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console games
console games
Hi.
Does anyone remember playing HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy on their Tandy 1000HX back in the late 80's early 90's?
If so does anyone know where to find that for linux?
Maybe someone knows where there is a copy of Zork for linux? But I confess I have never played it.
Thanks.
Does anyone remember playing HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy on their Tandy 1000HX back in the late 80's early 90's?
If so does anyone know where to find that for linux?
Maybe someone knows where there is a copy of Zork for linux? But I confess I have never played it.
Thanks.
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Usually when people say console nowadays they mean the physical kine, e.g. a PS2, Gamecube or XBox.
I think that console games is also a proper, but largely superseded term for what I would simply call "text games", because not all games are adventure-style.
To answer your original question, I doubt these games are available, expect possibly through emulation, because they were released before Linux was available (at least widely available), and because Linux hasn't had too many games released for it commercially.
There are some popular text games. The most popular is probably Nethack, a dungeon exploration game. I've mainly played it as Falcon's Eye, which is Nethack with a GUI. There are other games like this. I think some names are Moria and Angband, you can surely find others related to these. Also, if you have Synaptic for Debian software installation you can search the entire Games software section.
I think that console games is also a proper, but largely superseded term for what I would simply call "text games", because not all games are adventure-style.
To answer your original question, I doubt these games are available, expect possibly through emulation, because they were released before Linux was available (at least widely available), and because Linux hasn't had too many games released for it commercially.
There are some popular text games. The most popular is probably Nethack, a dungeon exploration game. I've mainly played it as Falcon's Eye, which is Nethack with a GUI. There are other games like this. I think some names are Moria and Angband, you can surely find others related to these. Also, if you have Synaptic for Debian software installation you can search the entire Games software section.
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I used to play a MUD game called Merentha (www.merentha.net). It's an online telnet-based full-text MMORPG. You might be interested in it.
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There is also the old bsd games collection.
# apt-get install bsdgames
# apt-get install bsdgames
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Berkeley Software Distribution. It is a Unix varient originally developed by the University of California.cyborg_o wrote:cool. cool.
what does does bsd mean? please excuse my stupidity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bsd
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http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/index.html
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Or, if you don't like it, check it out on Encyclopedia Dramatica.dawgie wrote:Berkeley Software Distribution. It is a Unix varient originally developed by the University of California.cyborg_o wrote:cool. cool.
what does does bsd mean? please excuse my stupidity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bsd
Arr, ese!
Or, there is also the uncyclopedia:Mexican_Pirate wrote:Or, if you don't like it, check it out on Encyclopedia Dramatica.dawgie wrote:Berkeley Software Distribution. It is a Unix varient originally developed by the University of California.cyborg_o wrote:cool. cool.
what does does bsd mean? please excuse my stupidity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bsd
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/BSD
Debian Sys Admin
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/index.html
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WIKI FIGHT!!!dawgie wrote:Or, there is also the uncyclopedia:Mexican_Pirate wrote:Or, if you don't like it, check it out on Encyclopedia Dramatica.dawgie wrote:
Berkeley Software Distribution. It is a Unix varient originally developed by the University of California.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bsd
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/BSD
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