Announcement of Stony Brook World

[Mark Galassi]

		Announcement of Stony Brook World
		*********************************

Stony Brook World (SBW) is a multi-player world simulation game.  Each
user is the leader of a nation, and makes decisions for that nation.
The decisions are political, military, diplomatic and economic, and
all these are extremely important for the well-being of a nation.

SBW has features from both fantasy role-playing games, educational
games, and war games: a user needs to develop a character as leader of
a nation, keep a healty economy, and can then develop a strong
military force using magic or technology.

SBW was developed at SUNY at Stony Brook by a group of students in
Physics, Computer Science and other departments, in the spring/summer
of 1990.  It is under the Free Software Foundation Copyright (GNU
General Public Licence).  It has beta tested in a game at Stony Brook
involving 40 players, which has run for almost 2 months (about 40
turns).

It has been tested on several versions of UNIX: System V.2 (Ridge and
UNIX PC), System V.3 (MIPS and SGI), Sun OS 4.0 (sun sparcstation).  A
port is under way for the Amiga.

SBW was originally inspired by Conquer, a very creative game written
by Ed Barlow and Adam Bryant, though it has diverged a lot.

Version 1.0 of SBW is available by anonymous ftp from
	max.physics.sunysb.edu [129.49.21.100]
in
	pub/sbw/sbw-1.0.tar.Z


The documentation is written in LaTeXinfo.  If you don't have the
latexinfo.sty and tabular.sty files needed to run latex, you can
ftp the files
	sbw-man.dvi.Z
and
	sbw-man.PS.Z
from the same directory.

We are thinking of posting it to alt.sources soon, and to
comp.sources.games when we get some response from users outside of the
Stony Brook campus, and clean up the unpacking/installation process.
-- 
    {These opinions are mine, and should be everybody else's :-)}
	Mark Galassi		rosalia at dirac.physics.sunysb.edu
	rosalia at mozart.UUCP	rosalia at sunysbnp.BITNET