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"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! :-)
This wrong on 4 different levels of wrongness. I love it!
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Aren't there already x^n versions of xbill?
Funny to see how the Mac community is slowly but surely becoming UNIXified.
Next they will be using the terminal app. Seriously though, transitioning from OS9 to OSX must be a bit like moving from an automatic to a stick shift.
Watch this get modded down because it's mac related.
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.
xbill was ported to OSX almost a year ago.
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I may be missing something, but it looks a lot like this game is poking fun at Microsoft (the software company based in Redmond, Washington). If you look at some of the screenshots, the "bill" that they use looks a lot like Bill Gates, one of Microsoft's founders. And the description they give of the "enemy" you're fighting resembles some of the mainstream media's portrayals of Microsoft (you may have seen them in the news a few times.) Gosh, I hope they noticed the resemblence...someone over at Microsoft (even Bill Gates) might be uncomfortable with this!
But it's GPLed!
Other than porting, what exactly can you do with the code for a chainsaw game?
Oh yeah, BFC mods.
Anyone reading this been using a Mac long enough to remember "Bash Big Blue", which was just clicking on a jumping around IBM logo. I remember playing that on my family's Mac Plus back with the original Daleks game, Airborne, and Orbiter.
It's a simplistic game, but as Brain says when he flattens Pinky, "That was very therapeutic." Of course, the DoJ was useless! And of course, no matter how much you might, Bill wins in the end.
Oh, and nice Rammstein soundtrack! Some of the other interface elements reminded me of the classic Ambrosia game Maelstrom.(which was ported to UNIX and later back to OS X)
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Firstly, there is a huge problem. Bill installs Windows WAY too fast. If anyone I know could install Windows on a Mac in THAT short of time, I would think they switched it into an Intel machine. Even VPC doesn't load that fast ;)
Secondly, as we all know, when Bill play with Windows in public, it blue screens. None of the Macs bluescreened once he installed Windows....
Good start, but we need more realism...and more bloody pieces of Bill lying around.
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Well said.
MS bites. I think we pretty much agree on that. But to take MS-bashing to the point where we revel in images of the chairman of the company being graphically dismembered, we've crossed a line somewhere.
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.
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).
no Windows version? How is 90% of the population supposed to play? This game will go nowhere.
I thought it was the other way around. Seriously, I'm not trying to start arguments, but with all the talk I've heard about how OS X is the first Unix with a nice interface, I would think that Unix users have become somewhat Mac-ified. I don't hear nearly as much talk from old-time Mac users about how wonderful it is to have a CLI or Perl. I hear more chatter and excitement from the other site about how it's nice to have an interface that works so well. :^)
Too egocentric either way. Both statements are probably true--Mac users and Unix users have probably moved toward each other.
--Rick "If it isn't broken, take it apart and find out why."
Mac - Pc haters for the most part actually know what they are talking about while most "How to turn on your computer for dummies" kind of people hate Macs because they probably can't afford them or they are too dumb to actually research it and just read that Micro$oft biased PC-World Magazine. I'm sure if Macs were cheaper they would dominate the market and if it was before the PC took off. Ah those were the times when most computers had no monitors and you plugged it into your tv.
...gives so much of his [clip]...to third world countries...
Strictly to buy favor for his corporation...don't think for one shrink-wrapped minute his heart bleeds for anything but his bottom line.
gates deserves as much respect as an unlined trashcan.
we Mac users have hated Microsoft and Gates since before Linux or xbill even existed!
Is that why you all use MS Office, MSIE, and buy hardware from a company that's partly owned by Microsoft...? Right...
MS handed over $16 million to Apple as a patent settlement. Think courtroom, not boardroom. It was _not_ an investment. Try again.
Blasted MS dolt-troll's can't help drinking the koolaid.
phrggggrrrt!
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Of course it was an investment. That way Microsoft can say to the judge, "see, there's competition - Apple - we're not a monopoly", when in fact they control Apple too. Over 98% of Mac users use MSIE as their browser and over 90% use MS Office for word processing / spreadsheets / etc.. So the OS isn't sold by Microsoft. Big deal. The OS by itself doesn't do much. As Apple used to say, "it's not what the computer does, it's what you can do with it". And most people with Macs use Microsoft software too. In fact, MS Office and MSIE are more dominant in the Mac market than in the Windows market.
With 'enemies' like these, MS doesn't need any friends.
I'm not saying the Linux community is entirely consistent, either. They say Microsoft sucks but then they spend all their time trying to copy Microsoft's look & feel. But at least they're just trying to make a copy, they're not using (and paying for) the original.
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How about you post with your real name instead of telling other people to shut up as AC...?
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As far as I know, Microsoft does not make or sell any Linux software. Lots of Mac users use Windows boxes too. Your point was...?
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