I often find the historical and archaeological aspects more important, this is a wonderful way to start the day.
Reviving Classic Unix Games: A 20-Year Journey Through Software Archaeology
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#12Conquer was an amazing game, I hope someone puts it online so I can pay again!
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#13There was a Curses version of Trek called "universe" that I was obsessed with, back in the day, but I've never been able to find it again.
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#14How were the contributions by Richard Caley handled? "The legal reality was harsh: Richard’s contributions to Conquer couldn’t be relicensed. The university couldn’t help contact heirs due to privacy laws."
The notion that everything had to be relicensed under the GPL “so it could be properly preserved and packaged for modern Linux distributions” seems pretty silly.
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#15When I was a kid, early 80s, my mom's job had bought some IBM computer. Not PCs, but some kind of large computer in a room to help with accounting / book keeping. Terminals with green text screens were attached to this computer. They had text based menus, and somewhere in this menu system, there were games. One game was a kind of horse race I remember, where digits were racing from left to right on the screen. Another was probably a lunar lander, but memory is lacking. Can someone tell from this description what kind of computer this was, and what OS it was running?
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#16When I was a kid, early 80s, my mom's job had bought some IBM computer. Not PCs, but some kind of large computer in a room to help with accounting / book keeping. Terminals with green text screens were attached to this computer. They had text based menus, and somewhere in this menu system, there were games. One game was a kind of horse race I remember, where digits were racing from left to right on the screen. Anothe…
IBM System/34, System/36, or System/38 perhaps? Those are IBM's minicomputers available in that timeframe.
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#17When I was a kid, early 80s, my mom's job had bought some IBM computer. Not PCs, but some kind of large computer in a room to help with accounting / book keeping. Terminals with green text screens were attached to this computer. They had text based menus, and somewhere in this menu system, there were games. One game was a kind of horse race I remember, where digits were racing from left to right on the screen. Anothe…
System/34 or System/36, the game was RACE. Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYRuTHz-wwk
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#18When I was a kid, early 80s, my mom's job had bought some IBM computer. Not PCs, but some kind of large computer in a room to help with accounting / book keeping. Terminals with green text screens were attached to this computer. They had text based menus, and somewhere in this menu system, there were games. One game was a kind of horse race I remember, where digits were racing from left to right on the screen. Anothe…
Unfamiliar but probably System/34 or System/36 running SSP (System Support Program) with IBM 5250 series terminals.
Unsure about the games. Here’s an early lunar lander:
https://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~storer/LunarLander/LunarLander....
Another Lunar version:
https://undefinedvalue.com/lunar-for-c-and-rust.html
System/36 guide:
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_ibmsystem3rogrammingWi...
Possible source for games in David H. Ahl in his book 101 BASIC Computer Games.
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#19There use to be a set of games which were available for SunOS and may be Solaris, including a flight simulator with wired frame graphics, and Sun even had released a book about these games at that time(may be early 1990's). Are they also covered by these? Anyone remember a flight simulator with wireframe graphics available Unices?
ACM, Sabre?
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#20Nice to see this happening, FWIW: I uploaded a very old Star Trek Game I think from 1973. I got it from the Coherent OS people. You can get it by issuing these commands: curl 'gopher://sdf.org/0/users/jmccue/repository/trek-73.tar.gz' -o trek-73.tar.gz curl 'gopher://sdf.org/0/users/jmccue/repository/trek-73.tar.gz.asc' -o trek-73.tar.gz.asc and my gpg key in case you want to validate the download: curl 'gopher://sdf…
Trek lives in every OpenBSD install. And OFC with any Basic interpreter running the original game.
I translated a Zmachine port into Spanish, too. ZTrek.