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<h1>Bos Wars</h1>
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<h2>What is Bos Wars?</h2>
Bos Wars is a futuristic real time strategy game (RTS). In a RTS game,
the player has to combat it's enemies while running his war economy.
Everything runs in so-called real-time, in opposition to turn-based games
where the player always has to wait for his turn. The trick is to balance
the effort put into building the economy and building an army to defend
and attack the enemies.
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Bos Wars has a dynamic rate based economy. Energy is produced by power
plants and magma gets pumped from hot spots. Buildings and mobile units
are also built at a continuous rate. Control of larger parts of the map
creates the potential to increase your economy throughput. Holding key
points like roads and passages allow for different strategies.
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It is possible to play against human opponents over LAN, internet, or
against the computer. It successfully runs under Linux, MS Windows, BSD,
and Mac OS X.
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Bos Wars aims to create a completely original and fun open source RTS game.
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The newest version of Bos Wars can always be found at
<a href="http://www.boswars.org">http://www.boswars.org</a>.
<h2>Installation</h2>
Read the <a href="install.html">installation</a> documentation for installing and building Bos Wars.
<h2>Development</h2>
Read <a href="development.html">development.html</a> if you want to help
out with Bos Wars development<p>
Documentation on the scripting language (Lua)
can be found at <a href="http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/">http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/</a>.
To configure the game, the engine extends Lua with its <a href="scripts/index.html">scripting</a> API.<p>
The changes done in the Bos Wars project are listed in the file <a href="../CHANGELOG">CHANGELOG</a>.
<h2>Problems and contact</h2>
If you have problems compiling, installing or playing Bos Wars, read
<a href="faq.html">faq.html</a>. Please report bugs on our
<a href="http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=stratagus-bos">bug tracker</a>.
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You can contact us via the website, wiki or on IRC.
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<h2>Copyrights</h2>
This work, Bos Wars, is copyrighted in 2004-2008 by Tina Petersen Jensen,
Francois Beerten and many others.<p>
Read the file <a href="../COPYRIGHT.txt">COPYRIGHT.txt</a>
for the detailed copyright notice.<p>
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(C) Copyright 1998-2008 by The <a href="http://boswars.org">Bos Wars</a> Project
under the <a href="gpl.html">GNU General Public License</a>.<br>
All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners.<br>
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