/bin/games ?

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Title: /bin/games ?
Post by: dylanmcnamee on December 17, 2019, 05:55:06 PM
Now that it's running and healthy, one thing I'm missing in my NeXTStation setup is the original BSD /bin/games. I know this was an optional install, but I think it's era-appropriate, and would help with the educational / demo value of a running NeXTStation.

The thing that made me think of it was the NeXT Fortune app, which puts a /bin/games/fortune in your dock. Googling only turned up modernized versions of the games, but even those seem to be relegated to archive.org: http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/bsd-games-2.17.tar.gz

Ideally I'd like to get the source and/or 68k binaries for /bin/games. I'll go through all of my archive CDs, but thought I'd ask here first.
Title: Re: /bin/games ?
Post by: dylanmcnamee on December 18, 2019, 12:11:56 AM
Digging around, I see that this repo / directory is pretty close:

https://github.com/RetroBSD/2.11BSD/tree/master/usr/games

The Makefiles mostly work, but stdio.h is hiding in /usr/include/ansi, which will require a bit of tweaking. I'll report back here if I get /usr/games going, but would appreciate any input from folks who have been here before.

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