Boson, a real-time strategy game -------------------------------- What is it ? Boson is an OpenGL real-time strategy game, with the feeling of Command&Conquer(tm) or StarCraft(tm) and OpenGL support. It is designed to run on Unix (Linux) computers, and is built on top of the libkdegames, kde and Qt libraries. A minimum of two players is required, since there is no artificial intelligence yet. Licensing: Boson's Code and Graphics are published under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Minimum hardware requirements: Note: If you have a older graphics card like a TNT2 you will need a fast CPU. 500 MHz ix86 Prozessor (don't know anything about other machines) 256 MB RAM 3D accelerator card A driver from the vendor is recommended because they are those which give the best performance Optional: Sound card Minimum software requirements: XFree 4.x server (with OpenGL support) - see http://www.xfree86.org QT (at least version 3) - see http://www.trolltech.com KDE (at least version 3.0) - see http://www.kde.org kdegames/libkdegames - usually shipped with KDE kdemultimedia - also shipped with KDE libvorbis (for sound and music) - see http://www.vorbis.com lib3ds (Units and building rendering) - see http://lib3ds.sf.net OpenGL - The OpenGL library (should be included in your XFree Server or graphics card driver) wml - Optional, for the handbook - see http://www.thewml.org Installation: The Boson handbook is in the data module. Go to ../data/doc/en/start.html, there you will find something under "Getting started" (assuming you downloaded your data module to ..) Also check the website for more info : http://boson.eu.org/