An xconq story and question

["Benjamin Brewster" <bcbrewster at hotmail dot com>]

Hi All!

Hi all!  I just subscribed - I've got a story and a question for you all...

When I was a kid, my dad had some UNIX computers at home.  He worksat HP, 
and always had tons of equipment.  On them was this game called xconq that I 
absolutely loved.  Eventually, the computers were replaced, and xconq went 
with them - I forgot about it until last year.  Fast forward fifteen 
years...

I'm now a student at Oregon State University, and I've been working with 
DirectX for awhile now.  So, not knowing that it still existed, I decided to 
start work on a copy of the old xconq as I remembered it, with some new rule 
sets that I had always wanted to see.  I've got the graphics engine pretty 
far along (in DX9), and am working on the models and rules.  (I'll try to 
post a URL of some screenshots soon.)

Eventually, I thought I'd search for the old xconq, and blammo, here you 
guys are!  As I glanced around, I found that the rule set had grown 
enormously, and that it was now quite a complicated game. :)

My question is this: I've named my game Conqueror, and I've included many 
game elements from that old xconq.  Am I going to get in trouble by 
releasing this thing? :)

-Benjamin Brewster

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