Games and Amusements

Games and Amusements

[Zachary Kline]

Howdy,
I was wondering if anybody might be able to give me an idea of what games and amusements they might be able to successfully access under Linux?  I myself am a big fan of the 'roguelike games', and have found that for the most part Speakup works tolerably well with most of them.  (The only real annoyance I can see is that the keys to move by lines are defaulting to reading the new line--and in the case of a game like Nethack or Rogue that doesn't always make much sense.  I was wondering about a possible feature to toggle the up-down behavior--possibly to read characters, words, or lines as appropriate?
Also, I was wondering what anybody else on here thinks?  How do you amuse yourselves with Linux?
Thanks much,
Zack.

Re: Games and Amusements

[Laura Eaves]

When I was on unix I used to play boggle and mastermind in addition to 
rogue.  There were others in the games directory, including the ancient 
adventure game, but that was back in school and after hours where I worked 
which was a long time ago.
Just look in /usr/games or wherever that stuff is kept.
Have fun, and beware of blowing away a lot of time -- once years ago I 
actually won at rogue, and after seeing all those grave stones with my name 
on it from past lost games, I hoped for something exciting to happen when I 
ascended out of the dungeon -- but the way it was set up, you just wandered 
around among a bunch of trees and pools and the same monsters were there 
chasing you, and I was mightily disappointed...  In the end I regretted all 
the time wasted.  But hey, sometimes it is a way to unwind.
Happy hacking.
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline@hotmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 1:33 AM
Subject: Games and Amusements


Howdy,
I was wondering if anybody might be able to give me an idea of what games 
and amusements they might be able to successfully access under Linux?  I 
myself am a big fan of the 'roguelike games', and have found that for the 
most part Speakup works tolerably well with most of them.  (The only real 
annoyance I can see is that the keys to move by lines are defaulting to 
reading the new line--and in the case of a game like Nethack or Rogue that 
doesn't always make much sense.  I was wondering about a possible feature to 
toggle the up-down behavior--possibly to read characters, words, or lines as 
appropriate?
Also, I was wondering what anybody else on here thinks?  How do you amuse 
yourselves with Linux?
Thanks much,
Zack.
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Re: Games and Amusements

[Farhan]

Hello, stupid question, you ever thought about playing an online mud with telnet?
On 3/9/2007 at 6:53 Zachary Kline said
Howdy,
I was wondering if anybody might be able to give me an idea of what games and amusements they might be able to successfully access under Linux?  I myself am a big fan of the 'roguelike games', and have found that for the most part Speakup works tolerably well with most of them.  (The only real annoyance I can see is that the keys to move by lines are defaulting to reading the new line--and in the case of a game like Nethack or Rogue that doesn't always make much sense.  I was wondering about a possible feature to toggle the up-down behavior--possibly to read characters, words, or lines as appropriate?
Also, I was wondering what anybody else on here thinks?  How do you amuse yourselves with Linux?
Thanks much,
Zack.
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Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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Re: Games and Amusements

[Alex Snow]

Have you looked at the bsd-games package? that comes with quite a few 
text-based games and other amusing little programs.
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 
at 10:33:31PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
> Howdy,
> I was wondering if anybody might be able to give me an idea of what games and amusements they might be able to successfully access under Linux?  I myself am a big fan of the 'roguelike games', and have found that for the most part Speakup works tolerably well with most of them.  (The only real annoyance I can see is that the keys to move by lines are defaulting to reading the new line--and in the case of a game like Nethack or Rogue that doesn't always make much sense.  I was wondering about a possible feature to toggle the up-down behavior--possibly to read characters, words, or lines as appropriate?
> Also, I was wondering what anybody else on here thinks?  How do you amuse yourselves with Linux?
> Thanks much,
> Zack.
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

-- 
Windows without the X is like making love without a partner.
Sex, Drugs & Linux Rules
win-nt from the people who invented edlin.
Apples  have  meant  trouble  since  eden.
Linux, the way to get rid of boot viruses
	-- MaDsen Wikholm, mwikholm@at8.abo.fi

Re: Games and Amusements

[Doug Sutherland]

There is a Scott Adams adventure game interpreter
and all of the original ten adventures are available.
They are all text based. I played these almost thirty
years ago, they were really great games. There are
also TRS-80 emulators that can do the same, and I
believe there are some online interpreters where
you can play these in a web page.

