You missed that Jude was providing the correct package name to my
earlier confusion.
On 4/5/2023 16:55, Travis Siegel wrote:
What did you think would happen?
On my kali linux box, it happily installed bsdgames.
On my ubuntu 18.04 box, it happily installed bsdgames.
On my ubuntu 2004 box, it happily installed bsdgames.
What did I miss?
On 4/4/2023 8:23 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
No. Try apt install bsdgames and see what happens.
-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that
order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.
btw, I have that package on my debian bookworm system now.
On Tue, 4 Apr 2023, john wrote:
Package doesn't install on Debian Bookworm or latest Raspberry Pi:
E: Unable to locate package BSD_games
E: Unable to locate package bsd-games
Is that something one would have to download separately?
On 4/4/2023 19:56, Travis Siegel wrote:
Linux command line games do exist, and in spades.
One way to get a whole heap of them is to install the package called
BSD_games. That will get you several interesting games, almost all
of which
can be played with a screen reader.
There's also the text adventure games on various systems, AGT,
ADVSYS, inform,
and others.
You can also play games like nethack, umoria, rogue, and other clones
with a
bit of work, though that's not as easy as some of the other games.
Also, there are a couple of trek variants, and other text games such as
battlestar galactica, dinkdum (or something similar, can't remember the
spelling off the top of my head), wumpus, and loads more. I also (at
one
point) ported the helicopter game put out something like 20 years ago to
osx/linux if you wanted to play an audio game. I still have that
code around
here somewhere, I can dig it out and repost it if folks don't have
it, or want
it again. You need to have the SFML development kit/software
installed, but
it works just as well now as it did then.
Oh, So many games you can play on linux, and so many more that can be
made to
work.
Linux isn't the playground windows is, but it's far from barren when
it comes
to accessible games for the visually impaired players.
On 4/4/2023 6:50 PM, Christy S wrote:
This is OT I know, however it's a response to people's comments on
linux.
Also, it might be relevant, if anyone knows any decent linux command
line
games. I'm sure they're out there and would be curious if anyone
does know
of some. They could be good when I just want to mess around with
something
that isn't audio based.
I wanted to chime in not to forget about WSL when you're talking about
linux. Depending on what you want to do, you can probably accomplish
it on
WSL, and be able to use your windows screen reader while you're at
it. The
install has gotten tons easier, too. I remember the days of hating
to use
remote linux boxes, because nothing would use ssh and read properly
when
trying to edit config files and so forth. Now, I just pull up wsl,
ssh in,
use nano and I'm good to go. The real advantage though is the
ability to use
most, not all but most, linux command line things right from within
windows.
Last I knew, you couldn't easily get audio from a wsl instance but it's
possible that's changed by now.
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