From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 9 12:38:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 243D037B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:38:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A766D43E3B for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:38:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 14933 invoked by uid 1000); 9 Oct 2002 19:38:33 -0000 Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:38:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson To: Terry Lambert Cc: Mark Murray , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: src/games bikeshed time. In-Reply-To: <3DA47CC6.AE5F1FBF@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > On "tradition": > > I actually think the main reason for maintaining them is "nostalgia"; > most of us who learned how to program on shared computing resources > remember the games as one of the things that sparked our initial > interest in the computers. People who learned to program in this > environment, in college computer labs, at 3 AM, with 10 other people, > learned different lessons than the people who learned to program, all > alone, in the dark, on their own PC, in their parent's basement. Ah, yes. The all night hack was around long before eXtReMe programming. > Us > "old guys" would claim we learned better lessons: like how to play > nice with others. Or how to: rsh friendbox 'rm -f /tmp/.X11-unix/socket' right in the middle of an xtrek game. > That said... "rain" is a neat display hack. It's at least as good as > the ASCII art VGA library. I probably would not miss anything else, > or anything that wasn't multiplayer, very much, if at all... it looks > like an axeing may be in order. I can't remember, but there was some way to slow down a pseudo terminal -- stty baudrate isn't it. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message