Remembering the ol' days was Re: [Novalug] DC ACM Lecture Monday December 10th, "Game Development" with Lord British

[Beartooth]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Ed T. Toton III wrote:

> It comes with slackware. I have the binary. I've put a copy 
> here:
>
> 	http://www.necrobones.net/games/adventure
>
> Set it executable and you should be good to go.
>
> Or you can grab the games package from slackware.com and 
> extract it.

 	I downloaded it; many thanks!

 	I don't know what means "set it executable."

 	The GUI under properties *says* executable -- and denies 
that it can launch it.

 	The CLI says :

[btth at localhost ~]$ file adventure
adventure: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 
(SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 
2.0.0, stripped
[btth at localhost ~]$

 	Most of that is also outside my comprehension. So I tried 
using the name as a command, and got something very strange :

[btth at localhost ~]$ adventure &
[1] 9298
[btth at localhost ~]$ bash: adventure: command not found


 	(Note the blank line, without a renewed prompt, despite 
the &and the process number -- and I don't find it running. I 
opened the system monitor, sorted it numerically, and found no 
9298 -- nothing between 9070 and 9358, in fact.)

 	But trying to open it with the GUI just gives ma an 
endless list of apps to try it with, and no hint which might 
work.

 	Finally, to clean up, I went back to the terminal which 
had apparently both launched and failed to launch it, and hit ^C. 
That gave this :

[btth at localhost ~]$ bash: adventure: command not found

[1]+  Exit 127                adventure
[btth at localhost ~]$

 	Clue, please?

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