Spent awhile playing Search & Rescue. A deuced difficult game, made no simpler by the controls of a helicopter. Nowhere near so easy as one might imagine.
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An explanation of why emacs exists, notable for the optimism it contains:
The programmable editor is an outstanding opportunity to learn to program! A beginner can see the effect of his simple program on the text he is editing; this feedback is fast and in an easily understood form. Educators have found display programming to be very suited for children experimenting with programming, for just this reason (see LOGO).
Programming editor commands has the additional advantage that a program need not be very large to be tangibly useful in editing.
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An explanation of why emacs exists, notable for the optimism it contains:
The programmable editor is an outstanding opportunity to learn to program! A beginner can see the effect of his simple program on the text he is editing; this feedback is fast and in an easily understood form. Educators have found display programming to be very suited for children experimenting with programming, for just this reason (see LOGO).
Programming editor commands has the additional advantage that a program need not be very large to be tangibly useful in editing.
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As netcraft point out so well.
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As netcraft point out so well.
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Apparently Chaucer wrote what is the oldest technical manual in English. Pretty cool, if you ask me.
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Apparently Chaucer wrote what is the oldest technical manual in English. Pretty cool, if you ask me.
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The Reg reveals all.
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The Reg reveals all.
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Corewars is a game of competing computer programs, each trying to force the other to crash. There are various classes of program: the imp, which just keeps on running and hopes that the other guy crashes himself; the dwarf, which drops little bombs throughout memory, hoping to land one on a running opponent; scanners, which look for the opponent, trying to find & kill him; vampires, which try to run another program’s code.
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Corewars is a game of competing computer programs, each trying to force the other to crash. There are various classes of program: the imp, which just keeps on running and hopes that the other guy crashes himself; the dwarf, which drops little bombs throughout memory, hoping to land one on a running opponent; scanners, which look for the opponent, trying to find & kill him; vampires, which try to run another program’s code.
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Happy Penguin is proof that not only are there Linux games, there are plenty of ’em. Some are a bit on the old-fashioned side, but they’re still great fun (which is what I have always been led to believe is the whole point of a game). Among my favourites are NetHack and LinCity; freeciv and xconq are great (I remember playing xconq as a boy at ODU). What’s sad are the great old games no longer supported: games like spellcast and xtank (both more games o’ ODU).
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