Oh, and don't forget all the text adventure games. It's not for nothing that there are z-interpreter's ported to every OS under the sun. Joshua Jore Minneapolis Ward 3, precinct 10 "The irony of this man being imprisoned in the United States and longing to return to once-Communist Russia so he can regain his right to free speech is simply staggering." - Paul Cantrell, St Paul area software developer On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Mike White wrote: > >Does anyone know where I can find sources or binaries > > >(preferably sources) of shell based Linux games? > > Excellent! You can't be a true Unix Geek without > playing Rogue. And I'm sure Wally the Wonder Badger > would like to have a bit of company ;) > > My personal favorite is Omega - although the first > prototypical First Person Shooter, hack, certainly is > on the list. > > The really cool thing about tty based games, is that > it illustrates that it's not just fancy graphics and > sound that makes a game. (I'm not knockin' em - but > there's a reason people still play chess or Scrabble.) > > Anyhow, here you go: > ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.games/ > > On a less prostelyzing note, the other comp.sources > groups are there, too. comp.sources.unix is a great > place to find other useful utilities. > > Cheers- > -Mike > > (And remember, all good things come from Usenet.) > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. > http://phone.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >