Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:53:38 -0800 From: Rob <europax@home.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: "freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How do you get kids interested in computers- other than playing games? Message-ID: <3AAEDD32.79506E27@home.com> References: <200103130424.VAA03981@usr05.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> > 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.
I will print this email, and look into what you have suggested.
Thanks! Rob.
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