28 Feb
2023
28 Feb
'23
7:48 a.m.
On Monday, February 27, 2023, Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Oh, and lots of games; I had a nice
> Solitaire version that I can no longer recall the name of.
Coming from the 8-bit microcomputer world (Atari 8-bit, C64), and then
upgrading to 16-bit (Amiga and PC MS-DOS) I experienced a myriad of
unforgettable games on those platforms. They were mostly commercial but
they were very much different from modern games. It was the era of
innovation and pouring all your soul into the games you produce. I still
think that some of them have not been surpassed in quality and playability.
I still play them on period correct hardware as they are still extremely
fun and challenging.
This is my top 10 list (sorted by year):
* Prince of Persia
* The Secret of Monkey Island
* Civilization
* Dune II
* Master of Orion
* Reunion
* Warcraft
* Ascendancy
* Quake
* Half-Life
As I started to play with Linux in the mid 90s I remember a port of Doom
and then Quake, but not that many other games. Can you elaborate more on
what Unix afficionados played in the late 80s/early 90s?
--Andy
On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 12:22 PM Paul Ruizendaal via
TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org wrote:
Thanks all for the insights. Let me attempt a
summary.
<SNIP> 
11:02 a.m.
On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 10:44:37AM +0000, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
Andy Kosela wrote:
Also quite a few multiplayer ones like xpilot..
'Hunt' (terminal/ASCII)
Spellcast (X11)
Crossfire (X11)
Not really a game, but hugely fun at the time 'xspringies'
Bye, Arno.
Can you elaborate more on what Unix afficionados
played in the late
80s/early 90s?
Dungeon/Zork
Rogue
Nethack
Mazewar
XPilot 
11:06 a.m.
Hi,
Am 28.02.2023 um 11:44 schrieb Lars Brinkhoff
<lars(a)nocrew.org>rg>:
Andy Kosela wrote:
xBattle, which was a multiplayer game to be run on one workstation which opened windows
for each player on different X displays - at that time (early 90s) there was no network
mode.
--
"You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to do
something,
and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896
Can you elaborate more on what Unix afficionados
played in the late
80s/early 90s?
Dungeon/Zork
Rogue
Nethack
Mazewar
XPilot 
4:49 p.m.
Didn't Peter Langston have a bunch of CHUI games for V6?
ISTR a car racing game where the 24x80 screen showed the driver's view
to the front, including a rear view mirror that could show other cars.
Thanks,
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On 2/28/23 02:44, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
Andy Kosela wrote:
Can you elaborate more on what Unix afficionados
played in the late
80s/early 90s?
Dungeon/Zork
Rogue
Nethack
Mazewar
XPilot 
7:45 p.m.
We all pretty much started with Adventure (Dungeon, Collosal Cave)
whatever you want to call it.
We got Zork later on.
There was Peter Langston’s Empire that had a huge following at BRL. We
thought we had it in check because the game had it’s own limits on how
much you could play it you were limited to 60 minutes of clock time a
day and how many BTUs (bureaucratic time units) your capital made.
The problem was people would spend their time online downloading maps
and then spend the afternoon pouring over tomorrows moves. The
director finally made us shut it down.
There was a multiplayer game called “search” that we would play. Late
in the day you’d hear someone yell “Search’s up” and off we go.
Then we got the SGI workstations and flew the flight simulator. They
had a multiplayer dogfight but it used XNS which our network wasn’t
going to handle (at least not off the local subnet). I recoded it to
use TCP. Rather than using broadcast packets, each “airplane” opened a
connection to a server I called “Air Traffic Control.” From there I
could watch the whole thing. I also added an anti-aircraft gun to
shoot at people hanging around the airfield waiting to attack aircraft
that newly appeared in the game there. A few months later I was at
Nasa Ames for an IETF meeting and mentioned I had done this and they
made me sit down and ftp over the code so NASA’s productivity could also
be destroyed.
Ron “A hollow voice says ‘plugh’ Natalie
8:01 p.m.
There's also the venerable Hunt the Wumpus. We had an RS/6000 gathering dust in the
server room at my old lab. I would often rsh into it to play wump or quiz when things were
slow. I don't remember what all else it had, it was some AIX 4.x release. If that
server is still extant I should see if they're planning on offloading it any time
soon.....a personal RS/6000 could be fun...
- Matt G.
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On Tuesday, February 28th, 2023 at 11:45 AM, Ron Natalie <ron(a)ronnatalie.com>
wrote:
We all pretty much started with Adventure (Dungeon,
Collosal Cave) whatever you want to call it.
We got Zork later on.
There was Peter Langston’s Empire that had a huge following at BRL. We thought we had it
in check because the game had it’s own limits on how much you could play it you were
limited to 60 minutes of clock time a day and how many BTUs (bureaucratic time units) your
capital made. The problem was people would spend their time online downloading maps and
then spend the afternoon pouring over tomorrows moves. The director finally made us shut
it down.
There was a multiplayer game called “search” that we would play. Late in the day you’d
hear someone yell “Search’s up” and off we go.
Then we got the SGI workstations and flew the flight simulator. They had a multiplayer
dogfight but it used XNS which our network wasn’t going to handle (at least not off the
local subnet). I recoded it to use TCP. Rather than using broadcast packets, each
“airplane” opened a connection to a server I called “Air Traffic Control.” From there I
could watch the whole thing. I also added an anti-aircraft gun to shoot at people hanging
around the airfield waiting to attack aircraft that newly appeared in the game there. A
few months later I was at Nasa Ames for an IETF meeting and mentioned I had done this and
they made me sit down and ftp over the code so NASA’s productivity could also be
destroyed.
Ron “A hollow voice says ‘plugh’ Natalie
8:24 p.m.
On 28 Feb 2023, at 19:45, Ron Natalie
<ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
We all pretty much started with Adventure (Dungeon, Collosal Cave) whatever you want to
call it.
We got Zork later on.
…..
There was a multiplayer game called “search” that we would play. Late in the day you’d
hear someone yell “Search’s up” and off we go.
Help me here please. I have been
hunting for the source of search for ages. I want to fly through that universe again -
curses and all!
We modified the source of our version at the Uni to make it a bit more Scottish and to
include objects that had names based on local lectures/students etc.
My search skills in searching for search have let me down badly.
I would like to get search up on one of my VAXEN and show my staff what a real 80s
computer game was about ;-)
Does anybody have any ideas if the source is still extant?
Iain
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