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Looking for an old DOS game...

HerculesHercules
edited October 2012 in Chit chat
Looking for an old DOS game...

Back in 1990 whilst at college, we had some old 286 machines with EGA monitors, they were all hooked up via ethernet via Novell software. One of the games I recall playing during lunchbreaks was an an ASCII game, all the game characters were drawn in ASCII. It was an advanced dungeons and dragons game where you would roam around the dungeons. Does anyone know the name of it?

Snipes was somewhat similar to it (another game I played back in the day):

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Any ideas?

The machine I use to play it on, a real dinosaur PC !! :D

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  • ZagrebZagreb
    edited September 2012
    Sounds like Moria or Angband.
  • HerculesHercules
    edited September 2012
    Thank you Zagreb ! You solved a long mystery for me... Time to fire up DOSBox later and get down to some D&D exploring :D
  • ewgfewgf
    edited September 2012
    If you're in the mood for a DOS game, then I can't recommend highly enough the brilliant System Shock. It's a first person RPG/shooter, that's deeper than most games today, and

    It's (Windows, not DOS) sequel is even better (though some people prefer SS1 to SS2), and SS2 is maybe the best PC game ever, though personally I'd give the nod to Deus Ex.

    System Shock was notorious for being difficult to run, being incompatible with lots of DOS memory setups, but if you download it from:

    http://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=211.0

    then that version is setup to run in DOSBox, so it's no problem at all to get running (it's all done already), and this version of System Shock (called 'SSP' by the bloke who set it up, for System Shock Portable) has lots of improvements over the original, such as a real mouse-look mode, redefinable keys, higher resolutions, etc.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Shock
  • MetalbrainMetalbrain
    edited October 2012
    Zagreb wrote: »
    Sounds like Moria or Angband.

    I'd say Nethack is the most famous of that kind of games, called "roguelikes".
  • chop983chop983
    edited October 2012
    Speaking of which, there was an old ASCII game I used to play about '92 can't remember if it was DOS or on the Amiga, it was kind of a puzzle game.

    \ooo/
    .\oo/
    ..\o/
    ...<-

    all the o's are held up by that arrow moving it lets them all fall through, that's the best I can manage I can't even remember the goal of the game.
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