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 at gmx.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at 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.
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