User:Chris Chittleborough/Text-based
Articles which relate to "text-based" games, applications, etc
About Games
[edit]- Audio game - contrast to video game and text game
- CVAR, a game setting that can be manipulated via an in-game CLI
- Vulture's, graphical interfaces for TBGs NetHack and Slash'EM
- WASD, contrast to HJKL in older TB games
- Wes Platt
- Powergaming
- Rising Star (Babylon 5) episode inspired a TB ORPG
Types of Game
[edit]- AOL chatroom game (AKA AOL battler) mostly TB
- Forum game
- Interactive fiction (AKA Text adventure game(s), Text adventure(s), Text based adventures, Text based adventure game, Interactive Storytelling Game and variants, Interactive text,
- List of text based games
- List of Text-Based MMORPGs
- List of Turn-Based MMORPGs
- MIRC game - IRC games written in mIRC script; some are TB
- MOO
- Online text-based role-playing game
- Simming (AKA Star Trek Text-Based Role Playing Games; collaborative fan-fiction etc)
- Text game
- Turn-Based MMORPG
Individual Games or Series
[edit]- Age of Chaos, a TB MMORPG
- Armageddon (MUD)
- Blood of Britain, a NRPGN game
- Carnage Blender, a TB MMORPG
- Chibot Ultra Battle, a TB AOL chatroom game
- CoolMUD
- DartMUD
- DragonRealms, a commerical MUD by Simutronics
- Dynasty Warriors, a NRPGN game
- Epic RPG, a TB ORPG
- Falcon's Eye, the graphical NetHack
- Famicom Tantei Club Part II: Ushiro ni Tatsu Shoujo, a 1989 TB mystery game
- Fantasy Empires, a TBOG of some kind
- Federation (game), a 1988 TBOG for Compunet
- Federation II, a MUD-like game
- GemStone IV, a commercial MUD by Simutronics
- Havocs-Realm, a TBOG of some kind
- ID (video game), a 1986 TBG
- Legends of Kallisti, a MUD
- LegendMUD, a MUD
- Lords of Lords, a TB MMORPG
- Mechz, a TB MMORPG
- Modus Operandi RPG, a commercial MUD by Simutronics
- Music Maven, a TB MMORPG about the music industry
- Newage3, a TB MMORPG (WRONG: it's a browser based SF MMORPG with top-down-viewpoint graphics)
- Nordicmafia, a TBOG
- Out of the Park Baseball, a TB baseball sim
- Political game (mentions Senate Seeker, a TB online simulation)
- Radical Dreamers, a 1996 text adventure (or TB RPG) for a Nintendo
- Realms of Kaos, a MMORPG or "graphical MUD" with lots of text and some images
- Realms of Wonder, a MUD (also the name of a "comic book tracking system")
- ScriptersRPG, a TBOG
- Solaris RPG Online, a MMORPG which was/is TB
- Space Federation, a series of MMOGs, one a TB MMORPG
- Spaceminers, SpaceMiners is a tick-based MMOG with "a text and graphic interface using your normal Internet Browser"
- The Five Pillars, a TB MMOG
- The Lost Crown of Queen Anne, a 1987 TBG
- Threshold RPG, a MUD
- TNM (computer game), a TB pro wrestling simulation
- TOS TrekMUSE, a MUSE
- Tycoon Online, a TBOG
- Valhalla (computer game), a 1983 game which used both text and graphics
- War of the Races, a NRPGN game
- Xaos MUD, a MUD
- Yankee Trader, a BBS door game
Types of Application
[edit]- List of e-mail clients#Text-based
- List of FTP clients
- List of FTP servers - 2 lists: graphical and text-based
- List of news clients#Text-based
Applications
[edit]- Citadel (Groupware), a Unix BBS with many front ends, including a "TUI"
- cscope, TB or GUI
- C-Net DS2, a 1986 BBS system for C64s
- Diakonos, a text editor
- ELinks, a TB web browser
- Elm (email client)
- ICQ (an instant-messaging app); article mentions centericq, which is TB
- Lily (CMC) a TB Computer-mediated communication system
- Lynx (web browser)
- KOM, a BBS
- Minicom, a modem control and VT102/ANSI emulator
- Mutt (email client)
- Quaero, a European Internet search engine for multimedia, "not ... a TB SE"
- slrn, a newsreader
- SPIRES, a TB bibliographic database
- SlipKnot (web browser)
- Tin (newsreader)
- USAS (application), a series of OLTP systems
- w3m, a web browser
- WinLIKE - is compatible with TB browsers
Other
[edit]- AIX operating system - its GUI System Management Console, fails over to a TB alternative if X is not up
- Batch file
- Chess Live, an online service for playing chess, has TB commands in common with other services
- Curses (programming library)
- Delphi online service used to be TB
- Focus (computing) contrast keyboard focus with cursor in TUIs
- Free-Net, a (generic name for a) text-based (no PPP) dialup network service)
- FTP ("Basic text-based FTP clients come with many operating system")
- Lima Mudlib, a LPC framework for MudOS
- Mary programming language (a 1970s Norwegian project) - had a TB macro facility
- PSYC a TB "Protocol for SYnchronous Conferencing"
- Serial over LAN - connect to a PC's serial port via a LAN
- SlipKnot (web_browser)#History
- Task (computers) mentions "older text-based computer interfaces"
- Text based
- Text mode
- Text user interface ("TUI")
- The Source (service), like WELL
- WYSIWYG e-mail - styled text in email for CompuServe, added in 1992 by NavCIS