From: Jonathan Calloway ------------------------------------------------------ Greetings! The other day on a podcast I heard some folks waxing nostalgic about the old text adventure games. I remember playing these when I was a teenager, but only on paper, as someone had written them out. However, it got me wondering if there are text adventure games that could be played in the terminal. I realize this can be googled, however, I thought it might make for good conversation on the list. Jonathan Calloway

=============================================================== From: "Alex Smith (K4RNT)" ------------------------------------------------------ I think the Infocom text adventure interpreter Frotz is available on all OS= es. On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 06:01, Jonathan Calloway wrote:

=============================================================== From: Eric Wolf ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/ There is also an entire subculture of interactive fiction authors. http://www.ifarchive.org/ -Eric -=3D--=3D---=3D----=3D----=3D---=3D--=3D-=3D--=3D---=3D----=3D---=3D--=3D-= =3D- Eric B. Wolf 720-334-7734 On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: e

=============================================================== From: "Alex Smith (K4RNT)" ------------------------------------------------------ Interactive fiction... good memories. :) -=3D- =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 720-334-7734 he

=============================================================== From: James Doepp ------------------------------------------------------ My favorite from my college days (in the mid-1980s) is rogue: http://rogue.rogueforge.net/. We used to spend all night playing this exciting fantasy game... In Arch Linux (which I use) it's in the aur repository. I think in Ubuntu it's included in the bsdgames-nonfree package. -jim