Welcome to the XBoing Home Page


What is XBoing?

XBoing is a blockout type game where you have a paddle which you control to bounce a ball around the game zone destroying blocks with a proton ball.

Each block carries a different point value. The more blocks you destroy, the better your score. The person with the highest score wins.

The arena is filled with blocks and other objects. You have a paddle that can move from left to right at the bottom of the arena. You control the paddle so that the proton ball bounces around blowing up blocks and that it does not go past the paddle and out the bottom, much like a pinball game.

Some Game Features

System Requirements

The game runs under the X Window System. You must have a colour X Server and a fair amount of memory!

Where can I get XBoing?

XBoing has been posted to comp.sources.x newsgroup once and is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.x.org in the /contrib directory. Download: latest version

The archived file is called xboing1.8-tar.gz. An associated readme file is also in this directory.

Submit a bug report :-(

To submit a XBoing bug report or suggestion, you can email me at jck@citri.edu.au


Written by Justin Kibell jck@citri.edu.au