From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 12 20:24:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE97D37B718 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:24:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA04069; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:21:27 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAifaG0h; Mon Mar 12 21:21:21 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA03981; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:24:37 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200103130424.VAA03981@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: How do you get kids interested in computers- other than playing games? To: europax@home.com (Rob) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 04:24:37 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) In-Reply-To: <3AAD626B.CC372925@home.com> from "Rob" at Mar 12, 2001 03:57:31 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > My nephew spends just about every waking moment (other than school) in > front of the > computer playing games. So this Christmas I thought I'd expand his > horizons by buying > him a new Imac with SuSE Linux preinstalled by me. An editor for Quake WADS might convince him. I personally like the Pinball Construction Set; it wasn't long until anyone I let play with it started feeling limited by the constraints, and wanted to head off into the weeds with their own game design. Alternately, my all time favorites were the text adventures; they are available in two "Lost Treasures" packages. There is an interpreter for them in ports, which would let you play them under FreeBSD. Then there's the decompiler and compiler for ZIL (Zork Implementation Language), also in ports. If he could find a friend who had the necessary toys of their own, they could spend some time rewriting the games for each other ("Floyd Here Now!"), as a challenge to each other. I know, I know, he's probably into shoot-'em-ups. Bletch. 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message