UNIX and games (was: DEC computer labs)

From: Bob Brown <bbrown_at_harper.cc.il.us>
Date: Fri Sep 15 12:20:46 2000

Actually, my alltime favorite text-based game was on VMS..called
conquest (multiplayer spacewar...totally awsome). Thankfully, someone
recently converted it to run on unix (since I no longer have access to a
VMS system)..so now I can run it on one of my unix boxes .... even my laptop!

-Bob



>On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Aaron Nabil wrote:
>[re: Wumpus]
> >
> > What did it run on?
>
>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? :-(
>
>Of course, as I've said many times before, if you want to play the ultimate
>text-only adventure game, play VAX/VMS - if you win, you get to play UNIX,
>if you lose, you get stuck with some random Microsoft OS and an evil elf
>appears out of nowhere, steals all your gold and suddenly the magic word,
>XYZZY, no longer works. Now, what do you want to do?
>
>--
>R. D. Davis "The best way to gain a true understanding of
>rdd_at_perqlogic.com Wile E. Coyote on the Roadrunner cartoons is to
>http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd fly, head-first, off a horse into something like
>410-744-4900 a fence or a tree; trust me, this works." --RDD

Bob Brown
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