From: Marina Brown <marina@surferz.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] More 'Sam I am'
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 17:44:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43EBC5D8.2080608@surferz.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14781.1139501219@piper.nectar.cs.cmu.edu>
Dave Eckhardt wrote:
>>I'm a way out of practice programmer but when i have time
>>i pick at porting some of my favorite games.
>>
>>
>
>Some games would be great!
>
>Last January I was wearing my Plan 9 t-shirt when we had people
>over for Chinese New Year. One of my wife's co-workers asked me
>why I was wearing a shirt commemorating a dead OS.
>
>At this year's party he was a little bored, so I let him play
>Andrey's sokoban... after he was solidly hooked I asked him which
>OS he thought he was using. That was *much* more persuasive than
>my verbal assurances of the year before that Plan 9 is still a
>going concern.
>
>Two which would be cool: there's an open-source re-implementation
>of Sid Meier's Civilization; also, an Empire client might be fun.
>
>Dave Eckhardt
>
>
>
I do admit to booting up plan9 under qemu to run sokoban
and mahjongg. I have played many versions of mahjongg and
i happen to like the plan9 implementation the most ;-)
Perhaps the games should be added to the startup for a default
user to make the OS more appealing to newbies like me ;-)
--- Marina Brown
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-09 22:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-08 4:34 Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-08 5:29 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-08 5:51 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-08 6:14 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-08 6:30 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-08 6:46 ` geoff
2006-02-08 6:50 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-08 17:31 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-08 18:14 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-08 21:28 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-10 9:47 ` Aharon Robbins
2006-02-10 10:45 ` Steve Simon
2006-02-10 14:40 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-10 22:53 ` lucio
2006-02-23 22:52 ` Victor Nazarov
2006-02-10 11:05 ` uriel
2006-02-10 12:59 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-08 18:20 ` uriel
2006-02-08 19:50 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-08 21:35 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-08 21:43 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-02-08 22:57 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-02-09 0:03 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-09 0:17 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-02-09 0:26 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-09 0:43 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-02-09 1:11 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-02-09 1:47 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-02-09 1:56 ` Marina Brown
2006-02-09 2:35 ` Federico Benavento
2006-02-09 7:34 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-09 20:11 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-02-09 16:06 ` Dave Eckhardt
2006-02-09 22:44 ` Marina Brown [this message]
2006-02-09 23:06 ` Bakul Shah
2006-02-10 1:37 ` Micah Stetson
2006-02-08 22:58 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-09 13:04 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-02-10 12:28 Aharon Robbins
2006-02-10 12:51 ` Dave Lukes
2006-02-10 14:04 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-02-10 16:15 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-02-10 17:22 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-02-10 17:41 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-02-10 18:21 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-02-10 20:32 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-11 4:36 ` Marina Brown
2006-02-11 4:39 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-02-11 5:06 ` jmk
2006-02-11 6:52 ` lucio
2006-02-10 15:17 ` uriel
2006-02-10 17:42 ` Bakul Shah
2006-02-10 13:44 quanstro
2006-02-10 13:57 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-10 14:09 quanstro
2006-02-10 14:15 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-10 15:17 ` John Stalker
2006-02-10 15:22 quanstro
2006-02-10 16:49 quanstro
2006-02-11 0:10 quanstro
2006-02-11 3:01 ` jmk
2006-02-11 3:40 quanstro
2006-02-11 4:48 quanstro
2006-02-11 11:22 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-24 0:55 quanstro
2006-02-24 3:46 ` yard-ape
2006-02-24 4:40 ` Lucio De Re
2006-02-25 7:43 ` Serge Gagnon
2006-04-24 18:05 ` Serge Gagnon
2006-02-24 13:36 quanstro
2006-02-24 13:49 ` Anselm R. Garbe
2006-02-24 14:24 ` Gabriel Ivanes
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