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Tag: FreeBSD

  • Xsokoban on NetBSD

    Having been busy and stressed out lately I haven’t had much time for tinkering or gaming. This is where smaller games that you can play as a quick distraction can help, as they are easy to squeeze in between other jobs, and todays game is one such game. Xsokoban 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…

  • Artsoft games on NetBSD

    Today I am looking at two games for Unix systems called Rocks’n’Diamonds (R’n’D for short) and Mirror Magic. Both were developed by Artsoft which seems to consist of one person, Holger Schemel. Both games are sort of clones of older games for much older platforms. Rock’n’Diamonds is a Boulder Dash…

  • 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)…

  • Freeciv on FreeBSD

    Quite some time ago I worked at a radio telescope for 3 months as part of my work experience for my engineering degree. During that time I had an incredibly old machine as my work station, it was an original Pentium running at 77 Mhz. Because it was so old…

  • 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…

  • Xpilot on Mac OS

    Xpilot is a game very much like Thrust on the C64, but with many more complicated features and game-play. The game is one of the pioneering games in internet gaming, it was one of the first to include in game chat and different game modes such as capture the flag.…