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BKG - Backgammon game #791

Open atsampson opened 6 years ago

atsampson commented 6 years ago

The list of games in JOBS includes BKG and .BACKG. There's no TS BKG or similar in the AI/MC public tarballs.

However, SRI-NIC has SRC:BKG.EXE, which says "This is C-MU's BKG V9.9, Alias Mighty-B". This is Hans Berliner's implementation, originally written in BLISS for TOPS-10:

http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3408&context=compsci http://www.bkgm.com/articles/Berliner/ https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2017/january/obituary-berliner.html

Was ITS's game the same thing, wrapped with DECUUO?

eswenson1 commented 6 years ago

Binary installed as part of DB-ITS. Still need to build from source. #907

atsampson commented 6 years ago

TS BKG is CMU BKG V9.8 with a DECUUO bootstrap.

eswenson1 commented 6 years ago

Do you have source?

atsampson commented 6 years ago

Nope. I don't know if it was ever distributed as source; all I could find when looking before was the BKG.EXE binary.