On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:21:24PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 07:59:10PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >Is there any interest in a bsdgames package? Most of the games > >to compile with very little in the way of modifications needed. > >If so, ought it to be all one package, or one per game? > > How are they packaged elsewhere?
Debian has a bsdgames package (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/bsdgames) and a bsdgames-nonfree package (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/bsdgames-nonfree) where the latter has games that have modification or commercial distribution restrictions (I think just rogue). I also see rpms out there with the games all in one. The games are: adventure: the original adventure by Crowther and Woods arithmetic: arithmetic quiz/speed test atc: air traffic control backgammon: backgammon banner: display a message in big letters battlestar: adventure game on a battlestar bcd: outputs text in an antique form boggle: boggle caesar: reads fortunes from the game fortune, also some internet posts canfield: curses-based solitaire countmail: tell you how much new mail you have cribbage: cribbage dab: dots and boxes dm: dungeon master, regulates games playing factor: factor a number fish: go fish fortune: displays a random silly message gomoku: gomoku hack: exploring the Dungeons of Doom hangman: guess the word before it is too late hunt: hunt each other in a maze (multiplayer -- great) mille: mille borne against the computer monop: monopoly morse: output morse code number: output the English text for a number phantasia: interterminal fantasy game pig: output text in Pig Latin pom: display the phase of the moon ppt: outputs text in another antique form primes: generate primes quiz: random knowledge tests rain: attempts to create a rain drop effect (best at 9600 baud) random: random lines from a file or random numbers robots: well... avoid the robots sail: sail your ship into battle snake: grab the cash and avoid the snake and exit tetris: tetris trek: We come in peace, shoot to kill. It's worse than that, he's dead Jim. Ye cannot change the laws of physics. It's life Jim, but not as we know it. There's Klingons on the starboard bow ... wargames: would you like to play a game? worm: eat the numbers without running into anything worms: random worms scurrying across your screen wtf: translate acronyms, e.g. "wtf is WTF" wump: hunt the wumpus I'd leave out ones that are already packaged elsewhere (banner, wtf, fortune, etc.) or ones that don't build easily. Note that some of the games require dictionaries in /usr/share/dict/. I'd have to look more into how to possibly package dictionaries.
