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Tag: BSD

  • SS20 Desktop: Some minor progress

    Whilst it has been some time since the original post, I have been a busy beaver trying to get the old Sparcstation 20 running. I’ve been making an effort to get the hardware working with some mixed success, and have made much better progress with the software. The hardware is…

  • OS Shootout: Trying to get the Sun Frame Buffer to work.

    Quite a while ago I bought a Sun frame buffer (Wildcat Expert3d-lite) on ebay in the hopes of turning either my Sun Fire machines into a workstation. I had FreeBSD on the 280R and Gentoo Linux on the V440. FreeBSD didn’t like the card as it doesn’t have support for…

  • Some NetBSD Games

    Having recently upgraded the disk space on the Sparcstation I decided I would go about installing a bunch more useful utilities and some games. I installed some image processing and capture software called XV so I could capture screenshots on the machine, this is what I’ve used to capture todays…

  • Some words on X windows

    I’ve recently been reading about and watching a few videos about the replacement for X called Wayland. Now I know very little about Wayland itself, but I’ve been a user of X since about 1999 when I first went to university, so I can’t help it, I feel moved to…

  • The Battle for Wesnoth

    The Battle for Wesnoth is an open source game project that had its first release back in 2003. It is a strategy game based in a fantasy world with many RPG like elements. Today I’m playing it on my Macbook running Mac OS X (Lion), but the game also works…

  • WindowMaker on FreeBSD

    This weekend I decided it was time to upgrade the software on the two functional Sun Sparc systems I have. I have FreeBSD on the newer of the two machines, and had been trying various window managers to use. The older Sparc has FVWM (recently upgraded to the latest version)…

  • XBlast on NetBSD

    XBlast was created by Oliver Vogel and Garth Denley between 1993 and 2006. It is a multi-player game that is based on the Bomberman games which were popular on many old home consoles as early as 1983. I had never previously played a Bomberman game before so I have very…

  • Xboing on NetBSD

    Xboing is a breakout style game for the X windows systems, it was written by Justin C. Kibell in the years 1993 – 1997. It is written using the basic X toolkit libraries so will run on pretty much any Unix system with a half decent compiler set. The game…

  • Xtris for NetBSD

    Xtris was written by Roger Espel Llima, and the release that I have was completed in 1996. It is a Tetris clone for X windows on unix like systems. It works on most Unix systems and I played it on NetBSD. The game plays pretty much as you would expect…

  • Xscavenger for NetBSD

    Xscavenger is a lode runner clone made by David Ashley in 1997 for the X windows system.  I’m pretty new to the lode runner game itself only having recently played it on my C64 when I managed to get the cartridge on eBay. I found the original very challenging, and…