Rocks'n'Diamonds

Recently I've been browsing http://happypenguin.org/ and just for fun I decided to sort games by date of addition and check which one was first. And guess which one it is...
http://happypenguin.org/list?start=1521 ... roved_date :-)

Impressing
Well... gratulations then Holger

Well, although Rocks'n'Diamond is now available for Linux since 1995 (ten years?! I can't believe it!), and available at happypenguin.org since 1998, it is for sure not the first game for Linux. ;-)

Even if you might not count good old classic Unix games which are a bit simpler (but great), like "xmahjongg", there is at least one real Arcade style game, which was there before R'n'D (and which I liked to play on my Linux box in the old days): "xboing", which is a Breakout/Arkanoid clone, which made quite good use of Xlib features these days and looked quite polished. In fact, if I remember right, I had some looks into the source code for porting MirrorMagic from the Amiga to Linux, which was also the early code base for R'n'D. And when I just think about it: MirrorMagic was available for Linux since 1994! :-)

Some interesting and funny facts about MirrorMagic and R'n'D can be found here, btw:

http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-39.en.html

I especially like the part about the telnet account to the nuclear research center, which was indeed no joke, but true. :-)

Yeah, I was kidding of course. We all know that the first games for Linux were
fortune - the predecessor of recent Soldier of Fortune
and
bash - the caveman game where you needed to bash dinosaurs in the head with a big club.

And don't forget the two classic text adventure games "Installing SLS Linux from 40 5,25" floppies" and "Configuring and building Linux kernel 0.99pl8". :-)

tomi stop bringing old topics back to the top, with pointless comments!

Tomi please dont bring back up topics that are over a year old.



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Tomi, welcome to the forum! :-)