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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.
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>
>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
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>
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