6. Games and diversions
6.1. Motivation
You should know about games diversions on your system, even if you don’t use them too much.
6.2. Simple diversions and command-line fu
Try the folloing commands:
fortune
cowsay dude
fortune | cowsay
ddate
lolcat
pipe anything through lolcat, such as: fortune | lolcat
sl # (what happens when you mistype ls?)
rev
fortune | rev
cmatrix
moo
factor 27000
espeak "Hello Linux, where are the penguins"
aafire -driver curses
A typing game: the original adventure!
adventure
Some math stuff:
factor 12103 # factoring numbers? can we use this to search for Mersenne primes?
factor `echo "2^7-1" | bc` ; factor `echo "2^11-1" | bc` ; factor `echo "2^13-1" | bc`
pi 50
6.3. Packages that offer many games
- gtkboard
sudo apt install gtkboard gtkboard &
- kgames
Keth Packard’s collection of simple games with the MIT Athena widgets from the 1980s.
sudo apt install kgames dpkg -L kgames | grep /usr/games
- bsdgames
The games from old Berkeley UNIX:
sudo apt install bsdgames dpkg -L bsdgames | grep /usr/games
- bsdgames-nonfree
sudo apt install bsdgames-nonfree dpkg -L bsdgames-nonfree | grep /usr/games # you see rogue, so try: /usr/games/rogue
6.4. Games in emacs
- tetris in emacs
In emacs:
M-x tetris- doctor (a version of Eliza) in emacs
In emacs:
M-x doctor
6.5. Character graphics with curses
- roguelike games
sudo apt install games-rogue- nethack
sudo apt install nethack- nethack
sudo apt install angband- nethack
sudo apt install moria- omega
sudo apt install omega-rpg- larn
https://larn.org/ (unfortunately not a FOSS license)
6.6. Graphical games
6.6.1. Retro
- pacman
sudo apt install pacman- Nintendo emulator
sudo apt install zsnes
Then you have to find the ROM images. There might be licensing issues. This should be seen as a curiosity.
6.6.2. Modern graphics
- doomsday
sudo apt install doomsday- quake
sudo apt install quake- wesnoth
sudo apt install wesnoth
- openarena
sudo apt install openarena
- 0ad
sudo apt install 0ad
- supertuxkart
sudo apt install tuxcart
- extremetuxracer
sudo apt install extremetuxracer