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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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SpaceWar! PKGBUILD

This is a project with which I have been playing for some time now.  I finally have created my very first PKGBUILD which uses my very first posting on Sourceforge.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39976

This project implements a PDP-1 emulator running the original computer video game, SpaceWar!.  This program dates from 1962.  I had the extreme pleasure as a boy to have access to this game running on a PDP-15 in the late 60's.  This version is written in C++ and is based upon a Java version that had been available on the MIT website. 

I solicit your comments on all parts of this project -- the PKGBUILD, the Sourceforge site, the code, the make system, whatever.

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ndowens

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Registered: 2007-08-15

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Re: SpaceWar! PKGBUILD

It looks good, one thing that needs to be changed is the source line to:
source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pdp1spacewar/${pkgname}.tar.gz)

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,974

Re: SpaceWar! PKGBUILD

source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pdp1spacewar/${pkgname}.tar.gz)

I agree.  I'll try to get to that in the next day or so.

Thanks.

Last edited by ewaller (2010-09-01 04:33:49)

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Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine. -- Alan Turing
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