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Some *nix-like text games (Users)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 21.07.2013, 01:37

> Thanx for the additional info. Do you have any additional links by the
> chance? :)

Anything specific in mind? There are thousands of roguelikes, and I couldn't keep track of them all even if I tried. A lot of links and discussion can be found in news://rec.games.roguelike.*.

Angband
Angband variants
Zangband
Gumband

Moria (FPC)
BOSS (FPC)

Nethack
SLASH 'EM
Falcon's Eye

A.D.O.M.
Iter Vehemens Ad Necem
Kroz
Larn
Omega
Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup (old)
DosGames.com RPGs (many older versions, e.g. DoomRL)

Most of these definitely should still have DOS ports lying around somewhere (at least older versions, or maybe?? can be compiled for DOS).

> > Honestly, this list of ports wasn't that comprehensive.
>
> Probably. :) Those are only open source games, as I see. No legacy unix
> stuff (some of which might be available under Lucent or BSD licenses).

"Open source" is a very generic (misused) terminology. Usually people ("in the know") only use that for OSI-approved stuff. "Free software" dislikes the term (and existence) of such, though, so they both don't always agree with how "free" or "open" something is.

As for *BSD, the "Rogue" included in NetBSD these days is "Rogue Clone", not the original Rogue. It's license is a bit confusing, so I'm not totally sure it's free/libre at all (even if sources are available).

Complete thread:

• Some *nix-like text games - bocke, 13.07.2013, 22:41 (Users)
  • Some *nix-like text games - Rugxulo, 15.07.2013, 19:18
    • Some *nix-like text games - bocke, 17.07.2013, 16:40
      • Some *nix-like text games - Rugxulo, 21.07.2013, 01:37
        • Some *nix-like text games - bocke, 21.07.2013, 17:53