"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.

UNIXified

[skinfitz]

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.

Re:UNIXified

[Dephex Twin]

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

Not really. OS X is more like an automatic compared to other UNIX-based OSes, since the command line is there, you just never have to use it if you don't want.

Actually, now that I'm using OS X, I have less technical stuff to deal with. I do a lot of technical stuff for fun, but in terms of what I have to do... well I don't have to do anything. The system has never crashed before. Back in the OS 9 days, things would start crashing, and you'd have to go in and do extension troubleshooting and stuff like that. If you bought a peripheral, you'd have to install drivers.

I know you can get into much more confusing stuff with OS X, but like I said, that thing never crashes. On OS 9 it was an inevidability that you would regularly have to deal with tougher stuff.

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: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.

So, who else reached level 13?

[Alex Thorpe]

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)

Something terribly wrong with the game...

[Tseran]

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.

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:Amiga users were first

[kalidasa]

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).

What...

[Wireless Joe]

no Windows version? How is 90% of the population supposed to play? This game will go nowhere.

UNIXIFIED????

[inkswamp]

Funny to see how the Mac community is slowly but surely becoming UNIXified.

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.