Re: Games and Amusements

[Zachary Kline]

Hiya,
Yes, I've got that package--which was where I got my hands on the original 
Rogue, incidentally.  Some of those programs are very amusing indeed--I'm 
thinking of fortune, and all that.  Hehe.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@gmx.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 5:34 AM
Subject: Re: Games and Amusements


> Have you looked at the bsd-games package? that comes with quite a few
> text-based games and other amusing little programs.
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007
> at 10:33:31PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
>> Howdy,
>> I was wondering if anybody might be able to give me an idea of what games 
>> and amusements they might be able to successfully access under Linux?  I 
>> myself am a big fan of the 'roguelike games', and have found that for the 
>> most part Speakup works tolerably well with most of them.  (The only real 
>> annoyance I can see is that the keys to move by lines are defaulting to 
>> reading the new line--and in the case of a game like Nethack or Rogue 
>> that doesn't always make much sense.  I was wondering about a possible 
>> feature to toggle the up-down behavior--possibly to read characters, 
>> words, or lines as appropriate?
>> Also, I was wondering what anybody else on here thinks?  How do you amuse 
>> yourselves with Linux?
>> Thanks much,
>> Zack.
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
> -- 
> Windows without the X is like making love without a partner.
> Sex, Drugs & Linux Rules
> win-nt from the people who invented edlin.
> Apples  have  meant  trouble  since  eden.
> Linux, the way to get rid of boot viruses
> -- MaDsen Wikholm, mwikholm@at8.abo.fi
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

Re: Games and Amusements

[Alex Snow]

There was also an ftp site somewhere that had infocom interpreters for 
linux, and a large archive of the old infocom games...however I forget 
the site, and don't have the bookmark anymore...
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 
07:55:36AM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
> Hiya,
> Yes, I've got that package--which was where I got my hands on the original 
> Rogue, incidentally.  Some of those programs are very amusing indeed--I'm 
> thinking of fortune, and all that.  Hehe.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@gmx.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 5:34 AM
> Subject: Re: Games and Amusements
> 
> 
> > Have you looked at the bsd-games package? that comes with quite a few
> > text-based games and other amusing little programs.
> > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007
> > at 10:33:31PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
> >> Howdy,
> >> I was wondering if anybody might be able to give me an idea of what games 
> >> and amusements they might be able to successfully access under Linux?  I 
> >> myself am a big fan of the 'roguelike games', and have found that for the 
> >> most part Speakup works tolerably well with most of them.  (The only real 
> >> annoyance I can see is that the keys to move by lines are defaulting to 
> >> reading the new line--and in the case of a game like Nethack or Rogue 
> >> that doesn't always make much sense.  I was wondering about a possible 
> >> feature to toggle the up-down behavior--possibly to read characters, 
> >> words, or lines as appropriate?
> >> Also, I was wondering what anybody else on here thinks?  How do you amuse 
> >> yourselves with Linux?
> >> Thanks much,
> >> Zack.
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Speakup mailing list
> >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> > -- 
> > Windows without the X is like making love without a partner.
> > Sex, Drugs & Linux Rules
> > win-nt from the people who invented edlin.
> > Apples  have  meant  trouble  since  eden.
> > Linux, the way to get rid of boot viruses
> > -- MaDsen Wikholm, mwikholm@at8.abo.fi
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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	-- Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of interfaces

Re: Games and Amusements

[Michael Whapples]

The name of the interpreter for infocom games is frotz (well that's the
one I use) and it works well with speakup. I can't remember where to
download it, but ubuntu and gentoo both have it in their repositries,
and you'll find it if you search for frotz on the internet.

I can't remember where I got the 3 original zork games (zork 1, zork 2
and zork 3), but if you search for "zork2.z5" you'll probably find it.
There were some other zork games, (e.g. zork the undiscovered
underground), and there are some other games written in the same format
by other authors.

Sorry I couldn't give any specific websites for archives of the games.

