Classic BSD Games on OS X

bsdgames_osx.markdown

The following are the terminal commands that I used to get bsdgames installed on OS X Yosemite PB3. Install bsdmake via Homebrew before proceeding.

Clone down ctdk/bsdgames-osx

$ git clone https://github.com/ctdk/bsdgames-osx.git

Enter the bsdgames-osx directory.

(optional) Change the Installation Path

# The prefix of /usr/local is hard-coded in a lot of places, let's use /Users/osxi/.local
# (substitute `osxi` with your user name).
$ find . -type f | xargs -n1 -I {} perl -e "s/\/usr\/local/\/Users\/osxi\/.local/g;" -pi {}

# Open `Makefile` and remove the line for ching. I don't know what that is but it didn't want to
# install so I deleted it. All that matters is `atc`, right? :D
$ vim Makefile

Compile

# Compile everything
$ CFLAGS="-std=c11" CC=clang bsdmake

Install

# Install everything
$ bsdmake install

All you should have to do is add /Users/osxi/.local/bin to your $PATH. You can add something like export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin" to your shell's RC script so it knows where to find your shiny new bsdgames executables.

The final step is to reduce your terminal emulator's font size and play atc at work.

Thanks! The above instructions were quite helpful!

A quick note to everyone on macOS 12.4, if you are seeing issues with bsdmake install such as install: brew: Invalid argument, you'll need to modify some parameters within Makefile.inc.

Something like this should do the trick:

BINOWN?=	<your-user-name>
LIBOWN?=	<your-user-name>
MANOWN?=	<your-user-name>
SHAREOWN?=	<your-user-name>

BINGRP?=	staff
SHAREGRP?= 	staff

Edit: From https://github.com/ctdk/bsdgames-osx/blob/master/Homebrew/Yosemite/bsdgames-osx.rb