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Hi guys,
My name is Ryan. I'm from Providence, Rhode Island. A friend and I are working on a homemade video game cabinet design in the style of classic arcade games from the late seventies to nineties. We're designing a system that allows people to play these original games on their original hardware, as they would have 20-30 years ago, (as opposed to an emulator,) because we have a tremendous passion for the 'golden age' of arcade gaming. We also have a passion for open source and the UNIX culture, which is why we've decided to use Raspberry Pi systems for our data relay.
We're extremely excited about this project. We've been talking with programmers from around the world about the theory of this device, and now we're looking for UNIX pros to help us bring it all together.
If you want to see some more about the project, check out the thread on the Raspberry Pi forums under 'Projects and Collaboration'.

ATTN: This is NOT a job posting. We're looking for anyone and everyone who's interested in the project to help us out with designing and coding the system. When we started the project, we couldn't find anyone who's done this kind of thing before, and we'd love to have it available to whoever wants to build off it in the future Smilie
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GAMES(1)						      General Commands Manual							  GAMES(1)

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4s, 5s, ana, mandel, plumb, smiley, life, fsim, clock, catclock, fireworks, swar, festoon - time wasters SYNOPSIS
games/4s games/5s games/ana [ fixwords ] games/mandel games/plumb [ level ] games/smiley games/life startfile games/fsim games/clock games/catclock [ -c ] games/fireworks games/swar games/festoon [ -p ] [ -e ] [ -t ] [ -sseed ] [ len ] [ pfn ] DESCRIPTION
There are a few games in /bin/games: 4s, 5s Try to fill complete rows using 4-square or 5-square tiles. Move tiles left or right by moving the mouse. Rotate tiles with buttons 1 and 3. Drop tiles for more points with button 2 or the space bar. ana Find anagrams for words typed on standard input. Anagrams can contain several dictionary words. The fixwords argument or num- bers typed on standard input fix the number of words in the output anagrams. mandel Compute and display Mandelbrot sets. Menus on the mouse buttons control various things. plumb Build a plumbing system. Keep ahead of the advancing oil and don't waste pipe. The level argument lets you start at a harder level. smiley A game of historical importance. Type space to shoot, comma to move left, and period to go right. life Play the game of life, given an initial position. There is a library of interesting initial positions; the library is consulted if startfile cannot be found. fsim Pretend you're flying a Cessna. clock, catclock Display analog clocks. Option -c makes catclock crosseyed. fireworks Hoist the fiery blue peter. swar Space war for two players called MCI and SPRINT. One player types a or d to turn left or right, s to shoot, x to enter hyper- space, and w to accelerate. The other player uses ;, l, . and o. AT&T scores whenever either ship shoots itself or otherwise causes mayhem. Hyperspace is occasionally fatal. festoon Traditional radical monoarchate qualitativeness. Now produces pictures (-p), tables (-t), and equations (-e). The seed can be set to recreate a specific document. Len is sentence length, and pfn is percent faked nouns (default 0). FILES
/sys/games/lib/4scores scores of 4s games /sys/games/lib/5scores scores of 5s games /sys/games/lib/plumb/scores scores of plumb games /sys/games/lib/anawords used by ana /sys/games/lib/plumb/* miscellaneous files used by plumb /sys/games/lib/life/* interesting starting positions SOURCE
/sys/src/games GAMES(1)