From
Michael Whapples
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 13:55 -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> There was also an ftp site somewhere that had infocom interpreters for 
> linux, and a large archive of the old infocom games...however I forget 
> the site, and don't have the bookmark anymore...
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 
> 07:55:36AM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
> > Hiya,
> > Yes, I've got that package--which was where I got my hands on the original 
> > Rogue, incidentally.  Some of those programs are very amusing indeed--I'm 
> > thinking of fortune, and all that.  Hehe.
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@gmx.net>
> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 5:34 AM
> > Subject: Re: Games and Amusements
> > 
> > 
> > > Have you looked at the bsd-games package? that comes with quite a few
> > > text-based games and other amusing little programs.
> > > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007
> > > at 10:33:31PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
> > >> Howdy,
> > >> I was wondering if anybody might be able to give me an idea of what games 
> > >> and amusements they might be able to successfully access under Linux?  I 
> > >> myself am a big fan of the 'roguelike games', and have found that for the 
> > >> most part Speakup works tolerably well with most of them.  (The only real 
> > >> annoyance I can see is that the keys to move by lines are defaulting to 
> > >> reading the new line--and in the case of a game like Nethack or Rogue 
> > >> that doesn't always make much sense.  I was wondering about a possible 
> > >> feature to toggle the up-down behavior--possibly to read characters, 
> > >> words, or lines as appropriate?
> > >> Also, I was wondering what anybody else on here thinks?  How do you amuse 
> > >> yourselves with Linux?
> > >> Thanks much,
> > >> Zack.
> > >> _______________________________________________
> > >> Speakup mailing list
> > >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > Windows without the X is like making love without a partner.
> > > Sex, Drugs & Linux Rules
> > > win-nt from the people who invented edlin.
> > > Apples  have  meant  trouble  since  eden.
> > > Linux, the way to get rid of boot viruses
> > > -- MaDsen Wikholm, mwikholm@at8.abo.fi
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Speakup mailing list
> > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

Re: Games and Amusements

[Ralph W. Reid]

Anyone interested in interactive fiction might want to check out

http://ifarchive.org/

That site also has an ftp archive of a very large number of IF games,
interpreters, source code, compilers, contest info and winners, and
more.

Enjoy, and have a great day!

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:55:17PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> There was also an ftp site somewhere that had infocom interpreters for 
> linux, and a large archive of the old infocom games...however I forget 
> the site, and don't have the bookmark anymore...
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 
> 07:55:36AM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
> > Hiya,
> > Yes, I've got that package--which was where I got my hands on the original 
> > Rogue, incidentally.  Some of those programs are very amusing indeed--I'm 
> > thinking of fortune, and all that.  Hehe.
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@gmx.net>
> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 5:34 AM
> > Subject: Re: Games and Amusements
> > 
> > 
> > > Have you looked at the bsd-games package? that comes with quite a few
> > > text-based games and other amusing little programs.
> > > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007
> > > at 10:33:31PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
> > >> Howdy,
> > >> I was wondering if anybody might be able to give me an idea of what games 
> > >> and amusements they might be able to successfully access under Linux?  I 
> > >> myself am a big fan of the 'roguelike games', and have found that for the 
> > >> most part Speakup works tolerably well with most of them.  (The only real 
> > >> annoyance I can see is that the keys to move by lines are defaulting to 
> > >> reading the new line--and in the case of a game like Nethack or Rogue 
> > >> that doesn't always make much sense.  I was wondering about a possible 
> > >> feature to toggle the up-down behavior--possibly to read characters, 
> > >> words, or lines as appropriate?
> > >> Also, I was wondering what anybody else on here thinks?  How do you amuse 
> > >> yourselves with Linux?
> > >> Thanks much,
> > >> Zack.
> > >> _______________________________________________
> > >> Speakup mailing list
> > >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > Windows without the X is like making love without a partner.
> > > Sex, Drugs & Linux Rules
> > > win-nt from the people who invented edlin.
> > > Apples  have  meant  trouble  since  eden.
> > > Linux, the way to get rid of boot viruses
> > > -- MaDsen Wikholm, mwikholm@at8.abo.fi

-- 
Ralph.  N6BNO.  Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O.
rreid@sunset.net  http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid
...passing through The City of Internet at the speed of light...
COSEC (x) / SEC (x) = (COTAN (x) / TAN (x)) ^ 2

Re: Games and Amusements

[Alex Snow]

