				  XBill by 

                Main Programmer:        Programming and graphics:
		Brian Wellington             Matias Duarte

	    (bwelling@eng.umd.edu)        (matias@eng.umd.edu)
			

Welcome to version 1.0 of XBill!

The little people running around the screen are trying to infect your
computers with Wingdows [TM], a virus cleverly designed to resemble a
popular operating system.  Your objective is to click the mouse on them,
ending their potential threat.  If one of the people reaches a computer,
it will turn it off and, after a short while, replace your operating system
with the virus it carries. It will then attempt to run off the screen with 
your vital software.

Clicking the button on one of the little people will cause it to cry out in
pain and disappear (id software eat your heart out!), and drop the stolen os
if it is carrying one.  If a computer is running Wingdows or is temporarily
off, the os can be dragged back to the computer (or another computer
originally running the same os).  

To install:
	edit the Imakefile
	xmkmf -a
	make
	make install

Note: You need libXpm installed.  If you don't have it, get it from your
	favorite X ftp site.

Note: You need Motif installed.  A lot of the code is portable, and some parts
	were even written for the Athena widget set, but it doesn't seem worth
	it.  If anyone else wants to try, go ahead.  If you don't have Motif,
	it might be possible to get a statically linked binary.  I can do it
	for a Linux system.  Or, you could wait for LessTif to be done enough.

Note: As far as I know, XBill only works on Linux and OSF/1, since I haven't
	gotten it to work anywhere else.  There's no good reason for this, and
	a lot of it is probably configuration stuff, but I don't know how to
	fix it.  It should compile on Linux straight out of the box.  On
	the OSF/1 computer I compiled it on, I had to hack the Makefile
	produced by imake a lot to get it to include the right copies of 
	the X shared libraries.  Good luck.

Note: Over a netwrok, the game is really slow.  It's probably only usable
	locally or over a really fast network.

Command line options:
	-l<n>, -L<n>	Start on level n
	-s		Only redraw half as often.  May help on slow networks
	-v		Print version number and exit

Official distribution site: defenestration.dorm.umd.edu:/pub/xbill
