From: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject: Re: NEW: games/zork
To: "Anthony J. Bentley" <bentley@openbsd.org>
Cc: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:27:29 +0000

On 2025/11/21 20:41, Anthony J. Bentley wrote:
> Stuart Henderson writes:
> > what do you think about a bit of rearrangement to give a framework for
> > the other games too? e.g. putting this in ports/games/infocom/zork{1,2,3}
> > and installing to /usr/local/share/infocom? i'll happily add some of
> > the other games. they have hhgttg, planetfall, deadline, etc.
> > https://github.com/historicalsource?language=&page=2&q=infocom&sort=&tab=repo
> > sitories
> 
> So far only Zork 1/2/3 have been freely licensed. The rest of those
> repositories are sadly of unclear legal provenance.

That's a pity. We could still include them in ports with packages and
distfiles disabled for those though. 

> > might be worth mentioning gargoyle (pkg_add garglk) in the readme,
> > it's a bit prettier than console frotz, and a lot prettier than sfrotz.
> 
> Sure, here's a version with gargoyle mentioned in the README.

Here's a set of hhgttg, zork, deadline, planetfall. What do you think?