From: "A. P. Garcia" <a.phillip.garcia@gmail.com>
To: Gabriel Diaz <gdiaz@qswarm.com>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Gaming on early Unix
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 09:48:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFCBnZt8Nay9KTf_eWKzv68HmX1MoXc2v5Tz_BkvJoef4vQcLQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFCBnZv3R7N-i-Wj1hc29WBp49r2ny_RucjTYNODwgqdFy5Zew@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 9:23 AM A. P. Garcia <a.phillip.garcia@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 5:52 AM Gabriel Diaz <gdiaz@qswarm.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > Source code has been published of some early games.
> >
> > Were those games playable on Unix machines at the time? What was your favourite game?
> >
> >
> > https://kryptonradio.com/2019/04/18/zork-source-code-presumed-lost-forever-has-been-uploaded-to-github/
> >
> >
> > Gabi
>
> Ken Thompson has made a number of significant contributions to
> computer chess, but I'm not familiar with chess programs that ran on
> early Unix. The earliest and most influential game that originated on
> Unix was probably rogue, which was included in 4.2 BSD. Another early
> and influential game was Colossal Cave Adventure, but that didn't run
> on Unix, AFAIK.
I just remembered another one called Hunt the Wumpus. From Wikipedia:
"A version in C, written in November 1973 by Ken Thompson, creator of
the Unix operating system, was released in 1974; a later C version can
still be found in the bsdgames package on modern BSD and Linux
operating systems."
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_the_Wumpus]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-06 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-06 10:45 Gabriel Diaz
2019-12-06 11:01 ` Steve Nickolas
2019-12-06 14:23 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-12-06 14:48 ` A. P. Garcia [this message]
2019-12-08 7:48 ` arnold
2019-12-08 19:54 ` Clem Cole
2019-12-06 16:19 ` ron
2019-12-06 16:39 ` Richard Salz
2019-12-06 16:54 ` Dan Cross
2019-12-09 0:05 ` Steve Johnson
2019-12-09 0:35 ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2019-12-09 0:46 ` Adam Thornton
2019-12-09 2:03 ` Rob Pike
2019-12-09 2:10 ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2019-12-09 2:15 ` Rob Pike
2019-12-09 2:19 ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2019-12-09 8:41 ` Gabriel Diaz
2019-12-09 11:17 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2019-12-09 8:40 ` Naveen Nathan
2019-12-06 17:24 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-12-06 17:58 ` Dr Iain Maoileoin
2019-12-06 22:12 ` ron
2019-12-07 0:04 ` Rob Pike
2019-12-07 1:22 ` Adam Thornton
2019-12-07 1:28 ` Adam Thornton
2019-12-10 0:30 Doug McIlroy
2019-12-10 5:08 ` Adam Thornton
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