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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

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