From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Gaming on early Unix
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2019 13:03:18 +1100 [thread overview]
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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
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-track
tapes.
-rob
On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 11:47 AM Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > On Dec 8, 2019, at 5:35 PM, Ken Thompson via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
> 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 “Hunt the Wumpus” from the back of an off-the-shelf puzzle book? I
> thought it was by Gregory Yob (per the Creative Computing BASIC Computer
> Games book—Wumpus may have been in More BASIC Computer Games), and, well,
> it’s about dodecahedronal geometry, which seems 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 the early 1970s would have
> known about.
>
> Adam
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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
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 [this message]
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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