From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FROM,HTML_MESSAGE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 13676 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2023 14:42:48 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 1 Feb 2023 14:42:48 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B9FE4245D; Thu, 2 Feb 2023 00:42:42 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-pg1-f169.google.com (mail-pg1-f169.google.com [209.85.215.169]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1B82B4243F for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2023 00:42:35 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-pg1-f169.google.com with SMTP id 141so12676704pgc.0 for ; Wed, 01 Feb 2023 06:42:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=KB0Db+ffCF9vI8r5FqD1X5MSvkO2VEMvQLkCCEQFd4E=; b=ckaGCoAizb0SW/ernSFO+5lYvTS67F8EHl12SxjFVn8rqpeA5DUBab+VPq5/xeIlay PEntHHtGtQZIS89UQ7kMhIK+2U0toZ+XyIhYiOuSHBbgPTbbNdmMUM50mAxDgXaBkn1q +B8K1PgavuOyBVDrGcKnKaAvm7yQvNATmDSc/ZjFdDKYjhX3YikejtWyNMYgwtdZ1CBV YjtsnAGNPQ9YHdODFG84XiM3On7nNd10ujkfOZIlVfQa1xkzCbOoLWxcRsUTqQVGTZ4s Z6Dit6KOcdxa56ci8KCy4SVzbN07/zIgjLde2j4Sd7l/m1xTggSfCwAFt+YqMa8DEOq9 JxkQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id :reply-to; bh=KB0Db+ffCF9vI8r5FqD1X5MSvkO2VEMvQLkCCEQFd4E=; b=NQGNks8Lg7pUk+qwjqqN409J2j4WczzBmiotd9Z+BrrEqcp78w4IE5rSFZkjVAJk++ 9sO1u9XJvF+ur/p77IqgTIMPuNZ+6lWjKMR5YRoUsVvjimWr+tYkiQQBCqz8Ui/Wnjb2 RQXLGZMCxx+6h+kpEk0/HbcqWbTHfVgY7fUnx2A7AjSaVxpDwtqNJhLSdhlrs3zNB6Pc MCXzhCpsXl80IoWLfj/v86yENSkFKtrogQ8WuUSMNqdZwyhsiAtNmuXkaBzRmGRaRtOo BS7Bgb6purKP0bVx+PMVvvOh/AdRSRB4qjHmYlNealkkF35/xmVZPnpdiUQDqbNEdjdn PXdw== X-Gm-Message-State: AO0yUKWhHvTXFoRWRRPQnG1j2CqmMWOEiQ/2jLhGOujAU5FeutFaJZtF 8k+sDK02J1s69Pm0luymviRWgbAaIDEhx0a7wKo= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AK7set/60OYXFp7n/WuQ65iF5hBr+IspO5aoHq5UwGwSjqr1e59WMd26Vb7AOcsJz2CZG4euJd4efjpWXvsM6sv4W9A= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6a00:14c8:b0:57f:a5e6:20fd with SMTP id w8-20020a056a0014c800b0057fa5e620fdmr609774pfu.11.1675262494103; Wed, 01 Feb 2023 06:41:34 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Rich Salz Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2023 09:41:22 -0500 Message-ID: To: Will Senn Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000dde0d205f3a471af" Message-ID-Hash: NYPFYD6TQUIOAG5S53IZHM7HL2VJYHMI X-Message-ID-Hash: NYPFYD6TQUIOAG5S53IZHM7HL2VJYHMI X-MailFrom: rich.salz@gmail.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Unix game origins - stories similar to Crowther's Adventure List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: --000000000000dde0d205f3a471af Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" "Hunt the Wumpus" came from the People's Computer Company in San Francisco. Wikipedia article on him is nice; we corresponded a bit. CHM has all the old PCC newsletters, it seems, at https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102661095 What about Peter Langston's empire? It was distributed as object code, but someone (CMU?) decompiled it to C, and we built it on Pyramid's. It created its world by having meteors smash into it to distribute the trace and heavy metals IIRC. On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 9:32 PM Will Senn wrote: > All, > > I just saw this over on dragonflydigest.com: > > https://0j2zj3i75g.unbox.ifarchive.org/0j2zj3i75g/Article.html > > It's an article from 2007 about the history and genesis of the Colossal > Cave Adventure game - replete with lots of pics. What I found fascinating > was that the game is based on the author's actual cave explorations vis a > vis the real Colossal Cave. Gives you a whole new appreciation for the game. > > My question is do y'all know of any interesting backstories about games > that were developed and or gained traction on unix? I like some of the > early stuff (wumpus, in particular), but know nothing of origins. Or, was > it all just mindless entertainment designed to wile away the time? > Spacewar, I know a bit about, but not the story, if there is one... Maybe, > somebody needed to develop a new program to simulate the use of fuel in > rockets against gravity and... so... lunar lander was born? I dunno, as > somebody who grew up playing text games, I'd like to think there was more > behind the fun that mindless entertainment... So, how about it, was your > officemate at bell labs tooling away nights writing a game that had the > whole office addicted to playing it, while little did they know the > characters were characterizations of his annoying neighbors? > > If you don't mind, if you take the thread off into the distance and away > from unix game origins, please rename the thread quickly :). > > Thanks, > > Will > > > --000000000000dde0d205f3a471af Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
"Hunt the Wumpus" came from the People'= s Computer Company in San Francisco.=C2=A0 Wikipedia article on him is nice= ; we corresponded a bit.
CHM has all the old PCC newsletters, it = seems, at https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102661095<= /div>

What about Peter Langston's empire? It was dis= tributed as object code, but someone (CMU?) decompiled it to C, and we buil= t it on Pyramid's. It created its world by having meteors smash into it= to distribute the trace and heavy metals IIRC.

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On Tue,= Jan 31, 2023 at 9:32 PM Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:
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All,

I just saw this over on dragonflydigest.com:

https://0j2zj3i75g.unbox.ifarchive.org/0j2zj3i75g/A= rticle.html

It's an article from 2007 about the history and genesis of the Colossal Cave Adventure game - replete with lots of pics. What I found fascinating was that the game is based on the author's actual cave explorations vis a vis the real Colossal Cave. Gives you a whole new appreciation for the game.

My question is do y'all know of any interesting backstories about games that were developed and or gained traction on unix? I like some of the early stuff (wumpus, in particular), but know nothing of origins. Or, was it all just mindless entertainment designed to wile away the time? Spacewar, I know a bit about, but not the story, if there is one... Maybe, somebody needed to develop a new program to simulate the use of fuel in rockets against gravity and... so... lunar lander was born? I dunno, as somebody who grew up playing text games, I'd like to think there was more behind th= e fun that mindless entertainment... So, how about it, was your officemate at bell labs tooling away nights writing a game that had the whole office addicted to playing it, while little did they know the characters were characterizations of his annoying neighbors?

If you don't mind, if you take the thread off into the distance and away from unix game origins, please rename the thread quickly :).

Thanks,

Will
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