Unix Shell Games

Phantasia is a role playing game which allows players to roll up characters of various types to fight monsters and other players. Progression of characters is based upon gaining experience from fighting monsters (and other players). For more details click on the link for a full Phantasia page.

World is an text adventure written in 1992 by J. D. McDonald. This is one of the best text adventure games I've ever played. The text parser is primative, but the descriptions are vivid and imaginative and the puzzles are complex enough to make them a challenge. It was lost to us around 1995 when we upgraded from a Sun 3/280 to Sun 4/280. Just recently, I managed to hack an Amiga version into functioning under Linux and now it's back. I wasn't able to find any website dedicated to it, so the above link is simply a link to the Amiga source on www.ifarchive.org.

Zork (zork, zork2, and zork3) was one of the first interactive fiction computer games to be made available on microcomputers. Zork is a descendant of Colossal Cave Aventure. Originally written in MDL, Zork was adapted to a specialized virtual machine known as a Z-machine. Zork has a special place in the history of Eskimo North. Normally, the z-machine always used the same save file name but we had a special modified version that created a separate save file for each user allowing Eskimo North users to play this game online in the early 80's.

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