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*You have a computing machine from 1980's and you wonder how you can use it? <br/>
You are a bored sysadmin with no work, and need to kill time looking busy with terminal? <br/>
You have Plan9 dual-booted with OpenBSD and have kept the OpenBSD just for gaming? <br/>
Your port of Linux to a fancy platform has no GUI, but you still want to find a use for it?<br/>
You the DSL developer and have cancelled the project because you lacked games? <br/>
You have to make a Reversi AI for your homework and you don't know where to copy it from? <br/>
Your port of Linux to a fancy platform has no GUI, but you still want nice screenshots?<br/>
You have been so excited about the bsdgames, but have grown tired of playing tetris, snake and robots for billions of times? <br/>
Are you feeling that betrayed you by bundling stuff like phantasia in a package you expected to contain GAMES?*<br/>
Are you feeling that betrayed you by bundling stuff like phantasia in a package you expected to contain GAMES?<br/>
Did you come here thinking it is bsdgames?*<br/>
**Don't worry** anymore as you've got nbsdgames now!
The games include:
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* Battleship
* SOS
* Rabbithole (A maze-exploring game where you have to gather items from all around the maze rather than reaching an end, the idea maybe mine)
* Pipes (Same as the famous Pipe Mania, unplayable on the environments that don't support the line characters)
* Pipes (Same as the famous Pipe Mania)
* Fifteen
* Memoblocks (or Memory blocks. A similar game was included in Windows 7)
* Fisher
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The difficulty and/or dimensions are adjustable through simple command line options, you can play a minesweeper game that take hours to complete, or exprience hexadecimal sudoku and 8x8 fifteen-like puzzles!
Or just enter "nbsdgames" at your terminal to get a fancy menu and play all sorts of games from there.
*Or just enter "nbsdgames" at your terminal to get a fancy menu and play all sorts of games from there.*
Play on xterm for best experience.
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make
sudo make install # or use the binaries already compiled
```
## Platforms
They natively run on Linux, BSD, MacOS and are known to work on Windows as well (using PDCurses, thanks to Laura Michaels for providing advice).
## Packages
It's on almost every repo by now: Debian (and other DEBs), OpenSUSE (and other RPMs), AUR, Alpine, FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonflyBSD, Minix, Homebrew (MacOSX) and more
https://repology.org/project/nbsdgames/versions
Thanks to Elias Riedel Gårding, Zinjanthropus, Gürkan Myczko, Robert Clausecker, Sam James, and so many other nice people for packaging.
They also gave back code and useful feedback.
## Other Platforms
They are known to work on Windows as well (using PDCurses, thanks to Laura Michaels for providing advice).
They have been ported to Plan9 thanks to Jens Staal!
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They should theoretically work on OS/2 as well but I have not verified that yet.
## Packages
It is now on Debian unstable and soon on your Debian-derived distros, just install the deb from here until it gets to your repo.
## Dependencies
Thanks to Gürkan Myczko for packaging.
* git (optional)
* POSIX make (optional)
* A C compiler with C99 enabled
* The standard library
* ncurses (libncurses5-dev if you are on debian-based distros)
It's available on Arch (AUR) thanks to Elias Riedel Gårding: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nbsdgames-git/
(The commands start with nb to avoid name conflict)
To install them all on debian-base :
It's been made available for rpm distros thanks to Zinjanthropus: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:Zinjanthropus/nbsdgames
``` sh
sudo apt install git make gcc libncurses5-dev
```
## How to build
It's available on pkgsrc (default on NetBSD, Minix, supports everything else) thanks to nia: https://pkgsrc.se/games/nbsdgames
1) Download the files
2) Go to the sources directory
3) Install
It's available on homebrew (package manager for Linux people using Mac OSX, and Linux people using OSX using Linux) thanks to kind strangers: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/nbsdgames
Like this:
``` sh
git clone https://github.com/abakh/nbsdgames
cd ./nbsdgames
make
sudo make install # or use the binaries already compiled
```
It's available on FreeBSD thanks to Robert Clausecker https://www.freshports.org/games/nbsdgames/
## How do these look like
Linux+xterm+tmux
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* Tell me your feature requests, bug reports, etc.
* Tell me the games you want to be added (but in the same genre, I can't port Angry Birds to curses! :)
* Make a package for your distro (or put it on repos if the package is not there)
* Getting it to Redhat and SUSE repos would be nice.
* Getting it to Redhat and OpenBSD repos would be nice.
* Tell distro developers to consider adding these as default games, nbsdgames packs a lot of fun games in a few hundreds of kilobytes.
Also thank to all the people who helped in the previous versions, all what I requested was done! I didn't expect such an amount of assistance on this project :heart:
Also thanks to all the people who helped in the previous versions, all what I requested was done! I didn't expect such an amount of assistance on this project :heart: