Agreed, a good deal of stuff. I've been an interactive fiction fan for years. Enjoy, Zack. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@xxxxxxx> 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. >> > > >> _______________________________________________ >> > > >> 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 >> >> -- >> Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. >> rreid at 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 at 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 at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
