Don't forget about ADOM and Nethack! Great roguelikes.
On Aug 4, 2020, at 11:07, Jessica <jelynnar.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Long post. If your not interested in gaming or edbrowse. Probably good to
skip this one.
Sorry I ramble at times.
Hello. Actually the games I was referring too were web based. And no no sound.
The legend of the green dragon http://lotgd.net
and Furry Paws http://furry-paws.com
I believe talk about gaming is allowed as long as it relates to the pi.
I don't play many games with sound.
I keep reading/hearing about steam. But I don't know if that works under
linux or if it is accessible or not.
I generally stay in the command line. Because that is what I prefer.
Games I know can be played are your standard text adventures. I keep
forgetting the client I would recommend for those. Has an odd name.
But for those you have inform/zcode and tads.
I also played around with another system. But it was a while back.
But it also worked under linux.
With speakup working. or fenrir if you like that screen reader. Or with
brltty. I believe you have a ton of games to mess with.
Both online and off.
I know there are games for linux. But I believe most of them are GUI. And
GUI's and I have a war against each other.
Plus I can never get sound to work politely on my linux machines. So
generally the only sound I get is speakup unless I turn it off or kill it
while listening to an audio file.
Emacspeak and espeakup speak at the same time lol which is kind of cool. But
I can't seem to play audio at the same time as speech.
But really I am more about your common computer every day stuff more than
getting all technical.
Although I have friends who would say I am a pro in tech stuff. I don't think
so.
Sound under linux drives me crazy. It either works or it doesn't. And I don't
have the interest or apparently the knowledge to be able to fix any issues
with sound to make things work better.
Also generally I don't like games with sound in them anyway. For me its
distracting.
A really good source for anything really on linux is the arch linux wiki.
Of course don't exclude the ability to search the whole web.
But when I get stuck I generally will visit the arch wiki or the arch user
repository for package info.
I however run raspbian. I thought of installing arch on here. But bleh lol.
Why should I. Things are working just how I like.
Back to the games I mentioned.
I was trying to say. They are web-based games and they work great with
edbrowse.
Edbrowse is an editor/email reader/web browser.
I am still trying other web based games.
I believe age of fable works nicely except I haven't figured out how to save
the link to continue on with the game once your ready to stop.
Kingdom of loathing doesn't work with edbrowse. Although I don't understand
why as it mostly works with lynx.
I installed the latest version of edbrowse after removing the raspbian
version.
And some issues I was having are definitely gone or improved.
So if your up to it and use edbrowse. You may want to install it from the git
repository and see if that helps.
Back to gaming.
Muds are a ton out there. and they all work with a mud client.
I use tintin from tt.sf.net or is it tintin.sf.net
In any case. If your a good scripter I believe you can make sound triggers
work with that.
I know someone did it for alter aeon. But again the sound compatibility
seemed to be a challenge.
Not sure why the project disappeared or if it did.
But I currently dabble with 5 or 6 different muds using tintin.
But I don't need sound to enjoy the games.
I know this was a mish mash. But yeah you could technially make anything work
on raspbian.
Find what works for you and hunt things down. Try things out.
Back to my thinking of installing arch. I realized that probably even on arch
I would be installing emacspeak by scratch.
So lol. Just stick with what I have.
And I would probably instal tintin from source. And edbrowse from source just
like I did on raspbian here.
So for me its not worth it.
Games.
http://ifarchive.org I believe is a whole bunch of text gaming stuff.
I am considering going through the code on some of those if its open source
to revive them for the command line. As some just aren't being updated
anymore making the loss of some games and their compilers/interpreters very
very sad.
I know this wasn't very helpful.
But maybe I helped a bit.
I believe given enough time and desire. Anyone can make or find anything to
work for them using the raspberry pi.
I disagree that pi is just for projects. I use it for my gaming machine and
email and whatever else I need a computer for.
But hey since I love the command line and programs that work in the command
line this works for me.
One probably wouldn't get as smooth of an experience using the GUI.
Oh back to edbrowse. If anyone tries to install it from git.
You will need the readline-dev package for raspbian and probably debian too.
And I got tidy from git as well just to make things a little more up to date.
I tried to do duktape from git. But that didn't go so well for me for some
reason. So I reinstalled the raspbian packages for that.
But I mention you need the readline-dev package. Beyond that the README file
for edbrowse instllation from source is pretty easy and straightforward.
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