From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 63617e50 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 02:11:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 7D8B29C6D4; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 12:11:22 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 368D79BCCF; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 12:11:07 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: minnie.tuhs.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key; unprotected) header.d=google.com header.i=@google.com header.b="FY/6a+Ov"; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 5B7029BCCF; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 12:11:04 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-ot1-f53.google.com (mail-ot1-f53.google.com [209.85.210.53]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2EEF19B57D for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 12:11:03 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-ot1-f53.google.com with SMTP id 66so10852574otd.9 for ; Sun, 08 Dec 2019 18:11:03 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=h1P7E7ce1awSFpl+FkK+y60iNZDeOALTpmXkNTYPox0=; b=FY/6a+OvavFTDcR5n0E9amUYiYEAEdaSg+hM5BE0pzSkhePS1NvBg4zM7G7TozFIiL FFR2YZjueUwvk+SEuAap0fjS83cwf6S8XTNR57biMZFYWoLvBTNaPh+SBmZqnAAI48FI 3by2HbGHBXyzhIvOg5vnll4AJQIbH9jtAvVmmaqCZE4CwPCqOmb3gy0qTJYEhS8wMicM DMxyosunCEswaWqGqyNpXK35vKxgA8bdBlxoRXRgO0ceQTACN3EkynaXrt9U+gwyzqFU dhAYGXojKpIiHNbR+XWtDIHKAovTpeBND0AkOCmHwq55y/UU/rWD7zY8WxnBxhp/mMT5 /Esw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=h1P7E7ce1awSFpl+FkK+y60iNZDeOALTpmXkNTYPox0=; b=bPr/0fFvjH9WlK9Br+LQSGoD760EYq0jBwvHUaFWXuS9a/opdO8g2GuOMrSMZczFUy 5tvAKZF5NtCjthsyiQfhtMRXzDSGh9nGvVf3iBzhqDKz7GuhXLgGkuwSBcIQN4ufqP2A y+DmqHNtTccIVPjPywkCq6oJcOTwfpY8eN5HFNDOd7SSI7lmHz2fWr3tHuvDBShvXFZq p0kofSY4Qg4ptZLq5D+xXiadXsSjvnedRwqusEVUaEkA9tXBaNW5wFo3weeh0lAv+LFe L3mUQJNR5Pm6b9jjmqUTsT0P+y0629TTrgoMlgW1sNa5bQb+HyUkYdhOIegNpdNUcfMf DoFw== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAWGdm2mmVf6Vowa8qN6ICl47l1Z6FtdSxnT/6jFAtzhNi/G53Rp J30Xd0JqCq/ArgCIODAtPIPVJarXMELXFTlh4zd/KA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqwJ3nB6sE1Yc+Rq9zCLmEUDRpmWGMDKpoCkoD3VFf5muomL1rA/Lx9JezdJ19o11J0RKu26jpIeM/59sz8pPIA= X-Received: by 2002:a9d:7394:: with SMTP id j20mr20115632otk.273.1575857462341; Sun, 08 Dec 2019 18:11:02 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3d1053b0debfc5a79267860e058b1d07e7686811@webmail.yaccman.com> <25D66740-7832-4BE9-877E-7F4C905B4195@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2019 18:10:51 -0800 Message-ID: To: Rob Pike Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [TUHS] Gaming on early Unix X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: Ken Thompson via TUHS Reply-To: Ken Thompson Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" 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 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 wi= th 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 wrote= : >> >> >> >> > On Dec 8, 2019, at 5:35 PM, Ken Thompson via TUHS 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 =E2=80=9CHunt the Wumpus=E2=80=9D from the back of an off-the-shelf = puzzle book? I thought it was by Gregory Yob (per the Creative Computing B= ASIC Computer Games book=E2=80=94Wumpus may have been in More BASIC Compute= r Games), and, well, it=E2=80=99s about dodecahedronal geometry, which seem= s 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 t= he early 1970s would have known about. >> >> Adam