From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 13 18:53:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 934E337B719 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:53:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from europax@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010314025326.NUUD2254.femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:53:26 -0800 Message-ID: <3AAEDD32.79506E27@home.com> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:53:38 -0800 From: Rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: "freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: How do you get kids interested in computers- other than playing games? References: <200103130424.VAA03981@usr05.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message