux/binaries/usr.bin.X11/xpat-0.5-bin.tar.z
/pub/linux/binaries/usr.bin.X11/xpat-0.5-xpm.tar.z
source:
/pub/linux/sources/usr.bin.X11/xpat-0.5-src.tar.z
/pub/linux/sources/usr.bin.X11/xpat-0.5-xpm.tar.z

The xpm archives are the same (in fact, one is a symlink to the other)

Authors:
xpat was written by Heiko Eissfeldt and Michael Bischoff,
using portions of the spider game.

    Happy Linuxing

P.S. A **very** early version of this game was written in TP under DOS.
     What a difference!

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