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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,HTML_MESSAGE,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 41914b42 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 02:16:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 24EBD9BF80; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 12:16:08 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E34319BCCF; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 12:15:52 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: minnie.tuhs.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key; unprotected) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b="L43gbEfl"; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 81A239BCCF; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 12:15:51 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-vs1-f49.google.com (mail-vs1-f49.google.com [209.85.217.49]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ECF229B57D for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 12:15:50 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-vs1-f49.google.com with SMTP id f8so9194865vsq.8 for ; Sun, 08 Dec 2019 18:15:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=ZGL+4Ea1a8W7demYdh/Ek/PRFXJgoCqZaj2NCBky4hw=; b=L43gbEflMWpuUyTkCtj4zhaTFmbVpiIZvIUq01tvn5gdcTL/LQiZz691pbtrRkbDCR XuUnbOxWdFtTo7K7xfMPfuHS3I8RCDBaSJDxy9vStMDTQHZmGcE9aCVcX2xVIp3beUn8 xzSP7lNG8Cdes7XHUHq9qmKB4y43zw06W/55ridtv2rZNjPk5tDA62WWNRC0yiGsFi5h To8fz3o4cOtMrmCQoVRGzK2zCS1teWSIGUeQI25JfyeAIUUZoKXEa5MtI2hhHriS3ke6 GvCqPEbtDPLkky2jqU/CJ9IwsNR1vGD8tB2yxePnYG9M3qPkaDmyz1hBe2LugyEoW19f oGhQ== 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; bh=ZGL+4Ea1a8W7demYdh/Ek/PRFXJgoCqZaj2NCBky4hw=; b=eNt1oDWd+8CYBxnWUnQhjXzRnoXWE3RAYbAQJ4XD8tLtgEG8o1/9VutyzZiNRdJm3P XFShFw8bE7Dj5OtOYkcRyD2y3MnoudkbE+nPnP5zBW5UIf5xd20Qqbt6FSizo8l43Hgv G4Y9wHSYrhAWT87v40zy1Oi+4nMRDJoZ1MvU1QvGTUUMSwTTHekis7yYqGoUh7U43x3N 8qm5yjKI0wTX+DdpgjkmUuYkIGt1AKds+FvxDSXSXPWqBuaLA/EqpT+72mft0JHT7An8 I765WOXZZiFrglVUPzltiPNM7Q+iWnndNnmaVIf/bjyOiv0041dGi4PvFFL0JUruvUf7 QmqQ== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAUiiIZhhSTcPPiahP7w9pmvtFsLyK4dgaQQuM/urhHD7fJg08p2 yHN2UOA6MZr4MvrNHfFA2SY7BQlbiwUoEx0whhCIdJ5X X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqxdHNFHfJHx2uYlwtr8jC+IyFJt3GFchOp4GdgRNCRmS33A3iTprcUO+CpzqAyBwnEGaKBIhyOTJbCMnPM/Tpo= X-Received: by 2002:a67:f349:: with SMTP id p9mr18990858vsm.53.1575857750054; Sun, 08 Dec 2019 18:15:50 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3d1053b0debfc5a79267860e058b1d07e7686811@webmail.yaccman.com> <25D66740-7832-4BE9-877E-7F4C905B4195@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: From: Rob Pike Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2019 13:15:39 +1100 Message-ID: To: Ken Thompson Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000689c5e05993bf9ad" 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: , Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --000000000000689c5e05993bf9ad Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 > Hugh Redelmeier. It was a version of tic-tac-toe that played only a singl= e > line, and would always win. If it didn't like your move, it changed it. I= f > 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 > 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 =E2=80=9CHunt the Wumpus=E2=80=9D from the back of an off-the-shel= f puzzle book? I > thought it was by Gregory Yob (per the Creative Computing BASIC Computer > Games book=E2=80=94Wumpus may have been in More BASIC Computer Games), an= d, well, > it=E2=80=99s about dodecahedronal geometry, which seems as if it would on= ly 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 > --000000000000689c5e05993bf9ad Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Space war?

-rob


On = Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 1:11 PM Ken Thompson <ken@google.com> 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 <robpike@gmail.com> 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 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 i= t.
>
> 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 =E2=80=9CHunt the Wumpus=E2=80=9D from the back of an off-the-= shelf puzzle book?=C2=A0 I thought it was by Gregory Yob (per the Creative = Computing BASIC Computer Games book=E2=80=94Wumpus may have been in More BA= SIC Computer Games), and, well, it=E2=80=99s about dodecahedronal geometry,= which seems as if it would only have been found in a rather rarefied puzzl= e book, but does seem like the sort of Platonic solid a computer-programmin= g nerd in the early 1970s would have known about.
>>
>> Adam
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