User:Chris Chittleborough/Text-based

Articles which relate to "text-based" games, applications, etc

About Games

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * List of e-mail clients
 * List of FTP clients
 * List of FTP servers - 2 lists: graphical and text-based
 * List of news clients

Applications

 * 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

 * 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)
 * 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