From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 10 22:20:22 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3152B1065670 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:20:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sektie@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f208.google.com (mail-ew0-f208.google.com [209.85.219.208]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF0058FC12 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:20:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy4 with SMTP id 4so580011ewy.36 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:20:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type; bh=diFrB7G9AOT1ctou+hDlUzMY42yPAafBPCRlrW0f8IU=; b=m2uX+t8uQVZ9FvPCzAJzCE6KSnQc4eugo5LHvQtfR8In89DnkiSjm1bcHtsz6MCJeS /DgXsVf02XYgI6f25RJ5PNBNbA7nZBf74VSCl8beYlqpR4rgZf6vh8d9xNq3oxh91piy G9n+YqRZCXUN1yLFCKEM1Kf81NTGNdtEdbk/s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=oqgeq+CdsNzmTcHRKvTcZKsrt6zl2RwotXL3kv127Ago+VDRwayLs/99G7qaT6jVfQ s0/1MP84TKVm5O2IgWs/HW/wF4HDQbkIwRpZjXrRL00LUplxC/arH4JufpI3MRq9eklV Gz36Tr4KKZFiNeVGrE/u1BHtMBwyhGRhdUt5E= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: sektie@gmail.com Received: by 10.211.161.39 with SMTP id n39mr2407539ebo.29.1252619742044; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:55:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4AA83D54.5070307@comcast.net> References: <4AA83D54.5070307@comcast.net> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:55:42 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 41e99b60c5bc10e0 Message-ID: From: Randi Harper To: Allen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Text based games for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:20:22 -0000 On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Allen 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > 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