[Aardwolf]

Oh that kind of text!

First I thought it would be about rendering with ascii characters, like text mode quake

http://web.archive.org/web/19990219125446/http://webpages.mr...

Too bad this gem is gone from the internet now, so that's an archive link :(

[osaariki]

For yet another kind of action game in text see Doom, the Roguelike [1], which I've found thoroughly enjoyable.

[1] https://drl.chaosforge.org/

[katastic]

A long time ago I wanted to port Quake 3 to a MUD. Like literally play Longest Yard or another map.

    "You enter a room. xxxSniperKid82xxx is in the room holding a railgun."

$ "Equip rocket launcher."

    "You equip the rocket launcher."

    "xxxSniperKid82xxx approaches you with a buzzsaw glove."

$ "Fire rocket launcher at xxxSniperKid82xxx"

    "You fire the rocket launcher at xxxSniperKid82xxx. It misses. You take splash damage."

[stickydink]

That second link seems to download just fine, shouldn't be hard to get it running again? :)

[Something1234]

Report back with your findings please if you try, please?

[khedoros1]

I downloaded the Shareware game files and used DosBox to extract them (archive.org had them compressed in a DOS version of the game). I found a copy of sdlquake and had to do some minor modifications to get it compiling and assembling on a 64-bit host. Also something about a null pointer dereference in connection with finding the local hostname.

Compiled a copy of SDL with aalib support. Copied it into the game directory, along with the sdlquake binary.

Ran "DISPLAY="" LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. SDL_VIDEODRIVER=aalib ./sdlquake".

That gave me quake in text mode, and would also run in a regular terminal.

[StavrosK]

I tried to run it, but it's looking for a Quake executable called "squake", which I don't have and didn't manage to find.

[shakna]

QuakeOne has squake [0], the tar.gz contains only the executable, so you might end up coming back there looking for some more gear.

[0] http://quakeone.com/q1files/downloads/

[StavrosK]

Hmm yeah, now it's complaining about libm.so.5 missing...

[shakna]

That should be part of libc 5.3, which would be hell to install side-by-side whichever version you currently have. Not a rabbit-hole to go down lightly.

Maybe an old (2011-ish) Linux distro in a VM would be the way to go. If you want the effort. (I obviously don't feel like pursuing it myself).

[Something1234]

Could you rename your quake executable to that?

[khedoros1]

I think that the original squake was written against svgalib. So the ttyquake package contains a libvga that's probably a shim, translating the output to aalib.

Most Quake ports use OpenGL, SDL, etc for graphics, and won't work directly with the ttyquake files. Which is why I described using sdlquake to achieve the same effect, in my other comment.

[StavrosK]

Unfortunately I couldn't figure out how to install the game files for Ubuntu and gave up after ten minutes or so.