Xirtrix 1.2 Legacy Release

This binary release is from year 2000. It was rescued from a single cd-rom
backup that I managed to find. It does not contain source code or original
data files, but they were also found. It's uncertain if this game will run
properly, because it -could- be a development build. In that case there is
not much to do, because I simply can't compile a new DOS version.

I decided to keep original files intact, even xir.txt that has my old web
page and e-mail which no longer exist. The first version was released in
1995, the same year I began to create a certain roguelike game. Xirtrix
is programmed in C and it has one 2358 lines source file. It has at least
two bugs when releasing memory at the exit, but they can't crash the game
while it's running.

At that time I was creating some small games like this one, but decided to
move on role-playing game development inspired by games like Nethack and
Ultima Underworld 2 (1993). In hindsight it was probably a bad decision
and certainly a non-commercial decision, because would I have decided to
focus on medium-sized game projects there would have been more releases,
even games that would have made some money.

30. Dec 2024
Paul K. Pekkarinen
