Tag: frontends

  • A different way to play: front-ends

    A different way to play: front-ends

    This is the first installment in my series “A different way to play” about front-end clients for BBS door games. Silent. Simple. Social. I suspect that’s how many people remember BBS door games. In our memories, we recall quaint multiplayer, turn-based, text games. They lacked sophisticated graphics, music, and sound effects — significant flaws for…

  • Hatari, Lantronix, and CosmosEx: My quixotic quest to play “Thieves Guild”

    Hatari, Lantronix, and CosmosEx: My quixotic quest to play “Thieves Guild”

    Allow me introduce you to the “Thieves Guild Emulator,” a graphical front-end client for the Atari ST BBS game “Thieves Guild.” (Update: I have replaced the original video I posted with a new version that includes the game’s sound effects, as well as some gory combat) It took me a long time to reach the…