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 8d621907 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 02:20:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 867FB9C706; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 12:20:11 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3434C9BDD5; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 12:19:58 +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="qughGPjE"; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id B33559BDD5; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 12:19:56 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-oi1-f169.google.com (mail-oi1-f169.google.com [209.85.167.169]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 393739B57D for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 12:19:56 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-oi1-f169.google.com with SMTP id c16so5005225oic.3 for ; Sun, 08 Dec 2019 18:19:56 -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=GruRPJZCBI1t8w3BZAiY8BBBwcJBry32pwpS8x3JBCE=; b=qughGPjExBwyuk5t1iOmzts/n8piNdFfpRvjcpmSduUWNneg+GEw9irBI5Pcm5YFxT 3UutCzdQAIZp/WmyC1BB/CKKuj288n38DENdOwtcVK40I5ZQp/aCh4fGwmKm4BhQXX1N g4J0KrI8AVIucpzwN/Ym8ynzduz3AcVsfkuk9cybiC+xan8hYJX+8CP8DpDk/iDv56Et 4hhHVtPzCkhChg+HCqvMJORyZLlgLicMnbZ2lNMaW3u6Hml2y/GSgwbmpv7++mhh2wht YJ6SoCG6QqmFEH6nyO/Jm/jVhWzW4MP5SypDIeYLsf8I1B3CLq7BlntT5IH9RvnihJWQ x3iA== 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=GruRPJZCBI1t8w3BZAiY8BBBwcJBry32pwpS8x3JBCE=; b=GzigGndgjnD11veW5wVb9chzOSAAb8M08rnbeybugxcVnrkfU69/rFijESU8+W1uJn 1662etA/7/TNLQYeg2WGxDfY/Y93UMh9XbNXTHMm8Jcg345dJyJwAwARIHbYR0OuffYz elgg2Qzi0dTnyXSTwQZ2DD8kn0vkU0OXdlCCSUNry9oP0kuvsLRmXxuc5L7l0jA4967I W0+VRfr8MBpQ0Z9Hu2Qjk8gE7s04SsNCNe0Obi1BZg350J8xzhDCwAyAalOW6okokMpK /9gEU3GuX5o1dHbNeReefgE1nxii/pdUdorsULamqx2DyZU2Xs6G/loL9NU80vmuiuPE IQBg== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAVENXVjOECBQ/oNWPYcruohJgQfYdLBrRkjtmbw87yxhB5aTWCA TsIR//Vj4a8DXH2M+PppH0Yg/L9cu1FtF2T9tqSOYg== X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqyVqDoHeGksNVUzmzJ77pe18GLDsTTURfccYzIDG0kHBtGQjOp/KNa/vfFIYDYa8qIVmpqGANOMF31Bnt/28Lw= X-Received: by 2002:aca:c786:: with SMTP id x128mr3083543oif.2.1575857995386; Sun, 08 Dec 2019 18:19:55 -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 18:19:44 -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" space war. (old age) On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 6:15 PM Rob Pike wrote: > > Space war? > > -rob > > > On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 1:11 PM Ken Thompson wrote: >> >> 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 H= ugh Redelmeier. It was a version of tic-tac-toe that played only a single l= ine, and would always win. If it didn't like your move, it changed it. If y= our move was a good one, it would change its previous move. And it did this= with 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-tr= ack tapes. >> > >> > -rob >> > >> > >> > On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 11:47 AM Adam Thornton wr= ote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > 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-she= lf puzzle book? I thought it was by Gregory Yob (per the Creative Computin= g BASIC Computer Games book=E2=80=94Wumpus may have been in More BASIC Comp= uter Games), and, well, it=E2=80=99s about dodecahedronal geometry, which s= eems 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 i= n the early 1970s would have known about. >> >> >> >> Adam