There seem to be a number of games http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Scripts
I am particularly interested in Chess and Sherlock http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/BrianSchott/code/SherlockEinsteinSandbox 2010/1/4 Devon McCormick <[email protected]>: > What games do you have in mind? > > 2010/1/4 Björn Helgason <[email protected]> > >> I recently discovered that there has been some activity in the gaming >> applications in J. >> >> It is well worth an effort to see if they can replace old habits and >> also having a go at writing J games to replace old ms-dos games. >> >> 2010/1/4 Alex Rufon <[email protected]>: >> > Hi David, >> > >> > Thanks for the heads up on the Win7_64 for gaming. My wife already >> approved the upgrade cost for our WindowsXP Pro 32 to Windows 7 64bit. Since >> its our home/desktop pc ... its mostly used for gaming, particularly with >> Steam. >> > >> > Just wondering, have you tried playing under Windows XP mode VM? >> > >> > Alex >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of David Mitchell >> > Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 9:15 PM >> > To: Chat forum >> > Subject: Re: [Jchat] What to choose 64 or 32? >> > >> > I found that most of the games I had ran fine on Vista32, but would not >> run on >> > Win7_64. Just about all of the non-game software I had ran fine on both. >> I >> > installed both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of VirtualDub on Win7_64 >> and found >> > that the compression codecs that were available were different on each >> version. >> > I finally used the 32 bit version because of the codec and filter >> options that >> > were not supported in the 64 bit version. >> > >> > I have used the WIN7Pro Windows XP Mode VM to support an old 32 bit >> program I >> > depend on (Ecco). Ecco would not work on Win7_64. I also used it to >> support an >> > ancient USB Canon scanner that had no 64 bit drivers. Both worked fine >> in the VM. >> > >> > -- >> > David Mitchell >> > >> > On 1/2/2010 19:34, Björn Helgason wrote: >> >> I guess I begin to update some of the Linux machines to 64 bit >> >> gradually and see if I might possibly switch other operating systems >> >> to VMware running under Linux. >> >> >> >> I have one Vista machine I got cheap and it is actually the best >> >> Windows machine I have had. >> >> >> >> Mind you I only use it (small handy laptop) for internet because none >> >> of my old XP applications (outside of J that is) run on it. >> >> So I do need to keep a few old XP machines for old games etc. >> >> >> >> 2010/1/2 Michael Dykman<[email protected]>: >> >>> Here in Toronto, it has been a couple of years since one could even >> >>> source a 32-bit x86, if shopping for new. While I jumped on the >> >>> 64-bit operating systems for server work, as a user of linux on my >> >>> personal desktop, I hesitated on installing the 64-bit builds for my >> >>> own computer until the multimedia codecs caught up, but I stopped >> >>> worrying about that a couple of years ago. >> >>> >> >>> - michael dykman >> >>> >> >>> On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 12:37 PM, DIETER ENSSLEN<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>>> definitely 64 bit, no other logical choice >> >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>>> For information about J forums see >> http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> >>>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> - michael dykman >> >>> - [email protected] >> >>> >> >>> May the Source be with you. >> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> >> >> >> -- >> Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur >> Fornustekkum II >> 781 Hornafirði >> Po Box 127,801 Selfoss , >> t-póst: [email protected] >> gsm: +3546985532 >> sími: +3544781286 >> http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming >> >> >> Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans >> >> góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum >> /|_ .-----------------------------------. >> ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | >> ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | >> / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | >> ( -. | `-----------------------------------' >> | ) | (\_ _/) >> (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ >> `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > > > > -- > Devon McCormick, CFA > ^me^ at acm. > org is my > preferred e-mail > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fornustekkum II 781 Hornafirði Po Box 127,801 Selfoss , t-póst: [email protected] gsm: +3546985532 sími: +3544781286 http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) 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