On Tue, Jul 23, 2002, Eliran wrote about "Re: Desktop Linux -- Linux lost": > > I did. Nethack won. Did you have a point? > > This is what a UNIX user will say ^, of course some people do prefer to > work on graphical X games... not much really newbies mostly...
> If you will ask the same question to a win-guy what do you think he will > say ? I don't see why some people here associate good-looking graphical games with Microsoft. Most good games have nothing to do with Microsoft, and many of them are not even for Windows (ever heard of game consoles, arcades, and so on?). 20 years ago, before the PC or Microsoft became prevalant, people were already playing graphical games on personal computers like the Commodore-64. It's not and idea Microsoft invented... At that period, Unix was usually run on mainframe and textual terminals, which is why textual and curses- based games like Rogue (on which Nethack's idea was based) were invented. But as soon as people had graphics on Unix, they also wanted graphical games. I think the first graphical game I saw on Unix was in 1985, on an AT&T 5620 dot-mapped display (DMD), which was a game where you fly a spaceship and need to shoot down things things like the logos of AT&T and IBM, and Ken Thompson's (or was it somebody else's?) face :) Nowadays there are many graphical Linux games, but let's not kid ourselves: most (if not all) new games that thrill kids are for either Windows or game consoles, not for Linux. Kids who play games on Windows usually don't care that "Linux games are free!" because they also copy the Windows games from friends without paying anything to anyone... > Old-win users would expect high quality graphics game with 3D sound > and other `goodies'. Most UNIX users don't really care wether it is > a console-based game or graphical one. There is a very small number of good text-based games, and I don't think anyone wrote a good new one in the last decade (but correct me if I'm wrong). Many Unix devotees still prefer good-looking, good-sounding games, in my experience. -- Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, Jul 23 2002, 14 Av 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |What's the difference between roast beef http://nadav.harel.org.il |and pea soup? Anyone can roast beef. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
