[TUHS] Gaming on early Unix

[A. P. Garcia]

On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 9:23 AM A. P. Garcia <a.phillip.garcia at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 5:52 AM Gabriel Diaz <gdiaz at qswarm.com> wrote:
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> > Hello,
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> > Source code has been published of some early games.
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> > Were those games playable on Unix machines at the time? What was your favourite game?
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> > https://kryptonradio.com/2019/04/18/zork-source-code-presumed-lost-forever-has-been-uploaded-to-github/
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> >
> > Gabi
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> Ken Thompson has made a number of significant contributions to
> computer chess, but I'm not familiar with chess programs that ran on
> early Unix. The earliest and most influential game that originated on
> Unix was probably rogue, which was included in 4.2 BSD. Another early
> and influential game was Colossal Cave Adventure, but that didn't run
> on Unix, AFAIK.

I just remembered another one called Hunt the Wumpus. From Wikipedia:
"A version in C, written in November 1973 by Ken Thompson, creator of
the Unix operating system, was released in 1974; a later C version can
still be found in the bsdgames package on modern BSD and Linux
operating systems."
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_the_Wumpus]