On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.di...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:38 AM, Richard Loken <rllo...@telus.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Feb 2016, Mouse wrote: > > > >>> Computer games require all you can give them [...] > >> > >> Only if your idea of "games" is "slick-looking realtime 3D-rendering > >> games". There are lots of games that work perfectly well on 3100-class > >> (and even slower) machines, such as roguelikes (rogue, larn, hack, > >> etc), text adventures (ADVENT, DUNGEON, etc), phantasia, Seahaven, > >> Klondike...the list is long. > > > > But those are Computer Games! Not computer games. It is a long time > > since I have played rogue. > > I've been meaning to ask this question since I started cleaning up > terminals this year... what are some favorites? Some of the obvious > classics are: > > Adventure > Zork (and anything else on a Zmachine) > Scott Adams Adventures > Wumpus > Anything in Dave Ahl's "101 BASIC Computing Games" > Empire > Star Trek > rogue/hack > Larn/Ularn > > But what are some other favorites? I've been running a monthly > "retrogaming night" at our Makerspace and so far have brought out a > C-64, a PPC Mac, and an 8032 PET. I'm looking to add a PDP-8 (via > Oscar Vermuelen's PiDP-8, for portability) and (at first) a simh RT-11 > box and/or VAX running VMS, though I have plenty of real DEC gear - > it's a matter of transport and storage space). I have a VT220 and an > IBM 3101 (very VT52-like with a working terminfo entry) already on > site and can add additional terminals if this becomes popular (I may > drag in a VT52 just for the excuse to clean one up). > > I have the Commodore end pretty well covered. I'm looking for > suggestions for 80x24 text games that can be played on an ANSI (VT100) > terminal and especially non-ANSI (VT52 or that IBM 3101) on > Unix/Linux, VMS, and RT-11. So in general, anything that uses curses > or direct ANSI sequences or just spews text to a glass tty. > > -ethan > I never checked, I did not know there were VAX games that you could download/compile and run locally. One of my VAXen has BASIC installed, but most are mostly file servers. I'd like to learn more myself. -- @ BillDeg: Web: vintagecomputer.net Twitter: @billdeg <https://twitter.com/billdeg> Youtube: @billdeg <https://www.youtube.com/user/billdeg> Unauthorized Bio <http://www.vintagecomputer.net/readme.cfm>