Thanks, that was the site I was thinking of but couldn't find it's url 
anymore...a lot of good stuff there
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 07:34:32AM 
-0700, Ralph W. Reid wrote:
> Anyone interested in interactive fiction might want to check out
> 
> http://ifarchive.org/
> 
> That site also has an ftp archive of a very large number of IF games,
> interpreters, source code, compilers, contest info and winners, and
> more.
> 
> Enjoy, and have a great day!
> 
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:55:17PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> > There was also an ftp site somewhere that had infocom interpreters for 
> > linux, and a large archive of the old infocom games...however I forget 
> > the site, and don't have the bookmark anymore...
> > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 
> > 07:55:36AM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
> > > Hiya,
> > > Yes, I've got that package--which was where I got my hands on the original 
> > > Rogue, incidentally.  Some of those programs are very amusing indeed--I'm 
> > > thinking of fortune, and all that.  Hehe.
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@gmx.net>
> > > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 5:34 AM
> > > Subject: Re: Games and Amusements
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > Have you looked at the bsd-games package? that comes with quite a few
> > > > text-based games and other amusing little programs.
> > > > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007
> > > > at 10:33:31PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
> > > >> Howdy,
> > > >> I was wondering if anybody might be able to give me an idea of what games 
> > > >> and amusements they might be able to successfully access under Linux?  I 
> > > >> myself am a big fan of the 'roguelike games', and have found that for the 
> > > >> most part Speakup works tolerably well with most of them.  (The only real 
> > > >> annoyance I can see is that the keys to move by lines are defaulting to 
> > > >> reading the new line--and in the case of a game like Nethack or Rogue 
> > > >> that doesn't always make much sense.  I was wondering about a possible 
> > > >> feature to toggle the up-down behavior--possibly to read characters, 
> > > >> words, or lines as appropriate?
> > > >> Also, I was wondering what anybody else on here thinks?  How do you amuse 
> > > >> yourselves with Linux?
> > > >> Thanks much,
> > > >> Zack.
> > > >> _______________________________________________
> > > >> Speakup mailing list
> > > >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > > >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > > >
> > > > -- 
> > > > Windows without the X is like making love without a partner.
> > > > Sex, Drugs & Linux Rules
> > > > win-nt from the people who invented edlin.
> > > > Apples  have  meant  trouble  since  eden.
> > > > Linux, the way to get rid of boot viruses
> > > > -- MaDsen Wikholm, mwikholm@at8.abo.fi
> 
> -- 
> Ralph.  N6BNO.  Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O.
> rreid@sunset.net  http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid
> ...passing through The City of Internet at the speed of light...
> COSEC (x) / SEC (x) = (COTAN (x) / TAN (x)) ^ 2
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs.
	-- Dennis Ritchie

Re: Games and Amusements

[Zachary Kline]

Agreed, a good deal of stuff.  I've been an interactive fiction fan for 
years.
Enjoy,
Zack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@gmx.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: Games and Amusements


> Thanks, that was the site I was thinking of but couldn't find it's url
> anymore...a lot of good stuff there
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 07:34:32AM
> -0700, Ralph W. Reid wrote:
>> Anyone interested in interactive fiction might want to check out
>>
>> http://ifarchive.org/
>>
>> That site also has an ftp archive of a very large number of IF games,
>> interpreters, source code, compilers, contest info and winners, and
>> more.
>>
>> Enjoy, and have a great day!
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:55:17PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
>> > There was also an ftp site somewhere that had infocom interpreters for
>> > linux, and a large archive of the old infocom games...however I forget
>> > the site, and don't have the bookmark anymore...
>> > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at
>> > 07:55:36AM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
>> > > Hiya,
>> > > Yes, I've got that package--which was where I got my hands on the 
>> > > original
>> > > Rogue, incidentally.  Some of those programs are very amusing 
>> > > indeed--I'm
>> > > thinking of fortune, and all that.  Hehe.
>> > >
>> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
>> > > From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@gmx.net>
>> > > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
>> > > <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
>> > > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 5:34 AM
>> > > Subject: Re: Games and Amusements
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > > Have you looked at the bsd-games package? that comes with quite a 
>> > > > few
>> > > > text-based games and other amusing little programs.
>> > > > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007
>> > > > at 10:33:31PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
>> > > >> Howdy,
>> > > >> I was wondering if anybody might be able to give me an idea of 
>> > > >> what games
>> > > >> and amusements they might be able to successfully access under 
>> > > >> Linux?  I
>> > > >> myself am a big fan of the 'roguelike games', and have found that 
>> > > >> for the
>> > > >> most part Speakup works tolerably well with most of them.  (The 
>> > > >> only real
>> > > >> annoyance I can see is that the keys to move by lines are 
>> > > >> defaulting to
>> > > >> reading the new line--and in the case of a game like Nethack or 
>> > > >> Rogue
>> > > >> that doesn't always make much sense.  I was wondering about a 
>> > > >> possible
>> > > >> feature to toggle the up-down behavior--possibly to read 
>> > > >> characters,
>> > > >> words, or lines as appropriate?
>> > > >> Also, I was wondering what anybody else on here thinks?  How do 
>> > > >> you amuse
>> > > >> yourselves with Linux?
>> > > >> Thanks much,
>> > > >> Zack.
>> > > >> _______________________________________________
>> > > >> Speakup mailing list
>> > > >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> > > >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>> > > >
>> > > > -- 
>> > > > Windows without the X is like making love without a partner.
>> > > > Sex, Drugs & Linux Rules
>> > > > win-nt from the people who invented edlin.
>> > > > Apples  have  meant  trouble  since  eden.
>> > > > Linux, the way to get rid of boot viruses
>> > > > -- MaDsen Wikholm, mwikholm@at8.abo.fi
>>
>> -- 
>> Ralph.  N6BNO.  Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O.
>> rreid@sunset.net  http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid
>> ...passing through The City of Internet at the speed of light...
>> COSEC (x) / SEC (x) = (COTAN (x) / TAN (x)) ^ 2
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
> -- 
> Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The 
> Labs.
> -- Dennis Ritchie
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

