Atc (air traffic controller) is a fun little console game included in the "bsd-games" package on most linux distributions. The player is presented with a radar screen and he must give directions to planes to help them safely takeoff and/or land. It gets really hard when there's lots of planes flying all over the screen.
There may be a bsd-games package in fink or macports, but a couple of quick searches didn't reveal anything. So, I thought it might be fun getting it to build under OS X (leopard). It wasn't hard, and I learned a little bit about flex/bison. That, and playing atc on my laptop, was fun. :)
You can grab the bsd-games 2.17 source from ibiblio.
The following script (to be run in the "atc" subdirectory) will produce an "atc" binary, which uses the "games" directory and a score file in the ...
Overall, living in Utah is not as bad as I had originally thought. The mountains are pretty, neighbors are friendly, and the Linux/OSS community (one of my big interests) is strong.
However, one thing I can't stand is driving here. I'm reminded of it every day when I drive to or home from work. Some of my major beefs are excessive speed, tailgating, waste of gas, and poor lane usage.
The speed limit on most highways is 65 MPH, 75 when you get further away from towns. Lots of major streets in town are 45. These are quite a bit faster than what I'm used to in Illinois, where most streets are 30 or 35, and highways get up to 65. I always go at least the speed limit, but can't figure out why people are compelled to consistently drive 15+ MPH over the speed ...
The blog is working. Thanks, Sco++.
I'm finally getting around to publishing my updated website. I've got grand plans for content, and we'll just have to wait and see how much of it materializes. I'm also trying to get things updated for the pending Django 1.0 release.