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The Great Operating System Games
harrymcc writes "For decades, the simple little games that come with operating systems have been some of the most-used software on the planet. Legendary geeks such as Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, and Andy Herzfeld have tried their hands at writing them. And yet they get no respect — or, actually, attention of any kind. Technologizer's Benj Edwards aimed to rectify that with a look at forty years' worth of bundled OS games, from 1971 Unix text-based ones to Woz's Little Brick Out to such Windows mainstays as Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Reversi." Article is an annoyingly long slide show (would it kill people to put a reasonable amount of content on pages?) but there's some fun stuff in there.
XBill is one of my favorites. They went into minutiae about winblows game over the years and had one page to talk about the games that commonly come with Linux. I was glad to see Trek - it was the first game I ever played on a computer.
All generalizations are false, including this one. Mark Twain
You might be fucking biggest gay cocksucker I've ever seen. And I've seen your parents!
How many high-risk operations can you do before you lose?
You lose when:
*you have to reboot
*your computer is no longer under your control
*you are unable to do any of the tasks that Windows claims to be able to do without rebooting or losing control of your computer
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
They went into minutiae about winblows
You sound like a fucking idiot and a fanboy when you say that, and no one will ever take seriously anything you say after it.
And you sound like a Nazi. I see you don't have the balls spew your bile with your own fucking name.
All generalizations are false, including this one. Mark Twain