Play Beyond the Titanic on GNU/Linux
The story
One game I played in the past was Beyond the
Titanic. It was a shareware game for MS-DOS, in the genre of text adventure
(now known as interactive
fiction). In 2009 its
source code was released under the GPL (reference 2). An enterprising
individual (not this author) modified it and made it possible to build with
the Free Pascal Compiler (probably known as
fpc in your distro packages). The game has an interesting quirk in that it
really, really depends on having a terminal with size 80x24 and not anything
else. And of course, my Fedora COPR was having trouble building the package,
but I promise you the rpm spec works on Fedora 28 (reference 4) and the dpkg
spec works on Devuan 2.0 beowulf/ceres. Although you could of course just run
the BEYOND.COM version in Dosbox. I did observe the savegame files are not
compatible between builds. Loading the fpc-version savegames into the DOS
version of the game caused some funny and tragic endings where the monster
killed me while I was standing on the deck of the Titanic. Happy typing!
Credits
The icon I used for my project is linkware, so by linking to the author's requested page at https://malagatravelguide.net/, I can use the icon.
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