Friday, 20 of Julio of 2007

Because more in one go you have thought about making disappear to Bill Gates and its Windows

Although we have thought all it at some time, mainly after some of the dirty tricks that Windows (in anyone of its versions) plays to us periodically, in fact nobody has happened to throw a cake to him to the face to the creator of the funny operating system of the windows. Nevertheless, something that much people do not know is that we can fit to the accounts to this famous pair man-program in the XBill game.

One animated game to the XBill in Gnome, under Linux
One animated game to the XBill in Gnome, under Linux

XBill is an funny game of open code that was very popular in years 90. In him, a called personage “Bill” tries to install “Wingdows “, a virus “intelligently designed to imitate a very popular operating system”, in computers like PCs with Linux and BSD, SPARCstations with Solaris, stations SGI IRIX, Macs Apple, Palm Pilots and NeXTcubes.

Using the mouse we will be able “to squash” to Bill and to give back the original operating system to these equipment. At the end of the game we will gain points by each computer that conserves its operating system. In advanced levels the computers are connected in local network, which causes that Windows can extend more express. Some machines can even catch fire, which we will have to solve throwing to them raises water buckets.

XBill, originally written for X-Windows, behaved to many other systems: OS X, NextStep, Wingdows (twice), BeOS, Java, iPAQ (linux-arm), AmigaOS4.0 and as it could not less be. PalmOS (unballastable in PalmGear).

Playing PBill, XBill for the Palm Scores in PBill
Playing PBill, XBill for the Palm

Like curiosity, to comment that one of the creators of XBill is the Chilean Matías Duarte, who according to I read in FayerWayer years later would design the famous telephone móvil/PDA SideKick, also known like Danger Hiptop, that so many times we have seen in the films.

Sidekick, the movable telephone designed by the programmer of XBill
Sidekick, the movable telephone designed by the programmer of XBill

In order to finish, simply to make clear that the tone of this post is humoristic, nobody by very badly operating system that has created deserves they print that it like a fly, and Bill Gates deserves all our respect, since it is necessary much ability, luck, dedication, luck, vision and luck to arrive at where it has arrived.


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