Index of /~hde/netrek

	Name	Last modified	Size	Description
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	README.html	1995-03-28 14:39	9.8K
	advice	1995-03-13 12:59	11K
	gameplan	1995-03-30 01:15	3.6K
	glossary	1995-03-13 13:29	12K
	jihadplan	1995-03-30 01:14	5.8K
	netrek-proverbs	1995-04-05 15:47	3.7K
	outline	1995-05-04 18:44	13K
	tao-of-netrek	1995-03-30 01:14	2.1K
	workings	1995-04-16 22:27	13K

Netrek Information Archive

This is an archive for information of interest to the Netrek community. The original source was the andrew.games.xtrek bboard at CMU; later items came from the alt.games.xtrek newsgroup, and now the rec.games.netrek newsgroup. The archive is maintained by jch@cs.cmu.edu. The WAIS index is maintained by spot@cs.cmu.edu. Most of this page is just a listing of the archive contents. If you're new to netrek, try jumping to the beginners section. If you want to see where the information came from and other ways of accessing it, jump to the information sources section.

Contents

ChangeLog

Update history of the files

README

Plaintext version of this file

README.html

This file

art-of-war

The classic essay on war by Sun Tzu

beginners

Red Shirt's advice to beginners

borgs

Aka cyborgs - what they are, where you can get them

bot-busting

How to kill robots

client-patches

Correcting various infelicities in the standard client

definitions

The meanings of various game terms

dogfighting

Lance puts it all into one easy-to-read file

enl

The European Netrek League and mailing list

frequent-suggestions

Commonly-proposed changes to Netrek, and their faults

ftp-list

Current FTP site list from rec.games.netrek

game-facts

An analysis of the rules and parameters of the game

help-sheet

A one-page summary of the game commands

hints

Huge collection of random game hints

hockey

How to play Netrek hockey

humor

Murphy goes to war, top-10 lists, deteriorata, and more

maintainers

Who is responsible for this outrage?

nbr

Current proposals for the Next Big Release of the client

net-behaviour

Find out what Netrek does to networks, and vice versa

netrek-faq

Current FAQ list from rec.games.netrek

ogging

What it is, how to do it, how to avoid it

opening-screen

A three-page summary of game commands and strategy

personae

Does Netrek bring out the schizophrenic in you?

planet-taking

Hints from Grey Elf, a master of the art

playing-as

How to play an Assault Ship, by Todd Williamson and Bert E.

playing-bb

How to play a Battleship, by Tom Holub

playing-ca

How to play a Cruiser, by Andrew Markiel

playing-dd

How to play a Destroyer, by Robert Hill

playing-dd-alt

Alternative guide to playing a Destroyer

playing-sb

How to play a Starbase, by Craig Boas

playing-sc

How to play a Scout, by Bert Enderton

proverbs

Nuggets of Netrek wisdom, by Bert Enderton

rsa

The new RSA-based blessing method, and how it works.

server-list

Current server list from rec.games.netrek

server-patches

What to apply if your server doesn't work

server-secrets

How to bring up a Netrek server

ship-facts

The capabilities of the various ship types

ship-opinions

One person's opinions of the different ships

short-packets

Definition of the UDP short packets

strategy

Common strategies used in INL games

starbases

How to play them and how NOT to play them

udp

Information on Andy McFadden's UDP client

xtrek-vs-netrek

A comparison of the two games, plus where to get xtrek

xtrekrc-hints

How to customize your display and keyboard mappings

xtrekrc-sample

Some sample .xtrekrc files

6x10italic.tar.Z

X11 italic (actually, underlined) 6x10 font in pcf and bdf

beef.readme

Leonard Dicken's information borg (beef.howto, beef.shar.Z, and beef.bitmaps.shar.Z)

bitmaps.Iggy.README)

Bitmaps to give Iggy his own ship type (bitmaps.Iggy.h)

bronco.final.tar.Z:

Rerence Chang's last release of the Bronco server source

ck_players.readme

Program to list the players on a server, by Ivan Vazquez (ck_players.tar.Z)

recorder-patch

Julian Ho's patch to let a client record a game

scoredb.bronco.Z

Bronco player database when Terence left

scoredb.rwd4.Z

Rwd4 player database when it went down

ship-table.ps.Z

Table of all the ship statistics; useful for quantitative comparison, and fits on one printed page! (also ship-table.dvi.Z)

xtrekguide.ps.Z

Player's guide for Xtrek, the granddaddy of Netrek. Included for historical interest, and to stop people hosing the Japanese site which is its other source... (also xtrekguide.dvi.Z and xtrekguide.tex.Z)

FTP sites with Netrek source and binaries are listed in ftp-list; this site currently contains the source for the Bronco server, beef borg, and the original ck_players utility, all in the code subdirectory. I no longer carry Andy McFadden's excellent collection of toolbox utilities, because he was updating them too often :-) [More seriously, I don't carry much code anymore, since other sites do a better job - only code that began here is kept here]

Other Sources Of Information

• grind.isca.uiowa.edu (128.255.21.233)
• ftp.risc.uni-linz.ac.at (193.170.33.112)
• ftp.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.174.20)

(:source 
   :version  3 
   :ip-address "128.2.206.11"
   :ip-name "almond.srv.cs.cmu.edu"
   :tcp-port 6000
   :database-name "netrek-ftp"
   :cost 0.00 
   :cost-unit :free 
   :maintainer "spot@cs.cmu.edu"
)

It is also available via AFS in /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/jch/netrek. If your site has AFS, your WWW client should already be using it to view this file. There is an informal competition to see who has AFS access over the furthest physical distance. The current record-holder is Kristian Ejvind, in Stockholm, Sweden.

If you have neither AFS, WAIS, Mosaic, nor FTP access, you can get the files by e-mail using the FTP-to-email gateway at ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com.