"R. D. Davis" wrote:
>
> 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? :-(
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/games/strategy/
It's in there! BTW the first game I ever played was Adventure. I was supposed
to be learning BASIC on a PDP 11 (huge rack) but it was later moved over to
a pyramid. I managed to get an A in BASIC but I can't ever remember taking
the course. I do remember fixing other peoples syntax, it interrupted my game
(usually when a gnome appeared, I remember killing many a greasy gnome!).
> 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?
CTRL-ALT-DEL
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Received on Fri Sep 15 2000 - 12:41:56 BST