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This was my gateway into Linux! I'm grateful to whoever decided to bundle the BSDgames [0] and Frotz [1] packages, for sparking a lifelong love of text adventure games and interactive fiction. Imagine my surprise as a little kid poking around the bin directory, typing "advent" into the prompt expecting a simple advent calendar application, and instead getting dropped into a whole other world [2]...

[0] https://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/BSD_games

[1] https://davidgriffith.gitlab.io/frotz/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure

Same as you, but first I played IF games under Winfrotz/ZX Spectrum. Later, I ran Linux with advent/battlestar and such under Frotz for Unix (among trek) and I was hooked.

How could I forget `battlestar`! The juxtaposition of the luxurious staterooms and all those corpses strewn around sure made an impression on kid me.

You played text adventures by typing on a DS touch screen keyboard with a stylus?!

I sure did! We got pretty good at text-entry with the stylus when it was the only input method we had to work with. Like how people adapted to thumb-typing on smartphone touch screens.

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