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 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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