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Re:Best command-line-only video games (2019) by dllthomas on Saturday September 17, 2022 @04:57PM (#32881502)
Play By Email seems marginal. It's certainly true that you can do it from the command line (I'd heartily recommend nmh over using sendmail directly), but it's sort of incidental rather than by design. That said, I'd count it.
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Re:Best command-line-only video games (2019) by guessbest on Monday September 19, 2022 @11:14AM (#32899483)
Email to me is a type of network transfer, slower than RESTful, but reliable nonetheless.
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Re:Best command-line-only video games (2019) by dllthomas on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @12:54PM (#32914505)
I agree. What I think makes PBEM marginal as an example of "command-line-only" is that it is designed with email in mind as the interface, and it is only because we have command line access to email that we have command line access to the game. As I noted, though, I still think it counts.
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