User:Chris Chittleborough/Text-based

Articles which relate to "text-based" games, applications, etc

About Games

• Text game
• List of text based games
• Online text-based role-playing game
• List of Text-Based MMORPGs
• Turn-Based MMORPG
• List of Turn-Based MMORPGs

• CVAR, a game setting that can be manipulated via an in-game CLI
• Vulture's, graphical interfaces for TBGs NetHack and Slash'EM
• WASD, contrast to HJKL in older TB games

Types of Game

• Interactive fiction (AKA Text adventure game(s), Text adventure(s), Text based adventures, Text based adventure game, Interactive Storytelling Game and variants, Interactive text,
• MOO
• Simming (AKA Star Trek Text-Based Role Playing Games; collaborative fan-fiction etc)
• Turn-Based MMORPG

Individual Games or Series

• Armageddon (MUD)
• Rising Star (Babylon 5) episode inspired a TB ORPG
• Carnage Blender, a TB MMORPG
• DragonRealms, a commerical MUD by Simutronics
• Epic RPG, a TB ORPG
• Falcon's Eye, the graphical NetHack
• Fantasy Empires, a TBOG of some kind
• Federation (game), a 1988 TBOG for Compunet
• Federation II, a MUD-like game
• GemStone IV, a commercial MUD by Simutronics
• Havocs-Realm, a TBOG of some kind
• ID (video game), a 1986 TBG
• Kallistimud, a MUD
• LegendMUD, a MUD
• Lords of Lords, a TB MMORPG
• Mechz, a TB MMORPG
• Modus Operandi RPG, a commercial MUD by Simutronics
• Nordicmafia, a TBOG
• Out of the Park Baseball, a TB baseball sim
• Political game (mentions Senate Seeker, a TB online simulation)
• Radical Dreamers, a 1996 text adventure (or TB RPG) for a Nintendo
• Realms of Wonder, a MUD (also the name of a "comic book tracking system")
• ScriptersRPG, a TBOG
• The Five Pillars, a TB MMOG
• TNM (computer game), a TB pro wrestling simulation
• TOS TrekMUSE, a MUSE
• Tycoon Online, a TBOG

Applications

• cscope, TB or GUI
• Diakonos, a text editor
• ELinks, a TB web browser
• Elm (email client)
• KOM, a BBS
• Minicom, a modem control and VT102/ANSI emulator
• slrn, a newsreader
• SPIRES, a TB bibliographic database
• SlipKnot (web browser)
• Tin (newsreader)
• USAS (application), a series of OLTP systems
• w3m, a web browser

Other

• AIX operating system - its GUI System Management Console, fails over to a TB alternative if X is not up
• Curses (programming library)
• Delphi online service used to be TB
• Free-Net, a (generic name for a) text-based (no PPP) dialup network service)
• FTP ("Basic text-based FTP clients come with many operating system")
• Serial over LAN - connect to a PC's serial port via a LAN
• Text based
• Text mode
• Text user interface
• The Source (service), like WELL