Are their any Roguelikes for BBSes?
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[deleted] · 2017-11-02 22:42

I know there are somewhat similar games to the Roguelike Genre like
Lore and Arrowbridge 2, but are there any Roguelike games for BBS
platform?

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temotodochi · 2017-11-03 07:12

Mines of gorr, even if it's from first person perspective.

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[deleted] · 2017-11-03 07:20

what about non first person

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[deleted] · 2017-11-03 07:29

Thanks for this, its a bit akward but i'm tryign it for the first time
on doorparty. not too bad. would love to play a roguelike tho,

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RazorKitten · 2017-11-04 18:35

On the old Amiga BBS's we'd just link in to a copy of Nethack.

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[deleted] · 2017-11-04 18:58

The bbs still up?

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RazorKitten · 2017-11-06 01:58

Sadly earlier this year the SCSI drive in the a2000 failed, we're
still working on how best to bring it back up.  Though while we did
have nethack at one point I believe we replaced it with a CircleMUD at
one point.

But it is possible, at least with C-Net Amiga BBS.  (Basically would
allow any local execution or telnet based connections to locally
running software.)

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NuSkooler · 2017-11-07 21:49

See the list of games available via the [Exodus Door
Server](https://oddnetwork.org/exodus/games.md) which includes e.g.
Ancient Domains of Mystery.

You can play on [Xibalba](https://xibalba.l33t.codes/) or on any board
[from this list](https://oddnetwork.org/exodus/members.md) exposing
the game you want.

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xenomachina · 2017-11-08 03:33

OP's question seemed funny to me because my first exposure to
roguelikes was Nethack on a BBS. Later I got that Amiga port of Rogue
that used graphics instead of ASCII -- I might've gotten that from a
BBS too, come to think of it.

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ThrakaAndy · 2017-11-13 18:18

I first played Moria on the Amiga :)

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PhantomNomad · 2017-11-23 22:05

I run a Linux based BBS and have nethack running as a door in my mbse
bbs.  Unfortunately I've had a few issues with the board so I'm not
advertising it for now.