XBill
Sign in to saveXBill is an arcade style game for the X Window System. The game features a bespectacled character known as "Bill" (a spoof of Bill Gates). The goal is to prevent Bill's legions of clones, referred to as "micro-Bills", from installing "Wingdows", a virus "cleverly designed to resemble a popular operating system" (a parody of Windows), on a variety of computers running other operating systems. It was popular among Linux gamers at the end of the 1990s, selected as Linux Journal reader's second favourite Linux game in 1999.
Key facts
- Software.name
- XBill
- Software.logo
- XBill.png
- Software.screenshot
- Gnome-xbill level 20 gnome-games 1.4.0.3 sshot20040803.png
- Software.caption
- Gnome XBill level 20
- Software.author
- Brian Wellington and Matías Duarte
- Software.latest release version
- 2.1
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.platform
- Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, OpenMoko, Android, Maemo, iOS, FreeBSD, AmigaOS, BeOS, HaikuOS, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OS/2, Solaris, OpenSolaris.
- Software.genre
- Arcade game
- Software.license
- GPL (Emailware)
- Software.website
- xbill.org
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Published
- 1994
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game
- Country of origin
- United States
- Platform
- iOS
- Official website
- xbill.org
- Image
- Gnome-xbill level 20 gnome-games 1.4.0.3 sshot20040803.png
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- P277
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- touchscreen
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- iOS
Article
6 sectionsContents
- Gameplay
- History
- Reception and impact
- See also
- References
- External links
XBill is an arcade style game for the X Window System. The game features a bespectacled character known as "Bill" (a spoof of Bill Gates). The goal is to prevent Bill's legions of clones, referred to as "micro-Bills", from installing "Wingdows", a virus "cleverly designed to resemble a popular operating system" (a parody of Windows), on a variety of computers running other operating systems. It was popular among Linux gamers at the end of the 1990s, selected as Linux Journal reader's second favourite Linux game in 1999.
== Gameplay == The player must defend various computers, including PCs running Linux and BSD, SPARCstations with Solaris, SGI IRIX workstations, Apple Macintoshs, PalmPilots, and NeXTcubes. The current operating system is shown by a logo on the computer's screen, which is ejected to the side when Bill installs Wingdows onto a computer.