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"xbill" for Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the it-passes-the-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Seems like some guys have made a GPL'd Mac OS X game called xGates. It's very similar to xbill but you get to use a chainsaw and it's awfully violent. Funny to see how the Mac community is slowly but surely becoming UNIXified. =)" Hey, xbill was a Unix app first, but we Mac users have hated Microsoft and Gates since before Linux or xbill even existed! :-)

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  1. Re:Mac users rewriting history again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Looks like XBill dates to 1994 -- "XBill was mostly written during the summer of 1994 by Brian Wellington and Matias Duarte". While Mac OS X is newer than this, the Macintosh OS and Mac community date back at least a decade before 1994, to the infamous Superbowl ad in 1984, and some would probably even argue before this, to the Lisa and Apple IIe systems if you allow for Mac Users == Apple Users.

  2. But there's been xBill for OSX for almost a year by OiBoy · · Score: 2, Informative

    xbill was ported to OSX almost a year ago.

    http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-PaloAlt o/ 8861/mac/#macbill

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  3. Re:Amiga users were first by kalidasa · · Score: 4, Informative

    hmmm. us Amiga users were hating IBM and Microsoft before Macs or Unix or X-Anything existed

    Since UNIX predates Microsoft, I sincerely doubt that. The earliest work on UNIX dates to 1969. The zero date in UNIX is 1 Jan 1970. It was in use in a production environment by about 1971 or so. Microsoft was founded in 1975, iirc, after the Altair 8800 was created. The Apple II was out by 1977. The IBM PC and MS-DOS were released in August 1981; indeed, one can see influences from UNIX (and indirect UNIX influences through influences from CP/M) in MS-DOS. The original development of the Amiga began in 1982, and it wasn't released by Commodore (not its original developer) until 23 Jun 1985. X was developed in the mid-1980s according to the X.org website (later 1980s according to most other resources I found). Linus Torvald's famous email can be dated quite precisely, to 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT.

    So one could argue that Amiga users were hating IBM before X users, Linux users, and OS X users, but that's about it. (Assuming that the "mid-1980s" date alluded to on the X.org site is after 23 June 1985).

  4. Re:re-ported to mac you mean by bwelling · · Score: 2, Informative

    Huh? README.Ports mentions that it had been ported to a Mac long ago, but it definitely wasn't written on a Mac. I think I should know...