Hi,
Wurx for me! I will miss some of 'em...
I'll admit it. I'm in the stone age still... and rather slow to change
sometimes... although I have enjoyed some of the new hacks!
Alan Coopersmith said the following on 07/30/08 02:19 PM:
> GNOME includes much better games than xsol & puzzle already, so they
> have a replacement there. 8-)
>
> xmac is most likely replaced by GIMP & ImageMagick, if you can still
> find any interesting MacPaint format image files.
>
> And as Mahmood mentioned, if you just want examples of drawing random
> things on your screen, we've got over 100 hacks in the xscreensaver
> collection for doing that.
>
> -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
> Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
>
> Jon K Aimone wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sorry if I'm just way out of touch here, but what makes them obsolete?
>> Declaring they are obsolete implies they've been replaced by something
>> newer, better, faster, etc.
>>
>>
>> Mahmood Ali - Sun Microsystems said the following on 07/30/08 12:28 PM:
>>
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> I am removing these demo programs from open solaris since they are
>>> obsolete.
>>> Let me know if this is going to cause significant heartache to u ;-)
>>> We have much better demo programs in /usr/X11/lib/xscreensaver/hacks.
>>>
>>> plaid paint some plaid-like patterns in an X window
>>> ico animate an icosahedron or other polyhedron
>>> maze an automated maze program
>>> xmac display Apple MacPaint image files under X windows
>>> xsol /xsol/ plays a solitaire game simliar to Klondike.
>>> puzzle 15-puzzle game for X
>>> muncher draw interesting patterns in an X window
>>> worm multicolored worms that crawl around the screen.
>>>
>>> --mahmood
>>>
>
>
>
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Cheers,
Jon.
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