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Quaddy:
i love those old school text adventures, you remember right? - well if you are under 30 then maybe not - i remember as soon as the teacher in the computer class would go out, we would load up 'mansion' on the old acorns and bbc's and proceed to navigate round the house and steal goodies, like: "to your north you see a pantry door half open, press N to enter" or "to your south you see a small black cat carrying a strange object, press S to visit the cat" lol - or something similar, these text adventures could be really absorbing and i for one would LOVE to see a plugin to allow a selection of these to be loaded into the Rockbox plugins system.

Llorean:
The forum is not the appropriate place for feature requests.

Your best bet is to find an open source interpreter for the text adventures you like (many used interpreted languages) and find out if it's feasible to port. I can't imagine playing a game that requires large amounts of typing on a DAP, but either way requests don't belong here.

GodEater:
There's no plugin for this at the moment - but there are a number of open source implementations of interpreters for Zork and games published in a similar format. If you're interested in this then it might be worth looking into how complicated it would be to port them to rockbox.

Bear in mind that the text entry is going to *painful* to say the least though!

LambdaCalculus:
Hey, I'm 28 but I played plenty of text adventures in my day!  :)

But seriously, GodEater and Llorean are right: text entry on a DAP will be a nightmare. A simpler game would be a far better idea.

Quaddy:

--- Quote from: Llorean on July 18, 2007, 02:07:36 PM ---The forum is not the appropriate place for feature requests.

Your best bet is to find an open source interpreter for the text adventures you like (many used interpreted languages) and find out if it's feasible to port. I can't imagine playing a game that requires large amounts of typing on a DAP, but either way requests don't belong here.

--- End quote ---

Sry, it wasnt a feature request, more like a "anyone know of anything like this for a dap" type post. but i apologize anyway.

i have entered this as an official feature request FYI.

and there is NO 'typing' involved. just scroll up or down or what have you, to select your orientaion, N,E,S,W or L,R,U,D etc etc.

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