ASCII PacMan (Pac-Man) for Linux and FreeBSD /
Play online ASCII Pacman
Since just few days ago it was the birthday of Pac-Man game (The
abolute classic game among '80s arcardes).
I decided to try to look if there is an ASCII Pacman available
somewhere.
Luckily there are number of ASCII versions of the classic arcade
PacMan for both Linux and FreeBSD, I thought, it doesn't worth the
time to check if ASCII Pacman is also available for Windows
OS.
For all the ASCII game fans out there I've installed ASCII PacMan
FreeBSD version on the
Play Cool FreeBSD ASCII games
free page From there you can play a number of cool ascii art
games online via telnet, the reasons I took the time to add the
ASCII Pacman to the list of possible games to play is that it's a
shame that the list misses one of the most notable games if not the
most notable ever made.
For Linux I've found three version of ASCII Pacman:
1. The best looking one is probably ASCII Pacman Linux
clone game available on sourceforge.net
You can
download ASCII
Pac-Man 0.9.1 from here
I've included 2 files with instructions on installation and usage
of the game. I saw that as a completely necessery since, the game
controls of the elsely nice looking game are hard to get. To play
the game you will need to use the game controls:
z,x - to move right and left and
m,k for up and down
.
2. A bit more ugly and less interactive is another version of
ASCII PacMan called:
Pac-Man
for Console or simply Console Pacman
This two compiled without any troubles on my
Debian GNU/Linux
squeeze/sid Linux .
Unfortunately the up-mentioned ascii version of pacman won't work
on FreeBSD
3. The ASCII Pacman that is running and compatible with FreeBSD
is called Pacman ASCII and
herein is it's home page
PacMan ascii is a way less sophisticated, so don't expect too much
of it. Originally Pacman ASCII was a project by some French guy in
with the main task to learn C++.
Anyways he did a good job, since his little ascii pacman game is
compatible with FreeBSD as well.
You can
download ASCII
Pacman for FreeBSD here
I did some minor modifications to few of the ASCII Pacman .cpp
files in order to change the default help and game language from
French to English, since French would be cryptic to most of the
non-french users.