Month: January 2011
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Playing text adventures with mudlet
Mudlet I’ve been playing text based multi-user games on and off for years, or perhaps that’s decades. When I first started playing them, all you had was telnet. Then this program called TinyFugue appeared which is still shipped by Debian. The generic term for these sorts of games are MUDs, or Multi User Dungeons. Anyhow,…
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dh-make and cdbs
If you use dh-make with CDBS then you need to know that CDBS is no longer a package type, but is a rules format. This is where it should of been in the first place and for a few versions of dh-make there was this half-hearted attempt to change it over. Version 0.57 has the…
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A few minor updates
No real terribly exciting updates lately but all important in their own way. ncurses A new version of ncurses got uploaded into sid. It should hopefully fix the backspace versus delete problem some of the FreeBSD people have been having with some of the terminal emulators. Oh, and if you are pining for the good…