Re: [Freedos-devel] Text adventures

2006-12-21 Thread Blair Campbell
Seal is not in the distro because there are very few useful programs written for it, and it in my experience is highly unstable compared to GEM or even FloX's OzoneGUI (which both have much better file managers than SEAL imho as well). On 12/21/06, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Blair

Re: [Freedos-devel] Text adventures

2006-12-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Blair, Markku, there is a simple solution for your problem: Add the games to the DOS GAMES distro on bootablecd.de :-) That distro contains both open and closed source games. The "normal" FreeDOS distro focuses more on non-game categories anyway. By the way, yesterday we found out that the SEAL

Re: [Freedos-devel] Text adventures

2006-12-20 Thread Markku Yli-Pentila
Hello, In if-archive there are also open-source games not included, eg. Adventure (precedessor of Zork 1-3), Colossal Cave, etc. Also many text adventure development systems like TADS, Inform, Hugo, Agility/Magx etc are open-source and compiled under DOS. in /ifarchive/games/source and /if-arch

Re: [Freedos-devel] Text adventures

2006-12-20 Thread Blair Campbell
Nethack is already in FreeDOS 1.0. Also, I prefer not to include shareware/free-closed-source games, but to promote open-source DOS games in the distro instead. Nethack is open-source. On 12/19/06, Markku Yli-Pentila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > I wonder nobody has suggested text ad

[Freedos-devel] Text adventures

2006-12-19 Thread Markku Yli-Pentila
Hello all, I wonder nobody has suggested text adventures as one of FreeDOS games. There is good place http://www.ifarchive.org where text adventures - free and shareware) can be found. There is also a lot of text adventure making systems. At least for blind these are best DOS games that can be p