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Date:      Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:55:42 -0700
From:      Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org>
To:        Allen <GedankeZauberer@comcast.net>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Text based games for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <e277d6c80909101455s15dac845neb554fcf6f6c3552@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4AA83D54.5070307@comcast.net>
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On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Allen <GedankeZauberer@comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been looking at the games area of the FreeBSD FTP server, and I'm
> wondering if anyone here can tell me which games are text only, kind of like
> how Net Hack is, but some graphics would be Ok too.
>
> More or less I'd like to get some more games that will run on older
> hardware. I know there is an X version of Nethack, and that was fine for the
> machine in question, but are there any others either text based or not very
> graphics intense? Any type of game is fine.
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Since other people have mentioned a few of their favorite text based games,
I figured I'd chime in too. :)

Check out angband. It's kind of nethacky, but there's less lore so it's
easier for new players to get into. <3 angband.

-- randi



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