ACB

[Janina Sajka]

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
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
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				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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