15 Sep
2000
15 Sep
'00
1 p.m.
"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@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(a)timharrison.com
http://www.networklevel.com/