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There have been some changes in the Armagetron project structure. The original author, Z-Man,
took a very long break from development. Long enough, in fact, for another team of gifted
and motivated developers to produce a fork called Armagetron Advanced. They managed to
actually understand some of Z-Man's convoluted code and made meaningful additions in the form
of their release 0.2.7.0.
Z-Man has reappeared in the meantime, and joined the Armagetron Advanced development team. So,
now Armagetron Advanced is no longer a fork, it is the official real thing. Armagetron has been
obsoleted by Armagetron advanced. At the time of this writing, a new release 0.2.7.1 has just
been made public that fixes, among others, some security issues of interest for people running
a server.
Z-Man wishes to apologize to everyone who had to wait far too long for news or new developments,
and for those who might have been affected by the security issues. For those who cannot part with
the original Armagetron, version 0.2.6.1 has been released which fixes the most critical security
issues, but no other bugs.
Please proceed to
ORIGINAL CONTENT, BEWARE, IT IS OUTDATED:
(Pronunciation: just like Armageddon, just with a "tr" instead of the "dd".)
In this game, you ride a lightcycle around the game grid. You can only make sharp turns
of 90 degrees and a wall constantly builds up after you. Make your enemies crash into your wall, but
be aware that they are trying to do the same to you. Only if you are fast enough, you may
be able to trap them; but the only way to speed up your lightcycle is to drive close to the
dangerous walls. Prepare for exciting strategic preparations followed by action-packed
close combat!
Status
You will find everything you expect of a Tron Lightcycle game, and sometimes more:
- Play a game with up to four players on one computer
- Fight against challenging AI opponents
- Connect seventeen computers over LAN or the Internet
- Team play
- Useful camera perspectives
- Fully configurable keyboard/mouse bindings
- Adjustable game settings include:
- arena size
- cycle speed
- blast radius of explosions
- trail length
- trail disappearance delay
License
This game is distributed under the
GNU General Public License. Download
and copy Armagetron to all your friends for free. The source code is
also available for download; you are free to mess
with it and even redistribute it, provided you mark all the changes you made
and you don't claim to be the original author.
Thanks to 
for hosting this website and managing the development!
See the contacts page for mail addresses and credits.
Last modification: Wed Jan 30 17:17:24 CET 2008