Go and chess are simple? Tell that to Deep Blue. \On Tue, 21 May 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > Some good games for DOS I know are Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem, Commandos and > other strategy games. Are there any good games for Linux? > I heard only about simple games like Go, chess, and other more simple than > that. > Not that I am a big fan of games, but it was about games. > Teddy, > orasnita at home.ro > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "cwhitley" <cwhitley at ec.rr.com> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 9:17 PM > Subject: Re: ACB > > > Hi Deedra, > remember memory management? Getting a dos machine networked with speech was > anything but simple. Function for function Linux isn't any worse. I > believe where you are seeing complexity is in the fact that there are many > more functions available. I don't think linux is any worse than dos for the > functions that were supported by dos. I.e. word processing, terminal > emulation, email, what else did we use dos for??? > > BTW, for the games question, nethack is available and configured correctly > it uses curses in text mode. I think adom is also available for linux. The > omega source code is out there as well. Get the idea that i'm into the d&d > style games? I've also got c source code for a lot of the "bbs doors" > programs from circa 1985-88, but they're on 5 1/4" and I no longer have a > drive to read them with.... Lot of good that does eh? > > Regards, > > Cecil > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
