Crossfire on Artix Sighting

[mrbrklyn]

https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/ ... l#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


2024
http://www.mrbrklyn.com/images/crossfire_new.jpg

Crossfire is native to Linux and the great thing about the game is that it has a vast number of puzzles and maps to keep you busy. It has alchemy, 4 forms of magic, weapon and arrows that can be improved and constructed and numerous dieties that have special powers and play-ability. You can play for decades and still learn new things and new maps are constantly being added.

https://crossfire.real-time.com/
https://forum.cross-fire.org/phpBB3/
https://wiki.cross-fire.org/

[Leaf]

Very nice! Thank you for working on this and sharing it.