macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install mymanlocal Homebrew formula metadata
brew / rank 8099
Install myman with Homebrew, Nix, zypper
Text-mode videogame inspired by Namco's Pac-Man. Version 2009-10-30 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#myman.
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Linux
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#mymannixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/my/myman/package.nix · source: api.github.com
openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install mymanopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · myman · source: download.opensuse.org
overview
Package summary
Text-mode videogame inspired by Namco's Pac-Man
Project links
Commands and aliases
- myman
- myman-0.7.1
- myman.command
history
Project history and usage
MyMan is a text-mode arcade game inspired by Namco's Pac-Man. The project homepage describes it as a terminal-oriented game that has been ported across a wide set of text and graphics backends, including ncurses, PDCurses, S/Lang curses, Win32 console, VMS console, raw stdio/termios, GGI, Allegro, aalib, libcaca, TWin, and Carbon. That portability is the package's main historical identity: it is less a modern game platform than a compact C program exploring how much of a maze-chase arcade game can be carried by text displays.
Project history
The README history says MyMan was written on a dare on 1998-06-28. The first version had no color or attribute support, used large tiles, consisted of 742 lines of ANSI C, and depended on three data files for the maze, tiles, and sprites. It ran with ncurses on Linux and Cygwin, gained alternate maze layouts within hours, and later gained color and small-tile support in December 1998. The README credits Benjamin C. Wiley Sittler for the 1997-2009 copyright period and states that the program moved from its original public-domain status to a BSD-style license.
How it is used
As packaged by Homebrew, Nix, and openSUSE, MyMan is a small terminal-game curiosity rather than an ecosystem foundation. Users run the `myman` executable for a Pac-Man-like game rendered with characters, and the project site also publishes plain-text and HTML screenshots to show how the same game appears in a terminal.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: blue
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.
Risk classifier
blue risk · medium confidence · tool
Why
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
Signals
- text:video
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
myman | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
myman-0.7.1 | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
myman.command | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version2009-10-30
manager updated
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:myman |
|---|---|
| Version | 2009-10-30 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://myman.sourceforge.io/ |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Nix95%
myman
nix profile install nixpkgs#myman- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Myman
zypper95%
myman 0.7.0+cvs20091030-2.30
Text based Pacman clone
sudo zypper install myman- License: MIT
- Category: Amusements/Games/Action/Arcade
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: myman
- 3 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Myman
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation