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