old 3b1 UNIX games
If you guys don't mind, I'll plug the 'SDF' which ran on AT&T 3B2s and currently is on DEC Alphas. We've ported most of the old games we had source code for and that includes some of the very rare games like John Gonnerman's 'mdg' (Multi Dungeon Game). From what John has told me only SDF and Solaria BBS have run 'mdg' since it was written in 1990.
We also have 'wanderer' which was written by Stephen Shipway in 1988..
This has been discussed here before. While NASA certainly bought a decent number of early IC's, it was ICBM R&D that was really driving electronics to...
How about a list? If you want to play these games, you can telnet to 'sdf.lonestar.org' and login as 'new' to create your own account.
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I have a hard copy of the second edition of Microdata's manual; those less fortunate can find it...
advent - 350 pt. Collosal Cave adventure aybabtu - sdf's ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US c4 - connect four bj - black jack dinkum - Adventure in Australia dopewars - multi-user virtual urban life greed - how far will your greed take you? hunt - multi-user maze-shoot .. try 'hunt -m' invaders - Space Invaders knight - Knight's Tour matrix life - jpf's life simulator for SDF linux - linux mbuttacre simulator lander - can you land the lunar module (LEM)? mazewar - a System V UNIX version of the clbuttic mdg - John Gonnerman's MultiUser Dungeon Game moon - Jochen Voss's moon-buggy mud - connect to the SDF MultiUser Dungeon nethack - Can you find the Amulet of Yendor and survive? oneliner - SDF onliners .. since 1987 othello - strategy game similar to GO robots - the robots are programmed to get you rogue - Before there was NETHACK there was ROGUE ski - dodge trees and a snowmen while you ski snake - collect $ while avoiding a ferocious snake dissolution - animated dissolution trio tetris - a timed 2 dimensional puzzle tess - beyond the tesseract, an abstract adventure thxmoo - SDF's very own MOO! torus - faster, more intelligent robots are programmed to get you tttt - tic-tac-toc-toe with wraparound edges wanderer - an excellent stategic puzzle-adventure game worm - you are a worm that eats numbers to and becomes unweildy zombies - the zombies are programmed to get you
I recently bought, cheap, second-hand, an old issue of a British astronomy magazine. It had...
Most games use k (up) "vi" keys for h (left) l (right) direction j (down)
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