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The DS is a roguelike gamers paradise at this point. I'm amazed how many commercial ones that are out there. You've got something for the hardcore, the weeaboos, the kids and the computer nerds. The nethack port is worth the price of a flash cart alone. It's better than the wince/wm port!
I know there's ones I've missed. There's also a ground-up game coded for the GBA and ported to the DS.

Get her an R4 (can be found for around $15) and load it up with stuff from Project Gutenberg. The R4 kernel comes with moonshell preinstalled (it's a media player type thing) which includes a text viewer. Plus, you can get a bunch of great homebrew games and such (like Nethack!).

it exists, it really sucks though
http://frodo.dyn.gno.org/~brettk/NetHackDS

It never gets old does it?

GNO, it doesn't.

What does GNO have to do with it?

Don't forget DB Master for the Apple II. Sold several million copies - a modernized version of it is still used in public works offices around the world, even 20 years later.

The original author still does DB work for this company.

Try here. They've got links to a bunch of software and references to other sites on actual DC dev. Incidentally, for actually burning DC discs in Linux, just read this email that I snagged... it's really quite easy, but you need to pass the right options to cdrecord for things to work properly.

I think Thew Woz's SWEET16 package could ease the manual-moves... 3D0G

Well, what's this.. looks like someone has stumbled across some 7 year old webpages!

One should note that the GNO/ME distribution does not include GS/TCP. Indeed try Marinetti if you want to play around with TCP/IP on your GS.

GNO/ME stands for GNO's Not Orca.. named after the Orca shell in which you could use their compiler tools..

Not really worth checking out, unless it brings back that special nostalgia if you're one of the few who actually used this software 10 years ago.

I don't think I saw a link to www.gno.org so there it is, go grab your GNO! You can find download links if you like..

I can only imagine it's always sucked not to be an apple user. the apple ][ was awesome.

GNO/ME, like Linux, was a Unix work-a-like. As I recall, the system had a limit of 32 concurrent processes, but otherwise emulated a slow Unix machine rather well. We even had dmake for dependency-checking Makefiles.

And BTW, /. is not only for Linux. Don't be a bigot.

Don't say I never gave you anything...

http://www.gno.org/

An IDE card has been available for the Apple II for a few years now... see the Turbo IDE from SHH Systeme. Dated October '94...

Then there's GNO (GNO's Not Orca), a preemptively multitasking Unix-like environment. Was fun to play MODs while IRCing and such :)

This would be great for GNO/ME, which is a UNIX for the Apple IIGS. There's also a TCP/IP implementation for GNO, called GS/TCP, which has httpd, ftp, ftpd, telnet, telnetd, screen, irc, etc.

It's pretty cool to serve your web page off of your Apple IIGS :-)

Speaking of Linux, Jawaid was also involved with the GNO/ME project, which brought Unix-like multitasking to the Apple IIgs (it did require the '816 chip, though, so it wouldn't run on a //e).

The SNES is a 16 bit machine... no chance of running linux, unless they use the ELKS project, or MINIX.

want to get on the internet with an apple ][? GNO! Its a semimodern *NIX for the Apple][ platform. Free as beer.

If you look at all the proprietary operating systems, their community is very different from the BSD/Linux community.

Even the BeOS-community which seem to be rather enthusiastic is still mostly closed source.

As another example, consider the Apple II community...due to the age of the hardware involved (last new design hit the market in '88, last Apple II rolled off the assembly line in '93...or was it '92?), you're dealing with an even smaller niche than with anything that runs on modern hardware. You can almost always count on a flamewar in progress in comp.sys.apple2 regarding 15- or 20-year-old software up on FTP sites...not even just for software from the few companies from that period that are still around in some form or other (someone like Broderbund or Activision), but also from long-dead companies that just disappeared (someone like Epyx or Muse). The few people who are still coding today for the II also seem to be inordinately occupied with how much money they might be able to squeeze out of a project, even though they know it's been pretty much impossible for years now to code for the II as your day job.

FWIW, the last two releases I've done for the Apple II have been GPL'd. One was a digital-audio player for the 8-bit IIs that I open-sourced in 1992. The more recent one was a DHR character generator (no link at this time) that provided an easy way to mix graphics and text under BASIC. A more significant open-source release was GNO, a mulitasking command-line shell for GS/OS. Beyond my two programs and GNO, I can't think of any other open-source releases for the Apple II in recent years (public-domain software excluded because of the way derivative works can be made closed).

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It was on early Macintoshes, and even on the Apple IIGS, imo one of the best personal computers ever made. I'm using a now-free UNIX variant called GNO/ME with Derek Tauberts GS/TCP (unreleased) to serve web pages (currently down, I'm moving to CA).