Text based games for FreeBSD

[Jamie]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 07:42:12PM -0400, Allen wrote:
> 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.

Here are some games I have installed, text-only. 

alienwave     Shoot'em up game written using ncurses
aop           A curses based arcade game with only 64 lines of code
avanor        Rogue-like game with easy ADOM-like user interface
block         Small text based maze game
cavezofphear  Boulder Dash / Digger-like game written using ncurses

freebsd-games FreeBSD-modified "Standard" BSD games
	(Lots of them here, classics like "trek")

freesweep     Minesweeper-style game for text-mode terminals
galaxis       Clone of the nifty little Macintosh game
greed-game    A text puzzle game with the aim of clearing the game field

hunt          Rogue-like multiplayer game
	(This one is kind of fun, but very hard to find a partner!)

nInvaders     The nIvaders game is a Space Invaders clone for ncurses
nibbles       Nibbles is a simple ncurses-based console game
pentix        This is a game of pentix for terminals
plonx         A small ascii puzzle game
seabattle     A curses based battleship type game
sokoban       Logical game: problems with packets in cave
ztrack        Simple ncurses based pseudo-3D driving game

gnuchess      GNU Chess
	(this is HARD!)

> 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.

I was into collecting terminal-based games for awhile. Some of them are
actually quite fun. BSD tetris for example (though it seems awful slow
on an NFS filesystem for some reason)

Seems to me, someone created a curses based "DOOM" game at one point as
well, but I can't seem to find it.

hunt is fun, but it's difficult to find someone to play it with. (I
don't have much practice)

One problem is terminal I/O, some of them are just not practical over
a 9600 baud serial line...

Have fun!

Jamie
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