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I played the original back in 1991 and 1992. I wish I could get it to work on .

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/2d42c597-e5b1-42ce-a114-42592f691488/i-never-thought-i-d-live-to-see-this-dayRSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 05:00:31 GMTSat, 02 May 2026 23:30:40 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to I never thought I'd live to see this day: on Sat, 02 May 2026 23:53:26 GMT]]>@beetle_b I’d always tun it on Linux. That and some of the variants such as Rogue.

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Yeah, what I liked about in the days was how easy it was to save-scumm (reuse your save file).

Also, the fortunes file was in plain text, so you could read them and learn.

And encountering your own ghost. A very young me was blown away by that.

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