15 Sep
2000
15 Sep
'00
8:41 a.m.
"R. D. Davis" wrote:
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Aaron Nabil wrote:
[re: Wumpus]
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!).
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?
CTRL-ALT-DEL
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