"xbill" for Mac OS X

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! :-)

Comments

Re:Wow

[b_pretender]

Although I'm no fan of Bill Gates, I find this game disturbing. Out of respect for a fellow human being, I don't need some game that shows a detailed image of someone running a chainsaw through somebodies stomach or bill gates' head being held high in the air.

No Thanks. I prefer my gore to be anonymous as in Quake 3 violence.

BTW, since Bill Gates does give so much of his (personal) money to education and third world countries, maybe we should respect him a little more by *not* playing this game.

Re:UNIXified

[bill_mcgonigle]

Seriously though, transitioning from OS9 to OSX must be a bit like moving from an automatic to a stick shift.

Interesting analogy. It's more like transitioning from a 60's automatic to a tiptronic.

re-ported to mac you mean

[veggiespam]

i remember playing "xbill" long before the X windows version was written. it was on a mac se, long ago. if you read the xbill history in the tarball (or help screens), you'll notice they pay homage to the original mac game. so, the game concept returns back to its source.

Re:UNIXified

[inkswamp]

Seriously though, transitioning from OS9 to OSX must be a bit like moving from an automatic to a stick shift.

Not exactly. I've watched non-geeks where I work move from OS 9 to OS X without much problem and without noticing too much difference. Apple did a good job of hiding a lot of the geek stuff so a better analogy would be that going from OS 9 to OS X must be like moving from an automatic to a stick shift that lets you drive like it's an automatic anyway.