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krzysz00
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18 Aug 2010, 11:35 am

Does anyone else here play (even casually, like me) some of the games off of the Unix retro part of the universe (Adventure, Zork, Nethack, Netrek (actually a really nice game, and has graphics), MUDs, etc.). I;m just wondering as this section of the net.world collides two obscurities, Unixen and retro games.


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18 Aug 2010, 1:42 pm

Well I do enjoy the MS-DOS ports of Rogue and Infocom games if that counts.

I tried playing Adventure, but it doesn't tell you what direction things are, and I got tired of guessing random cardinals. Maybe I'm just missing something.


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18 Aug 2010, 2:15 pm

SabbraCadabra wrote:
Well I do enjoy the MS-DOS ports of Rogue and Infocom games if that counts.
MS-DOS: Just say no!
SabbraCadabra wrote:
I tried playing Adventure, but it doesn't tell you what direction things are, and I got tired of guessing random cardinals. Maybe I'm just missing something.

but seriously, that's cool. Glad I'm not the only one.


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29 Aug 2010, 7:39 pm

I loved playing the Zork series, though I havent for a fair while. Also I played them on DOS, I didn't know UNIX existed back when I first played them!



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30 Aug 2010, 12:14 pm

Awesome av :wink:


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05 Sep 2010, 10:08 am

I play some nethack here and there.