User:Chris Chittleborough/Text-based

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

About Games

• Audio game - contrast to video game and text game
• 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
• Wes Platt
• Powergaming
• Rising Star (Babylon 5) episode inspired a TB ORPG

Types of Game

• AOL chatroom game (AKA AOL battler) mostly TB
• Forum 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,
• List of text based games
• List of Text-Based MMORPGs
• List of Turn-Based MMORPGs
• MIRC game - IRC games written in mIRC script; some are TB
• MOO
• Online text-based role-playing game
• Simming (AKA Star Trek Text-Based Role Playing Games; collaborative fan-fiction etc)
• Text game
• Turn-Based MMORPG

Individual Games or Series

• Age of Chaos, a TB MMORPG
• Armageddon (MUD)
• Blood of Britain, a NRPGN game
• Carnage Blender, a TB MMORPG
• Chibot Ultra Battle, a TB AOL chatroom game
• CoolMUD
• DartMUD
• DragonRealms, a commerical MUD by Simutronics
• Dynasty Warriors, a NRPGN game
• Epic RPG, a TB ORPG
• Falcon's Eye, the graphical NetHack
• Famicom Tantei Club Part II: Ushiro ni Tatsu Shoujo, a 1989 TB mystery game
• 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
• Legends of Kallisti, a MUD
• LegendMUD, a MUD
• Lords of Lords, a TB MMORPG
• Mechz, a TB MMORPG
• Modus Operandi RPG, a commercial MUD by Simutronics
• Music Maven, a TB MMORPG about the music industry
• Newage3, a TB MMORPG (WRONG: it's a browser based SF MMORPG with top-down-viewpoint graphics)
• 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 Kaos, a MMORPG or "graphical MUD" with lots of text and some images
• Realms of Wonder, a MUD (also the name of a "comic book tracking system")
• ScriptersRPG, a TBOG
• Solaris RPG Online, a MMORPG which was/is TB
• Space Federation, a series of MMOGs, one a TB MMORPG
• Spaceminers, SpaceMiners is a tick-based MMOG with "a text and graphic interface using your normal Internet Browser"
• The Five Pillars, a TB MMOG
• The Lost Crown of Queen Anne, a 1987 TBG
• Threshold RPG, a MUD
• TNM (computer game), a TB pro wrestling simulation
• TOS TrekMUSE, a MUSE
• Tycoon Online, a TBOG
• Valhalla (computer game), a 1983 game which used both text and graphics
• War of the Races, a NRPGN game
• Xaos MUD, a MUD
• Yankee Trader, a BBS door game

Types of Application

• List of e-mail clients#Text-based
• List of FTP clients
• List of FTP servers - 2 lists: graphical and text-based
• List of news clients#Text-based

Applications

• Citadel (Groupware), a Unix BBS with many front ends, including a "TUI"
• cscope, TB or GUI
• C-Net DS2, a 1986 BBS system for C64s
• Diakonos, a text editor
• ELinks, a TB web browser
• Elm (email client)
• ICQ (an instant-messaging app); article mentions centericq, which is TB
• Lily (CMC) a TB Computer-mediated communication system
• Lynx (web browser)
• KOM, a BBS
• Minicom, a modem control and VT102/ANSI emulator
• Mutt (email client)
• Quaero, a European Internet search engine for multimedia, "not ... a TB SE"
• slrn, a newsreader
• SPIRES, a TB bibliographic database
• SlipKnot (web browser)
• Tin (newsreader)
• USAS (application), a series of OLTP systems
• w3m, a web browser
• WinLIKE - is compatible with TB browsers

Other

• AIX operating system - its GUI System Management Console, fails over to a TB alternative if X is not up
• Batch file
• Chess Live, an online service for playing chess, has TB commands in common with other services
• Curses (programming library)
• Delphi online service used to be TB
• Focus (computing) contrast keyboard focus with cursor in TUIs
• 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")
• Lima Mudlib, a LPC framework for MudOS
• Mary programming language (a 1970s Norwegian project) - had a TB macro facility
• PSYC a TB "Protocol for SYnchronous Conferencing"
• Serial over LAN - connect to a PC's serial port via a LAN
• SlipKnot (web_browser)#History
• Task (computers) mentions "older text-based computer interfaces"
• Text based
• Text mode
• Text user interface ("TUI")
• The Source (service), like WELL
• WYSIWYG e-mail - styled text in email for CompuServe, added in 1992 by NavCIS