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compatible operating systems by Ilan Raab and Dani Katz. It is similar in concept to

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's 1982 arcade video game ''

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''. The objective is to fence off sections of a playfield while avoiding bouncing balls.

Legacy

''Xonix'' was popular at the

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, where Dmitry Pavlovsky, one of the original developers of ''

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'', was a computer engineer. Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov wrote their own version of ''Xonix'' called ''Antix''.Gerasimov, Vadim
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It was first developed for the

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and then ported to MS-DOS by Pavlovsky and

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References

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A C64 port of XONIX, called Zolyx, released by Firebird in 1987.
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