8/11/93

Here is version 1.0 of our bsdgames package, containing ports of 
your favorite curses-based bsd games (descriptions to follow).
These games mostly came from ftp.uu.net:/systems/unix/bsd-sources/games 
with some older versions from the Tahoe release. There's not much to do in
porting most of them, mostly busy-work. We didn't really try to enhance
them. Maybe later. We wanted to get out what we thought were the most
popular games first so we will eventually hopefully have the whole
bunch done (If you want to help, contact us!).

They should work with curses or ncurses. Each subdirectory has a README.linux
which should describe how to change from the default curses to ncurses.

If you don't have curses you can pick up ncurses from sunsite.unc.edu
in /pub/Linux/libs/ncurses/ncurses0.7.tar.Z but it seems to be included
with SLS now.

In any case, you should read the README.linux files for anything you plan
to install. You can make each package individually or do a make in the
toplevel dir to make everything.

The games that are here:

arithmetic, atc, battlestar, bcd, canfield, fish, fortune, hangman, mille,
number, ppt, rain, robots, worm, worms, and wump

Coming soon:

backgammon, caesar, chess, dm, factor, larn, monop, morse, pom, primes, quiz,
rogue, sail, trek, and wargames

Now what they are:

arithmetic:	arithmetic quiz/speed test
atc:		air traffic control
battlestar:	adventure game on a battlestar
bcd:		outputs text in an antique form
canfield:	curses-based solitaire
fish:		go fish
fortune:	displays a random silly message
hangman:	guess the word before it is too late
mille:		mille borne against the computer
number:		output the english text for a number
ppt:		outputs text in another antique form
rain:		attempts to create a rain drop effect (best at 9600 baud)
robots:		well... avoid the robots
worm:		eat the numbers without running into anything
worms:		random worms scurrying across your screen
wump:		hunt the wumpus

If you have questions you can contact us at:

Curt Olson (olson@cs.umn.edu)
Andy Tefft (teffta@engr.dnet.ge.com)



