The opening title screen from XBlast
 
 Selecting your players, machines, displays and game options.
 
Use the statistics options for info on 'frag' counts and scores.
 
Set keys, controls, taunt messages and more with the resource editor.
 
Customise you bomberman with the colour editor.
 
One of the many levels for XBlast.
 
The futuristic space level.
 		 XBlast is a freely available version of that well known classic; Bomberman. 

It runs on most platforms capable of running X11. Performance is good, even without a supercooled 10 gigahertz pentium 7, and happily runs in 16Mb of ram :)  It will run in grayscale or colour mode - meaning just about anything can run it - as long as you have the right libs, and a compiler. 

Machines it has been successfully ran on are: 

x86 - Linux 2.0.x 
x86 - SCO OpenDesktop 
x86 - NetBSD 
DEC 5000/240 - Ultrix 
DEC Alpha - OSF/1 Motif 
HP 9000 -HP-UX 
Motorola MVME-147SA Lynx-OS 
Sparc2 - SUNOS 4.1.3 
Sparc 10/41 - Solaris 2.3 
UltraSparc - Solaris 
SGI - Irix 4.0.5 sysv 
IBM RS/6000 - AIX 3.2.4 

... and will probably run on others too. 

XBlast can be run on a single workstation or PC, but for the ultimate battle can use the X system to connect up to 6 players; using 1 or 2 players per X server (machine). 

Just about all of the Bomberman, and Superbomberman power-ups and extras are included in the game. The only noticeable thing missing is the lack of enemies or monsters. This has been promised for a future version. Though for now, it is the multiplayer aspect which keeps us hooked! An excellent game... 

  • How to get XBlast
You can get latest versions of XBlast from these locations. Check the hompage for details though... 

ftp.x.org (/contrib/games/multi_player) 

sunsite.unc.edu (/pub/linux/games/x11/video) 
 

  • XBlast homepage
The officical XBlast homepage is maintained by Oliver Vogel, the original author of XBlast, there is always news of latest verisions, patches and photos of XBlast tournaments! 

http://www.ikp.uni-koeln.de/~vogel/xblast/xblast.html 
 

 
  
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 All images on this page were grabbed from my own desktop. Page content by J.Snowdon 1998.