Entertainment Applications


Workman

Location /applic/apx/bin/workman
Description An interface to the CD drive which allows the playing of audio CDs either through headphones or the speaker (sun4m only).
Man Page /applic/apx/man/man1/workman.1 (workmandb.1)
WWW Page Workman Home Page
Usage
Workman can only be started once you have in serted an audio CD. There are a few things which need setting up in your .Xdefaults file:

workman.db.shared: /applic/apx/lib/workmandb
workman.db.personal: your-home-dir-here/.workmandb

If you want to use the database stuff after editing the .Xdefaults file, use the command xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xdefaults to update Open Windows' X environment.


Xplay

Location /applic/nir/bin/xplay
Description This graphical tool allows you to play different audio formats.
Man Page None
WWW Page ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/xplay
Usage
Should be pretty obvious. You do need to specify an audio file, but other than that it's point and click.

Xanim

Location /applic/nir/bin/xanim
Description Movie viewer for many different video formats.
Man Page /applic/nir/man/man1/xanim.1
WWW Page http://www.portal.com/~podlipec/home.html
Usage
Should be pretty obvious. You do need to specify a movie to load. For more info check out the man or WWW page.

Virtual Combat

Location /applic/apx/vircom-2.0/combat
Description 3D interactive kill your opponent game.
Man Page Look at help pages in the helpdir subdirectory.
WWW Page Nope
Usage
First a host needs to start combats. This is the server. There are a few options:
-bg to run the server in the background (don't use &)
World = [compound|platform] to choose a world to play in. compound is the default.

Flying

Location /applic/apx/bin/flying
Description Contrary to the obvious, this game has nothing to do with flying. Instead it offers a variety of pool games and more.
Man Page /applic/apx/man/man1/flying.1
WWW Page Nope
Usage
Many different options. just type flying to see them all.

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