Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

[Philip Webb]

060328 Manuel McLure wrote:
> In the commercial arena, there's Ginsberg's Intelligent Bridgeplayer
> at www.gibware.com - I haven't tried it, but they provide a Linux version.

Yes, it's  USD 80  & looks impressive from the maker's write-up.
One would have to be cautious that the Linux version might not be supported,
ie if you find a serious bug, you have to wait & hope they'll fix it.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

[Philip Webb]

060329 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:03:26 -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
>> I've always been amazed that there's no pgm to play Bridge on UNIX.
> There's abridge - http://www.abridgegame.org/ - for playing online
> or did you me something to play against the computer?

Yes, I meant a program to play against the computer.
Finesse Bridge (Win98 only) gives a fairly good imitation of club players
& there are some very strong commercial offerings for M$ Windows.
However, no-one has ever set out to create such a program for UNIX.

There are excellent chess programs for Linux
& a Go program which makes me (2 kyu) think a bit
-- tho' Go is much more difficult for a computer than is chess -- ,
so I return to my sociological question in the previous message.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

[Manuel McLure]

Neil Bothwick wrote:

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:03:26 -0500, Philip Webb wrote:



I've always been amazed that there's no pgm to play Bridge on UNIX.



There's abridge - http://www.abridgegame.org/ - for playing online, or
did you me something to play against the computer?


In the commercial arena, there's GIB (Ginsberg's Intelligent 
Bridgeplayer) at www.gibware.com - I personally haven't tried it, but 
they do provide a Linux version.



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Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

[Neil Bothwick]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:03:26 -0500, Philip Webb wrote:

> I've always been amazed that there's no pgm to play Bridge on UNIX.

There's abridge - http://www.abridgegame.org/ - for playing online, or
did you me something to play against the computer?


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Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

[Philip Webb]

On Tuesday 28 March 2006 08:37, Teresa and Dale wrote:
> Anybody have a list of the games in portage that are card games?

I've always been amazed that there's no pgm to play Bridge on UNIX.
There's lots of commercial stuff for M$ Windows
& I found a fairly good free pgm (Finesse Bridge, Wild Card Software),
which works on Win98 in my back-up machine, but the URL is defunct.

It's a rather interesting sociological question:
do UNIX programmers not play bridge ?
isn't it an itch they'ld want to scratch ?
You can play poker, backgammon etc, so it's not puritanism ... (smile)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

[Teresa and Dale]

Phil Sexton wrote:

> Teresa and Dale wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> My girlfriends mom comes over sometimes and she likes to play card games
>> on the computer.  Anybody have a list of the games in portage that are
>> card games?  You know, like Solitaire or something like that.  I have
>> the ones that come with KDE and Pysol too.  Just looking for some more
>> for her.
>>
>> She's used to windoze by the way.  Also, is there a place to go to find
>> out which ones compare to what ever that is on windoze?  I know they
>> have to change the names sonce they may be copyrighted or something. 
>
>
> Perhaps one of these links will help.
>
> Linux Gamers' FAQ
> http://icculus.org/lgfaq/
>
> The Linux Game List
> http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php
>
> The Linux Game Tome
> http://www.happypenguin.org/
>

Thanks.  Nice links.  I bookmarked those.

Dale
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Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

[Teresa and Dale]

Michael Sullivan wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 07:29 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>  
>
>>Try the kde game set.  I can't remember off the top of my head (and I'm not 
>>near the system) what it's called. 
>>
>>
>
>The card game suite is called Patience (the filename is 'kpat'.)  I use
>it frequently.
> 
>
>
>  
>
Yea, I have that one.  I think I did kde-meta for my install and I think
it got ALL the KDE stuff.  O_O

Dale
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Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

[Michael Sullivan]

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 07:29 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Try the kde game set.  I can't remember off the top of my head (and I'm not 
> near the system) what it's called. 

The card game suite is called Patience (the filename is 'kpat'.)  I use
it frequently.
 


