UNIX and games (was: DEC computer labs)

From: Tim Harrison <harrison_at_timharrison.com>
Date: Fri Sep 15 12:00:25 2000

"R. D. Davis" wrote:

> Is this a sign that I'm getting old ebcause I can remember when any
> reasonable UNIX box had the standard assortment of games installed on
> it, which were often distributed with the O.S. and found in the
> printed man pages, like Wumpus, Adventure, Hangman, etc.? Such are
> the problems of the Linuxization and SCOization of *NIX. What is the
> world coming to? :-(

I might not have as much experience with older stuff as most, but it
seems to me that those standards are adhered to, at least on the
machines I run here:

<taken from my SuSE machine>

harrison_at_persuasion:/usr/games/bin > ls
adventure bcd factor monop ppt rot13 trek
arithmetic caesar fish morse primes sail wargames
atc canfield gomoku number quiz snake worm
backgammon cfscores hangman phantasia rain snscore worms
banner cribbage hunt pig random teachgammon wump
battlestar dm mille pom robots tetris-bsd


My wife wouldn't run any type of UNIX if she couldn't play "adventure".
And that would seriously limit my computer buying abilities.

Come to think of it, my IRIX box doesn't have wumpus. Nor my NeXT.
Ugh!

-- 
Tim Harrison
Network Engineer
harrison_at_timharrison.com
http://www.networklevel.com/
Received on Fri Sep 15 2000 - 12:00:25 BST

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