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Port details on branch 2026Q2
xasteroids X11 based asteroids style arcade game
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Maintainer: fuz@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-06-22 09:33:18
Last Update: 2026-06-26 12:14:35
Commit Hash: 10bb0ad
License: XASTEROIDS
Description:
X11 based asteroids style arcade game. Make big rocks into little ones. This port is based on version 5.0 of xasteroids. The following changes have been made: - Improved cursor-hiding. - Arrow keys. - ANSI-C cleanups. - Use usleep() instead of a delay loop. - Add prototypes. - Reformat man page.
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Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. bin/xasteroids
  2. share/man/man6/xasteroids.6.gz
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/xasteroids-5.0_5/catalog.mk
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/xasteroids-5.0_5/LICENSE
  5. /usr/local/share/licenses/xasteroids-5.0_5/XASTEROIDS
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • xasteroids>0:games/xasteroids
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/games/xasteroids/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install games/xasteroids
  • pkg install xasteroids
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: xasteroids
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
SHA256 (xasteroids.sh.Z) = 7ea2f9d7bec924c951700b8eb01124a08846ffebd334b20558e1a37730b26cac SIZE (xasteroids.sh.Z) = 18700

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Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  2. xext.pc : x11/libXext
Runtime dependencies:
  1. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  2. xext.pc : x11/libXext
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
games_xasteroids
USES:
localbase:ldflags xorg
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Master Sites:
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  1. ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/x11/x.org/contrib/../R5contrib/
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Number of commits found: 2

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
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5.0_5
26 Jun 2026 12:14:35
commit hash: 10bb0ad11e811fed94100413f36a97b19f410e98commit hash: 10bb0ad11e811fed94100413f36a97b19f410e98commit hash: 10bb0ad11e811fed94100413f36a97b19f410e98commit hash: 10bb0ad11e811fed94100413f36a97b19f410e98 files touched by this commit
Robert Clausecker (fuz) search for other commits by this committer
games/xasteroids: render the game playable

 - switch to the usleep() based delay code
 - remove the old, no longer functional delay-loop path
 - configure the default delay to 16384 µs, which seems to be playable

MFH:		2026Q2
(cherry picked from commit dda26e666584fa233a07c911685cbe5caddd8049)
5.0_4
22 Jun 2026 09:31:38
commit hash: 5e247d80ab95ccddc8f0d346a582216ad6ac6654commit hash: 5e247d80ab95ccddc8f0d346a582216ad6ac6654commit hash: 5e247d80ab95ccddc8f0d346a582216ad6ac6654commit hash: 5e247d80ab95ccddc8f0d346a582216ad6ac6654 files touched by this commit
Robert Clausecker (fuz) search for other commits by this committer
games/xasteroids: fix build, cleanup

 - replace shar EXTRACT_CMD hack with custom do-extract target
   to fix the build (failed since EXTRACT_ENV was introduced)
 - define LICENSE and follow license obligations
 - clean up port Makefile, pet portlint
 - regenerate patches
 - add prototypes to source code
 - adopt this unmaintained port

Upstream has been contacted about the project license in the hope of
the project perhaps receiving a more conventional one.

MFH:		2026Q2
(cherry picked from commit 7c211da31554ef159a893171ac42a29555b6fc31)

Number of commits found: 2