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@xxxxxxx> 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at 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 at at8.abo.fi > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
