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On the Web
- w3browse - A text-based web-browser and e-mail client. It has been designed to be mostly platform independent and is able to run on a wide variety of systems including UNIX/Linux and MS-Windows.
- GameFAQs - Peasant's Quest FAQs and Guides - A collection of several text-only walkthroughs by various authors, a point guide, and a screen capture of the map.
- Links List Info Page - Mailing list for Links, a text based web browser.
- w3m Homepage - The official homepage of w3m, a text-based browser and pager from Japan.
- Charlotte 2.1.0 - Text-based browser for VM/CMS. [gopher site]
- Links@Sourceforge.net - Links is a text-based browser with support for HTML tables and frames. For Unix, OS/2, BeOS, MacOSX, Win32 (Beta).
- BETSY: A Bayesian Essay Test Scoring System - A windows-based program that classifies text based on trained material. Designed for automated essay scoring, BETSY can be applied to any text classification task. [GPL]
- John Ingold: Text Based Games - Author's site includes downloads and blurbs about his works.
- FreeTextGames.com - Offers four text-based multiplayer games based around kingdoms and medieval lands. Includes rankings, chat, and forums.
- Peasant's Quest - Flash-based adventure game in which the hero, Rather Dashing, seeks revenge in 16 bit CGI color against the dragon, Trogdor, who burninated his village.
Wikipedia Articles
- List of text based computer games - While many of the earliest computer games (Adventure, Zork) relied on language parsing due to the command line-driven, teletype-terminal mainframe environments in which they were developed, the phrase "text based" is taken to refer not to the user input (though generally keyboard-based) but rather to exclusive use of the fixed-width character display mode, an important distinction to maintain in light of curses games such as Rogue and their successors, which employed the characters in the ...
- Text-based (computing) - Usually used in reference to a computer application, especially a computer game, a text-based application is one whose primary input and output are based on text rather than graphics. This does not mean that text-based applications do not have graphics, just that the graphics are secondary to the text.
- Online text-based role-playing game - An online text-based role playing game (OTBRPG) is a role-playing game played online using a solely text-based interface such as TELNET, an internet forum, or in a chat. Online text-based role playing games predate graphical online games by several years, and can be attributed to the first ...
- Text sim - Text Sim (which stands for text simulation) refers to a type of computer or video game that focuses on using a text based element to simulate some aspect of the real world. Text sims typically focus on creating as detailed a simulation of their object as possible, and therefore, other traditional game elements ...
- E-text - An e-text (from "electronic text"; sometimes written as etext) is, generally, any text-based information that is available in a digitally encoded human-readable format and read by electronic means, but more specifically it refers to files in the ASCII character encoding.