Topic: xBill is an OLD Arcade game about computer viruses and stopping them

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xBill is an OLD Arcade game about computer viruses (and stopping them)!

Perhaps born again as KillBill in the Tjger Game engine? KillBill

The Story


Welcome to xBill...


Yet again, the fate of the world rests on your hands! An evil computer hacker, known only by his handle 'Bill', has created the ultimate computer virus. A virus so powerful that it has the power to transmute an ordinary computer into a toaster oven. (oooh!) 'Bill' has cloned himself into a billion-jillion micro-Bills. Their sole purpose is to deliver the nefarious virus, which has been cleverly disguised as a popular operating system.


As System Administrator / Exterminator, your job is to keep Bill from succeeding at his task.


 


The Rules


Whack Bill off...


xBill has been painstakingly designed and researched in order to make it as easy to use for the whole family as it is for little Sally. Years - nay - days of beta testing and consulting with the cheapest of human interface designers have resulted in a game that is easy to use, yet nothing at all like a Macintosh.


Whack the Bills (click)
Restart the computer (click)
Pick up stolen OSes & return (drag) them to their respective computers
Drag the Bucket to extinguish sparks
Scoring is based on total uptime, with bonuses for killing Bills.
As for the rest, you can probably figure it out. We did, so it can't be too hard.


 


Author


This port to Wingdows:
Lukas Schröder <lukas at azzit dot de>


Credits


These two have nothing to do with this Wingdows version
I just mention them, because I think they deserve it for creating such a cool game:


Main Programmer of the Original Version:
Brian Wellington <bwelling at tis dot com>


Programming & graphics:
Matias Duarte <matias at hyperimage dot com>


Copying


This port to Wingdows is Copyright (c) 1998 Lukas Schröder
The original is Copyright (c) 1994-6 Psychosoft


It's FREE! If you want to express your undying gratitude to us for bringing a small bit of meaning into your otherwise pointless existence, you could always send us e-mail. XBill is distributed under the GNU Public License.


Go play the game now!


 


Wingdows Remarks


Most of the above is taken as-is from the original XBill because it still is right.
Now something to the Wingdows version usage:


Keyboard Layout


N - New Game
P - Pause Game
E - Choose an Extension Pack
W - Warp to LevelH - Hall of Fame



 More popular than Quake!
 Ever get the feeling that nothing is going right?  You're a sysadmin, and someone's trying to destroy your computers.  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. Additionally, some computers are connected with network cables.  When one computer on a network becomes infected, a spark will be sent down the cable, and will infect the computer on the other end when it reaches there.
 That's the basic idea of the game.  Pretty simple, but fun for a while, and definitely something to appreciate.
 XBill was mostly written during the summer of 1994 by Brian Wellington and Matias Duarte, and has gone through several revisions since.  The current version is 2.1.  New ideas are appreciated, and if they sound interesting enough, may be implemented. Especially if those new ideas include graphics.
 Here's a page describing some ideas for future versions.
 This is based on 2.0, and may be updated at some point.  For some reason, it doesn't work too well with appletviewer, but that's not too important.
 Anonymous cvs access should also be available sometime soon.
 
 Download XBill source (HTTP)
 Download XBill i386 RPM (HTTP)
 Download XBill src RPM (HTTP)
Ports:

• MacBill, for OS X
• NXBill, for NEXTSTEP
• BeBill (unfinished)
• WinBill (1.1)
• iPAQ (linux-arm)
• AmigaOS4.0
• Solaris 9/10
• Android (also available in the Android Market)
• any others?

http://www.xbill.org/