retro gaming

https://osgameclones.com/ has an extensive list of opensource game clones. These are not all available on FreeBSD ports. Most of the games from https://www.maketecheasier.com/best-open-source-clones-of-great-old-games/ are in ports. A few screenshots of clones and similar games running on...

Discussion and screenshots about text gaming on FreeBSD. This is for games on the command-line or terminal interface. Many games are ascii and/or curses. Signify if the game uses an interpreter or emulator. Topic includes utilities or ASCII animations that aren't games, but are under the games...

When was the last time you played a computer game? I really like one of Benjamin Franklin quotes – “We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.” – he lived in times where computer games did not existed yet but the quote remains current. I do not play games a...

I don't have time to maintain emulators/fs-uae So it's time for me to release it to someone else or abandon it.

I was having a hard time getting emulators/fs-uae to build on 11.2. But I managed to fix the port in this respect. I then noticed it was quite out of date and started porting the latest version (which is actually a year old now). I also had to update emulators/fs-uae-launcher to match the FS-UAE...

This is way off topic, but in keeping with my fetish for new OS stuff, I managed to find an allegedly open sourced, former Nintendo company research OS project called "ES". Link: http://code.google.com/p/es-operating-system/ Does anyone have additional info on this?

So when migrating to FreeBSD, one of the things I wanted to do that I could not in Linux was run PC-9821 games. The emulator for the UNIX and UNIX-like OSes is a port of Neko Project II called xnp2. Its really easy to get it running, but since its not in ports, I thought I'd do a little guide on...

Ok, this is very not-Unix related, but maybe someone here remembers an old arcade game I was used to play when I was young: there was a car seat and three white Formula One cars made with a light projector on a rolling tape that was simulating the track. I remember the car having two speeds...