Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome

On 2025-05-05, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Mon, 5 May 2025 08:36:03 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>

The text games required a level of patience most people don't have
nowadays. They also more or less demanded that you create maps, take
notes and so on. My nerd cousin could do it, but no one else was willing
to.

>
I didn't have the patience back in the day either. I remember one based on
'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'.  I didn't care that much for the
book and I never got further than a bulldozer driving through Ford
Prefect's house or something like that.

Some of the stuff in those books was really funny. I read them all (and the
Dirk Gently series as well). But there were a lot of dry (boring) passages
in these books also. I found out later it was because it was originally a
series of radio broadcasts and Douglas Adams was supposed to fill in the
connection between the different broadcasts to make the novels. He tended to
procrastinate and then quick (pretty dry) writing. Overall, however, I
enjoyed reading these books, especially the first one.

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-
galaxy-42#download

I tried that one also. I managed to get to the Vogon ship and that was about
it.

I think I had a low rent version of Zork on CP/M and never got far in that
one either.

I think I first tried Zork on a DEC Rainbow 100, which had two CPUs and ran
two OSes, CP/M and some kind of MS-DOS that wasn't completely compatible
with most MS-DOS applications (if I remember right). I only had that
computer for a few months, but enjoyed playing around with it for a while. I
think the Zork game was on the CP/M side, but I can't remember for sure.

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