For many years old Unix hands have known that certain software is a
critical part of the mission critical infrastructure. Vital for
keeping the system administrators amused during those long boring hours
when the computer hasn't failed and nobody is phoning you because
you've had the phone on voicemail since last week...
We are proud to present release one of the S/390 games pack. Bringing you
the software that stuffy business types thought no S/390 administrator
would need.
These are not an official Red Hat product, they are not available in the
shops, you can only get them free by going to
ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/Packages
Remember you cannot buy these in the shops. FTP now and we'll also throw
in a free f2c convertor.. and thats not all, you will also get a MUMPS
interpreter for no good reasons other than I built it.
And there's more. As soon as its available you'll get an Algol 60
interpreter at no extra cost..
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These packages were built on Red Hat Linux for the 31bit S/390 platform.
On the whole they are self contained but some of the emulators assume you have
the game data files needed.
S390-languages:
f2c: A fortran to C translator. This is needed to build Dungeon.
mumps: A language commonly used in medical systems. Not required
S390-games:
adventure4: The 660 point extended version of the traditional
Crowther & Woods adventure game.
bsd-games: Traditional Berkely Unix game set - a mix of good
bad and complete junk.
It contains
adventure - the original version of the
Crowther & Woods game
arithmetic - simple maths drills
atc - simple air traffic control sim
backgammon - a rather good backgammon player
banner - generate large print banners
battlestar - another adventure game
bcd - generate punched card images (silly)
caeasar - caeser cypher decrypter
canfield - in text mode
countmail - junk
cribbage - a demon cribbage player
dm - game on/off manager
factor - generate factors
fish - go-fish the card game
gomoku - the game (2 player)
hunt - multiplayer hunt
mille - card racing car game
monop - monopoly assistant (junk)
morse - encode/decode morse (junk)
number - numbers to text form (junk)
phantasia - multiplayer game (junk)
pig - junk
pom - phase of moon
(*buggy on S/390 I don't yet know why*)
ppt - ascii to punched paper tape (silly)
primes - find primes above a give number
quiz - a simple quiz game
rain - ascii screen saver
robots - a suprisingly addictive early game
rot13 - ascii<->rot13 convertor
sail - multiplayer wooden ship wargame
snake - simple game
teachgammon - learn backgammon
tetris-bsd - guess
trek - puts you in control of the enterprise
wargames - junk
worm - simple arcade game
worms - ascii screensaver
wumpus - hunt the wumpus
dungeon: The Infocom Dungeon Adventure - later more
commercially known as "Zork"
level9: A game interpreter for the text adventure games
written by Level 9
nethack: A vast and complex RPG/dungeon exploration game.
Many of its players truely believe it to be a
mission critical application. This version is
built with the ascii GUI. Other UI's exist including
the 3D isometric view 'Falcons Eye' but are less
suited to the S/390
scottfree: A player for the earlier games written by Scott Adams
(Adventure International) and games by Brian Howarth
(Mysterious Adventures)
unquill: A game player/analyser for games written using the
Quill game design tool
xgalaga: A fairly reasonable version of the Galaga arcade
machine. Runs nicely over a network
xmris: A nice variant on Mr Do. Also runs nicely over a
network.
xzip: A player for the Infocom games (v1-5,8) - ie all
but the highly graphical ones. This uses X11 to get
the layout right but only really for text handling
