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From: banzai@pixar.UUCP
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacHack (1.0.3)
Message-ID: <1028@pixar.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 16:21:41 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 31 16:21:41 1987
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Reply-To: banzai@pixar.UUCP (Eric Herrmann)
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Summary: MacCurses, again?

In article <6967@reed.UUCP> trost@reed.UUCP (Bill Trost) writes:
>In article <3430@islenet.UUCP> richard@islenet.UUCP (Richard Foulk) writes:
># I don't have a Macintosh, but it would seem to make sense for someone
># to take the time to port one of the public domain curses packages
># to the Mac first.
># Then you could much more easily port other unix-based games to it too.
>Yeah!  That's a really super-duper incredible idea.  The Macintosh
>(and other machines with bit-mapped screens) certainly needs more
>text-based games.  We could even port things like robot and worm!  I
>think someone should get to work on that right away.

I've already done it... worm & rain work fine.  I was working on a port of
UltraRogue, but haven't touched it lately.  Isn't it a great idea, though?
Play all those old games that you thought you'd miss when you gave up
your PDP-11 at work?  I can't wait to port robot -- great idea!

>We could even port vi if we did that!  What an outstanding idea!
Curses was ripped out of vi's source... wrong way around.
 
>:-(
Why does your guy have a dent in his head?  =:-)

>...!(ogcvax|tektronix)!reed!trost 

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