Re: Games and Amusements

[Buddy Brannan]

Believe it or not--

There's actually a commercial interactive fiction company! Yes, they
actually sell text adventures...and, apparently, have gotten good
reviews. 
http://www.malinche.net
-- 
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV
Email: buddy@brannan.name or phone 888-75-BUDDY
>From Kitchen Disaster to Culinary Master, make your meals and baking 
easier and faster: http://www.tastyshop.net
...And see how a Watkins business can improve your life. Read our 
free Ebook: http://www.tastybiz.com

Re[2]: Games and Amusements

[Farhan]

Hello, well if your interested there is always audioquake.
This uses eflite, and you can check it out at
http://agrip.org.uk

On 3/11/2007 at 19:24 Buddy Brannan said
Believe it or not--

There's actually a commercial interactive fiction company! Yes, they
actually sell text adventures...and, apparently, have gotten good
reviews. 
http://www.malinche.net
-- 
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV
Email: buddy@brannan.name or phone 888-75-BUDDY
From Kitchen Disaster to Culinary Master, make your meals and baking 
easier and faster: http://www.tastyshop.net
...And see how a Watkins business can improve your life. Read our 
free Ebook: http://www.tastybiz.com

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Re: games and amusements

[Zachary Kline]

Hiya,
    I've heard of TOME and Angband and the like.  I didn't think much of 
them before, but I'll see what that's like.  Adom is certainly a lot of fun.
I don't use Debian, though I think Gentoo has similar stuff.
Thanks much,
Zack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 2:06 PM
Subject: re: games and amusements


> The tome game is available for debian now source code at
> http://www.t-o-m-e.net tome stands for troubles of middle earth.  I've
> found that game far more challenging than nethack about equal with adom
> ancient domains of mystery.  Nethack is more understandable than tome
> since characters can have multiple descriptions depending on game map
> context.  The most interesting I've found because multiple quests are
> available are adom omega tome and least of the three would be nethack and
> rogue.
>
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re: games and amusements

[Jude DaShiell]

debian has a package almost depricated called int-fiction-installer in its 
archives.  The package hasn't been rebuilt to conform with current debian 
policy which is the reason for the deprication.  What it does once 
installed if you're root and type int-fiction-install update is to get you 
the whole catalog of z games from the internet which you can then search 
on your machine and have theint-fiction package download for you.

re: games and amusements

[Jude DaShiell]

The tome game is available for debian now source code at 
http://www.t-o-m-e.net tome stands for troubles of middle earth.  I've 
found that game far more challenging than nethack about equal with adom 
ancient domains of mystery.  Nethack is more understandable than tome 
since characters can have multiple descriptions depending on game map 
context.  The most interesting I've found because multiple quests are 
available are adom omega tome and least of the three would be nethack and 
rogue.