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Date:      Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:53:38 -0800
From:      Rob <europax@home.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How do you get kids interested in computers- other than playing  games?
Message-ID:  <3AAEDD32.79506E27@home.com>
References:  <200103130424.VAA03981@usr05.primenet.com>

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Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > My nephew spends just about every waking moment (other than school) in
> > front of the
> > computer playing games.  So this Christmas I thought I'd expand his
> > horizons by buying
> > him a new Imac with SuSE Linux preinstalled by me.
> 
> An editor for Quake WADS might convince him.
> 
> I personally like the Pinball Construction Set; it wasn't long
> until anyone I let play with it started feeling limited by the
> constraints, and wanted to head off into the weeds with their
> own game design.
> 
> Alternately, my all time favorites were the text adventures;
> they are available in two "Lost Treasures" packages.  There
> is an interpreter for them in ports, which would let you play
> them under FreeBSD.
> 
> Then there's the decompiler and compiler for ZIL (Zork
> Implementation Language), also in ports.
> 
> If he could find a friend who had the necessary toys of their
> own, they could spend some time rewriting the games for each
> other ("Floyd Here Now!"), as a challenge to each other.
> 
> I know, I know, he's probably into shoot-'em-ups.  Bletch.  8-(.
> 
>                                         Terry Lambert
>                                         terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.

I will print this email, and look into what you have suggested. 
Thanks!  Rob.

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