Text-based games: ASCII, etc. sorted by release date
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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Rockstar!
DOS19894/5 Wizard Games
Scapeghost
DOS19893.7/5 Level 9 Computing
Star Fleet 2: Krellan Commander
DOS19894.2/5 Interstel Corporation
Star Saga: Two - The Clathran Menace
DOS19893.9/5 Masterplay Publishing Corporation
The Golden Fleece
DOS19894/5
The Usurper
DOS19893.8/5 Sir-tech Software
Turbo Assembler (TASM)
DOSWindows 3.xWindows XP/98/9519894/5 Borland Software Corporation
Turbo Assembler, often referred to as TASM, is an x86 assembler for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. It was part of the Turbo Assembler/Turbo Debugger (TASM/TD) package that Borland released as part of their Turbo Assembler product line. Borland was a software company known for its development tools during the 1980s and 1990s.
Word Perfect 5
DOS19893.9/5 Corel
Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz
DOS19894/5 Infocom
Arj
DOS19904.3/5
ARJ is a file compression utility and file format created by Robert K. Jung. The name "ARJ" stands for "Archived by Robert Jung." It was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a compression tool for MS-DOS and other systems. ARJ offered high compression ratios and various features, such as archive encryption and error recovery.
At the Carnival
DOS1990freeware3/5
Boggle
DOS19903.5/5 HVB Software
Cascade
DOS19904.1/5 PC Solutions
CheckIt 3
DOS19902.8/5
Gumboots Australia
DOS19904/5 Reckon Software
Hockey League Simulator
DOS19903.3/5 Bethesda Softworks
Kingdom of Kroz 2
DOS19903.2/5 Apogee Software
Lost Adventures of Kroz
DOS1990freeware3.3/5 Apogee Software
Mo'Slo
DOS1990protected4.1/5 Dr.David's Super Crispy Software
The previous file hosted here was put online by mistake (it was the deluxe version, not the basic one). Copyright holders kindly allowed Abandonware DOS to link directly to their website where you can buy the deluxe version of Mo'Slo.
Norton Editor 2
DOS19904.2/5 Peter Norton Computing
Return to Kroz
DOS1990freeware3.1/5 Apogee Software
Temple of Kroz
DOS1990freeware3.8/5 Apogee Software
The Final Crusade of Kroz
DOS1990freeware3.7/5 Apogee Software
A Night with Troi
DOS1991NSFW4/5
DOS Navigator v 1.5
DOS1991freeware4.1/5
Magnetic Scrolls Collection
DOS19914.1/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Magnetic Scrolls was one of the finest developer companies dedicated to Interactive Fiction. The Magnetic Scrolls Collection is a trilogy of Magnenic Scrolls adventures remade using the Wonderland engine: Fish!, Corruption, The Guild of Thieves. The new window-based interface made text-adventuring easy even for gamers not used to a text-only interf...
QBASIC
DOS19914.4/5 Microsoft
QBasic, or QuickBASIC, was an interpreted version of the BASIC programming language developed by Microsoft. It was designed to be easy to learn and use, making it accessible to beginners and hobbyist programmers. QBasic was part of Microsoft's QuickBASIC product line, which included both compiled and interpreted versions of the language. QBasi...
Quattro Pro v4
DOS19913.9/5 Borland Software Corporation
Rules of Engagement
DOS19913.6/5 Omnitrend Software
Xtrek
DOS1991freewareNSFW4/5