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jdd's List o' Links

A curated list of web sites of the old-school: mostly non-commercial and all hand-made, survivals of the Web As It Once Was. And sites that preserve the spirit of it.

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6 sites tagged with games. [Show all sites]

Bolo Home Page
Recently restored to the web by vga256 after a 15 year hiatus, this site provides a comprehensive resource for Bolo, the classic 16 player graphical networked multiplayer Mac tank battle game. After you've finished exploring that, you may want to check out the rest of www.dialup.cafe.
date added: 2023-06-21
tags: games mac

Harper's Tale Home Page
The home page for a text-based online role playing game ("MOO"), simulating Anne McCaffrey's Pern from her Dragonriders of Pern books. Online since the 90s, the game server is still accessible via telnet.
date added: 2023-06-10
tags: games oldserver scifi

City Creator
Build cities out of modular blocks in your browser! A joint project by Denise Wilton and Cal Henderson from the early oughts.
City Creator gif
date added: 2023-03-18
tags: art games

Simon Tatham's Home Page
Home page of Simon Tatham, a software engineer and free-software author in Cambridge, UK. Best known (to me, anyway) as the author of PuTTY, Simon Tatham has also written numerous other utilities, games, fonts, algorithms and essays, many of which are linked here.
date added: 2022-09-30
tags: unix software homepages programming games

Colossal Cave Adventure Page
All about the OG text adventure game. History, source code, and everything you ever wanted to know about the magic word XYZZY.
date added: 2022-08-23
tags: literature art software games

The Interactive Fiction Archive
"Since 1992, the Archive has collected thousands of text adventures, text adventure development tools, articles, essays, hint files, walkthroughs, jokes, and sly references to Greek politics."
date added: 2022-05-06
tags: writing art literature software games