Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 20:34:33 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: The /usr/bin/games bikeshed again Message-ID: <200102151834.f1FIXv941778@gratis.grondar.za>
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I have a little time on my hands while the library gurus sort out
stuff, so I thought I'd divert a little attention to the games dir.
Jordan brought this up a couple of years ago, and it got badly
bikeshedded, even though it was generally deemed to be a good idea.
So - I bring up an improvemnt on the original idea, and throw it
open for discussion.
I have coarsely cateogorised the games in src/games into broad
groups - adventure/strategy, board/card, novelty, quiz, arcade and
utility.
PLEASE PLEASE resist the temptation to recategorise games unless
there is a strong reason to do so. I'd prefer to not see this thread
die in a nitpicking argument about what category a particular game
belongs to.
I'd like to turn each category into a port (ports/games/bsd-adventure
for example), with the exception of "utility"). Those, I'd like
to keep where they are. In that class ("utility") is everyone's
favourite - fortune, so that should deal with most of the fears
from last time :-).
The ports/games/* ports could probably get a clue-injection on
how to use dm(6), but that is another bikeshed.
Here are all the games in their categories (I propose that we
ditch the "junk" category; wargames(6) is a rather stale joke by
now.):
Adventure/Strategy
------------------
adventure A
atc A
battlestar A
hack A
larn A
phantasia A
rogue A
sail A
trek A
wump A
Board/Card
----------
backgammon B
bs B
canfield B
cribbage B
fish B
mille B
Junk
----
wargames J
Novelty
-------
bcd N (U?)
grdc N (U?)
piano N
pig N
pom N
ppt N (U?)
rain N
worms N
Quiz
----
arithmetic Q
hangman Q
quiz Q
Arcade
------
robots R (A?)
snake R (A?)
worm R (A?)
Utility
-------
caesar U
factor U
fortune U
morse U
number U
primes U
random U
M
--
Mark Murray
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