Since the first release of Xconq in 1987, it has benefited from the work and ideas of literally hundreds of people, first at the University of Utah, then worldwide.
Special thanks must go to Eric Muehle, a tireless source of ideas,
advice, and playtesting at Utah; Greg Fisher, who added many good things
to make 5.4; and Robert Forsman, who did a great deal of work for 5.5.
Eric Ziegast and Alan Clegg have been essential to maintaining the old
Xconq mailing list and archives at ftp.uu.net.
For 7.0, Massimo Campostrini deserves special note for contributing the PS printing code, X11 color image display code, X11 new game dialogs, xshowimf, and a number of library modules, as well as many other fixes and enhancements.
Other contributors have been (in alphabetical order): Jim Anderson, Tom Baker, Ed Boston, Mark Bradakis, Alain Brossard, Richard Buonanno, Germano Caronni, Harold Carr, Ben Chase, Chris Christensen, Kevin Deford, Dan Dickey, Fred Douglis, Miles Duke, Barry Eynon, Doug Ghormley, Thomas Granvold, David Harr, Scott Herod, Eiji("A.J.") Hirai, Kurt Hoyt, Jeff Kelley, Bob Kessler, Dan Koppenheffer, Jed Krohnfeldt, Rick Ledoux, Brian Lewis, Sandra Loosemore, Michael Lounsbery, Steve McInerney, Eric Mehlhaff, Jimmy Miklavcic, Tim Moore, Scott Mueller, Keir Novik, Julian Onions, Dave Pare, Stephen Peters, Chris Peterson, Mohammad Pourheidari, Dan Reading, Tom Richards, Joel Rives, Jay Scott, John Shovic, Josh Siegel, Leigh Stoller, Ravi Subrahmanyam, Cimarron Taylor, Spencer Thomas, John Tonry, Rich van Gaasbeeck, Henry Ware, Grant Weiler, Jeff Young, and many others.
The standard Xconq distribution includes several packages incorporated as-is: Ad2C script, by George Ferguson and others, SelFile library, by Michiharu `NinjaTerm' Ariza and Erik M. van der Poel, Infinity Windoid WDEF, by Troy Gaul, libcurses library, by Larry Gensch and Robert Zimmerman, texi2html script, by Lionel Cons, texinfo.tex, by Robert Chassell.
Thanks also to the University of Utah, Apple Computer, Inc., and Cygnus Support, who have all contributed machine resources that helped in the development of Xconq.