XFrisk is a computer version of the classic Risk board game. It is a multiplayer game played on a TCP/IP network, uses the X11 window system for graphics and runs on most UNIX and UNIX-like platforms.
XFrisk was originally developed by Elan Feingold, with numerous bug fixes and comments from various people. Eventually he ran out of time for continuing the project and in 1999 it was transferred to a loose group of people hanging out at the IRCNet #linux channel. As version 1.1 had never been officially released but something like it had been created after version 1.0, the next version with numerous updates was released as 1.2.
In theory XFrisk will compile and run on almost any UNIX-like platform with X11 release 6 and the required system functions (mostly POSIX.1 functions). Practice has proved to be a lot more complicated than that. Here is a short list of platforms that have been successfully used for running XFrisk version 1.2:
In the current CVS development version XFrisk uses GNU autoconf and automake generated build scripts to find the headers, libraries, functions and data types it needs. This is still 'work in progress' and far from complete.
Although many people currently influence the development of XFrisk, Tony den Haan (xfrisk@tuxick.net) and Mikko Hyvärinen (morphy@iki.fi) can be called (or blamed as) the "current authors".