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Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

[brettholcomb]

Try the kde game set.  I can't remember off the top of my head (and I'm not 
near the system) what it's called. 

> 
> From: Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2006/03/28 Tue AM 02:43:21 EST
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage
> 
> Ted Ozolins wrote:
> 
> >pysol. you have to emerge python with tcltk use flag in order for it to
> >work. Pysol contains just about every card game you can imagine.
> >
> >  
> >
> Yea, I have that one though.  I was wondering if there were any more
> though.  I looked in /usr/portage but they are not sorted by card or
> anything.  I do like Pysol though and you do need that flag too.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Any more neat card games?
> 
> Dale
> :-)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

[Bo Andresen]

On Tuesday 28 March 2006 08:37, Teresa and Dale wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> My girlfriends mom comes over sometimes and she likes to play card games
> on the computer.  Anybody have a list of the games in portage that are
> card games?  You know, like Solitaire or something like that.  I have
> the ones that come with KDE and Pysol too.  Just looking for some more
> for her.
>
> She's used to windoze by the way.  Also, is there a place to go to find
> out which ones compare to what ever that is on windoze?  I know they
> have to change the names sonce they may be copyrighted or something.

I don't know anything about pysol but these games are in Windows:

 # eix -C games -r 'hearts|freecell'
* games-board/hearts 
 Available versions:  1.98
 Installed:   none
 Homepage:http://hearts.luispedro.org/index.php
 Description: clone of the hearts game for KDE that comes with 
Windows

* games-board/xfreecell 
 Available versions:  1.0.5b
 Installed:   1.0.5b
 Homepage:http://www2.giganet.net/~nakayama/
 Description: A freecell game for X

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Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

[Phil Sexton]

Teresa and Dale wrote:

Hi folks,

My girlfriends mom comes over sometimes and she likes to play card games
on the computer.  Anybody have a list of the games in portage that are
card games?  You know, like Solitaire or something like that.  I have
the ones that come with KDE and Pysol too.  Just looking for some more
for her.

She's used to windoze by the way.  Also, is there a place to go to find
out which ones compare to what ever that is on windoze?  I know they
have to change the names sonce they may be copyrighted or something. 


Perhaps one of these links will help.

Linux Gamers' FAQ
http://icculus.org/lgfaq/

The Linux Game List
http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php

The Linux Game Tome
http://www.happypenguin.org/

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Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

[Teresa and Dale]

Ted Ozolins wrote:

>pysol. you have to emerge python with tcltk use flag in order for it to
>work. Pysol contains just about every card game you can imagine.
>
>  
>
Yea, I have that one though.  I was wondering if there were any more
though.  I looked in /usr/portage but they are not sorted by card or
anything.  I do like Pysol though and you do need that flag too.

Thanks,

Any more neat card games?

Dale
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Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

[Ted Ozolins]

Teresa and Dale wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
>My girlfriends mom comes over sometimes and she likes to play card games
>on the computer.  Anybody have a list of the games in portage that are
>card games?  You know, like Solitaire or something like that.  I have
>the ones that come with KDE and Pysol too.  Just looking for some more
>for her.
>
>She's used to windoze by the way.  Also, is there a place to go to find
>out which ones compare to what ever that is on windoze?  I know they
>have to change the names sonce they may be copyrighted or something. 
>
>Thanks guys and gals,
>
>Dale
>:-)
>  
>
pysol. you have to emerge python with tcltk use flag in order for it to
work. Pysol contains just about every card game you can imagine.

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[gentoo-user] Card games in portage

[Teresa and Dale]

Hi folks,

My girlfriends mom comes over sometimes and she likes to play card games
on the computer.  Anybody have a list of the games in portage that are
card games?  You know, like Solitaire or something like that.  I have
the ones that come with KDE and Pysol too.  Just looking for some more
for her.

She's used to windoze by the way.  Also, is there a place to go to find
out which ones compare to what ever that is on windoze?  I know they
have to change the names sonce they may be copyrighted or something. 

Thanks guys and gals,

Dale
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