Sometimes back I wrote about the backgammon terminal game that comes with the bsd-games package found in many Linux distros (and *BSDs of course). Another little game I really like is the text-interface card game version of Go Fish. It…
A nice little console game of backgammon. The controls are simple but a bit awkward: Suppose you are red and rolled (by pressing Space) a 6 and a 4. Then you could enter 12-18,17-21 to move one piece from 12…
Simon Tatham wrote an excellent set of puzzle games. There’s actually quite a lot of them and the executables are all named without prefix, so it’s hard to remember them all. I think Debian/Ubuntu add .desktop-entries for the application menu.…
Most geek culture aficionados know the bash.org Quote Database. It’s hilarious mostly. For all those of you working on the console most of the time and in need for a quick chuckle now and then (like myself) is the following…
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