Space war?

-rob


On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 1:11 PM Ken Thompson <ken@google.com> wrote:

> my favorite is the original star wars on the pdp-1.
> i think it came from lincoln labs, but i played it
> in 1965-1966 at stanford.
> a very good replica was done on unix by dmr.
>
> On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 6:03 PM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > My favorite (other than Nuke the Smileys) was written at the UofT by
> Hugh Redelmeier. It was a version of tic-tac-toe that played only a single
> line, and would always win. If it didn't like your move, it changed it. If
> your move was a good one, it would change its previous move. And it did
> this with lovely little messages. It was fun watching people get upset at
> it.
> >
> > I don't know where the source is nowadays. I may have it somewhere, or
> it might be ferric dust long since swept up from a cupboard of failed
> 9-track tapes.
> >
> > -rob
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 11:47 AM Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> > On Dec 8, 2019, at 5:35 PM, Ken Thompson via TUHS <
> tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > in the early 70s, noone had seen a computer.
> >> > i had a terminal at home and we were giving
> >> > a dinner party. i wrote several games for the
> >> > party from the back of an off-the-shelf puzzle
> >> > book.
> >> >
> >> > the ones i remember:
> >> >
> >> > moo (bulls + cows)
> >> > hunt the wumpus (move or shoot)
> >> > learning tic-tac-toe
> >> > i can guess your number (divide and conquer)
> >> > jealous husbands (similar to fox hen corn)
> >> > nim
> >> >
> >> > i think there were more. they went over
> >> > pretty well at the party.
> >> >
> >> > i think this was 1969 or 1970.
> >>
> >>
> >> Clarification, please.
> >>
> >> Was “Hunt the Wumpus” from the back of an off-the-shelf puzzle book?  I
> thought it was by Gregory Yob (per the Creative Computing BASIC Computer
> Games book—Wumpus may have been in More BASIC Computer Games), and, well,
> it’s about dodecahedronal geometry, which seems as if it would only have
> been found in a rather rarefied puzzle book, but does seem like the sort of
> Platonic solid a computer-programming nerd in the early 1970s would have
> known about.
> >>
> >> Adam
>