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Only if you haven‘t dealt with licenses. This software was published without a license.
It's a wonder the software's authors, users, and distributors have evaded dire legal consequences all these decades.
Anyone here play xevil ?
To make it playable singleplayer on a keyboard with no keypad: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/xevil
There was a Curses version of Trek called "universe" that I was obsessed with, back in the day, but I've never been able to find it again.
Classic FTP sites with UNix software don't have it. Was it for Unix? ESR has a Python 3 port of Super Star Trek which has been enhanced a lot: https://gitlab.com/esr/super-star-trek another one from SDF: https://git.sdf.org/anthonyg/super-startrek.git
Thanks for the links. I couldn't quite tell if that was a text game like bsdgames trek, or a curses game like Rogue.
Before xtrek and eventually netrek, there was hunt: https://techtinkering.com/2009/08/11/my-top-10-classic-text-... you might think that games back then were slow but this one was fast paced mayhem. using the vi commands was perfect.
Talking about netrek, I read that it originated in a game called Empire on PLATO (not the one played on rec.games.empire). I wonder if this game be played somehow these days? Btw the game hunt with destructable regrowing mazes is still being distributed in the bsd-games package today.
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Hey Anthk, if you ported it to a Zmachine, does it mean is it like an interactive fiction game (aventura conversacional in spanish). Is it in the CAAD archive?
No is not a text adventure game; it just runs under the ZMachine. You have several other examples at IFDB, such as Tetris, Robots Find Kitten, Madbomber... I did internally as a translation at https://caja.texto-plano.xyz/anthk/zgames/spa/trek/ in order to provide a quick translated Trek game. Yes, I could use some Basic SST port but this made the game universally playable. It isn't a IF game because it doesn't use t…
Reads like ChatGPT wrote it.
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Talking about netrek, I read that it originated in a game called Empire on PLATO (not the one played on rec.games.empire). I wonder if this game be played somehow these days? Btw the game hunt with destructable regrowing mazes is still being distributed in the bsd-games package today.
You can play Empire on cyber1 [1], an emulated PLATO system. [1] https://www.cyber1.org
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Talking about netrek, I read that it originated in a game called Empire on PLATO (not the one played on rec.games.empire). I wonder if this game be played somehow these days? Btw the game hunt with destructable regrowing mazes is still being distributed in the bsd-games package today.
Empire was a blast. Top players instinctively knew how ships would move and would key in commands much much faster than the display would update. One second you are in orbit, the next refresh you are dead and the planet has been taken. Empire was responsible for a lot of 5th year seniors back in the 80.
https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-current/...
In addition, SBo (Slackware equivalent to BSD's port system with 3rd party software) offers nbsd-games, a series of classic Unix games with a ncurses interface:
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/games/nbsdgames/
It's nice to see true classics being preserved in one of those packages.
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No is not a text adventure game; it just runs under the ZMachine. You have several other examples at IFDB, such as Tetris, Robots Find Kitten, Madbomber... I did internally as a translation at https://caja.texto-plano.xyz/anthk/zgames/spa/trek/ in order to provide a quick translated Trek game. Yes, I could use some Basic SST port but this made the game universally playable. It isn't a IF game because it doesn't use t…
Cool. Thanks for sharing it! I am going to play. Regarding instructions, I will find my way, but other less computer savvy users might need a README there. See you in USENET!
https://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/ztrek.z5 English version.
For instance: frotz ztrek.z5
Or Winfrotz under Windows, or Lectrote for any OS.
By pressing '9' you get the online help, in any language. Have fun.