The most popular text-based games
A few genres traditionally linked to the beautiful world of ascii characters still survives: roguelikes (nethack, angband, etc.) and interactive fiction, for example.
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Dungeon Master's Assistant Vol 1
DOS1988protected4/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Borland DBase 5
DOS19944/5 Borland Software Corporation
Turbo Prolog 2.0
DOS1986protected4.1/5 Borland Software Corporation
Alice: The Personal Pascal
DOS19854.3/5
A Mind Forever Voyaging
DOSMac OS19854.1/5 Infocom
Norton Editor 2
DOS19904.2/5 Peter Norton Computing
Borland Paradox 4.5
DOSWindows XP/98/9519934/5 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Turbo C v2
DOS19883.6/5 Borland Software Corporation
Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021
DOS1987freeware3.9/5 Thinking Machine Associates
Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021 is one of the first 4x turn-based strategy games, ASCII based. Anacreon is set in space, as most 4x sci-fi games are, and was published by Thinking Machines Associates and designed by George Moromisato who later re-released the game as freeware.
Microsoft Word
Windows XP/98/95Windows 3.x19833.5/5 Microsoft
Galaxy
DOS19814.1/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.
Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz
DOS19834.3/5 Infocom
China Sea Trader
DOS19893.5/5
Norton Commander 1.0
DOS19863.8/5 Peter Norton Computing
Norton Commander was a file manager and editor application released by Peter Norton Computing for DOS. Norton Commander used a text-based user interface with side-by-side panels and featured copy, delete, editing and preview any kind of file easily: it was an improvement over the command-line only MS-DOS interface. Norton Commander 1.0 was fir...
Leather Goddesses of Phobos
DOS19864.2/5 Infocom
Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM) v1.1
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1996freeware3.9/5
Lawn Mower
DOS19873.8/5
Dungeon Master's Assistant Vol 2
DOS1989protected3.8/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor
DOS19874/5 Infocom
DeskMate
DOS19842.8/5
Deskmate is a software suite developed by Tandy Corporation that provided a graphical user interface (GUI) and a set of applications for personal computers. It was often bundled with Tandy's TRS-80 and Tandy 1000 series of computers in the late 1980s and early 1990s.Deskmate included various applications such as a word processor, spreadsheet, calen...
Borland Reflex 2.0
DOS19863.7/5 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Reflex was a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by Borland International, a software company that was prominent in the 1980s and 1990s. Reflex was released in the mid-1980s as a graphical database software primarily targeted at business and professional users.
Borland Eureka: the Solver
DOS19873.9/5 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Eureka: the Solver is an abandoned text-based application developed by Borland Software Corporation and released in 1987 for DOS. The product is designed to solve complex problems, generate tables and plots, and perform what-if analysis. The user writes an equation, sets options, and instructs the software to solve the problem. The pro...
Borland Turbo Pascal 3.0
DOS19863.8/5 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Turbo C v1
DOS19874.1/5 Borland Software Corporation
A-Maze
DOS19894.2/5 New Era Software
CheckIt 3
DOS19902.8/5
Turbo Pascal 7
DOSWindows 3.xMac OS19924/5 Borland Software Corporation
Turbo Pascal 7 (TP7) is a programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) that was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was developed by Borland as an evolution of their earlier Turbo Pascal versions. Turbo Pascal 7 was released around 1992.Turbo Pascal 7 gained popularity in educational settings and among hobbyist progra...
Borland Turbo Pascal 2.0
DOS19834/5 Borland Software Corporation
NewsMaster
DOS19863.6/5
Word Perfect 5
DOS19893.9/5 Corel