All I want for Christmas is a good word search game. I'd prefer a BBS door, or Unix command line option. Not looking for anything fancy, just a plain word search. Not crosswords, not scrabble or boggle. Anyone have any favorites?

Pat
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On 14 Sep 2021 at 07:25p, Pat Jensen pondered and said...

All I want for Christmas is a good word search game. I'd prefer a BBS door, or Unix command line option. Not looking for anything fancy, just
a plain word search. Not crosswords, not scrabble or boggle. Anyone
have any favorites?

Can we share presents? :) That sounds nice..

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Pat Jensen wrote to All <=-

All I want for Christmas is a good word search game. I'd prefer a BBS door, or Unix command line option. Not looking for anything fancy, just
a plain word search. Not crosswords, not scrabble or boggle. Anyone
have any favorites?

I have "Word Search" by Sunrise doors installed here. I believe it's
exactly what you are looking for... other then dos based.

Shawn

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Re: All I want for Christmas..
By: Pat Jensen to All on Tue Sep 14 2021 07:25 pm

All I want for Christmas is a good word search game. I'd prefer a BBS door, or Unix command line opti
Not looking for anything fancy, just a plain word search. Not crosswords, not scrabble or boggle.
Anyone have any favorites?

Pat

Do you think some hangman-like game would scratch your ich?

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Do you think some hangman-like game would scratch your ich?

I've been trying them. Can't get into boggle because of the timer. Just looking for something a little bit more chill, and would love the ability to create my own themed word searches. I did find the nbsdgames pack which adds about 15 new console games.

I started hacking on a paint program in Python to get my arms wrapped around the curses library. My thought is I can take one of the existing word search puzzle generators and do a nice full screen curses overlay for scoring. For just a day, I made some great progress. Think my holiday idea will turn into an obsession.

Pat
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I have "Word Search" by Sunrise doors installed here. I believe it's exactly what you are looking for... other then dos based.

Shawn

Thanks Shawn.

I've played the Sunrise version a bit. I can't really play it on my laptop because it doesn't have a numeric keypad (can't use arrow keys) and there are a bunch of artificial delays that the author put in that make it pretty frustrating.

On another note, I did also try contacting these guys to get a key over the summer and they never responded.

Pat
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Can we share presents? :) That sounds nice..

This has turned into a bit of an obsession now. I've spent at least 2 days looking for curses based word search and came up empty. So I'm going to build one, I'm about half way done with learning the curses implementation in Python, then it's time to work a puzzle generator.

I've got my holiday project figured out.

Pat
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On 18 Sep 2021 at 08:59a, Pat Jensen pondered and said...

This has turned into a bit of an obsession now. I've spent at least 2
days looking for curses based word search and came up empty. So I'm
going to build one, I'm about half way done with learning the curses implementation in Python, then it's time to work a puzzle generator.

Cool, good luck that sounds like a neat project to sink your teeth into.

I've spent today doing some fsx admin stuff and then later in the day working on adding new (80's and 90's) music to the playlist for my LPFM station. The latter is a slow process but rewarding to get done.

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On another note, I did also try contacting these guys to get a key over the summer and they never responded.

He used to be pretty good about answering, but he's not getting any younger.

Shawn


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** On Sunday 19.09.21 - 19:47, Avon wrote to Pat Jensen:

[...] and then later in the day working on adding new (80's
and 90's) music to the playlist for my LPFM station. The
latter is a slow process but rewarding to get done.

Why is it slow? Do you source from CDs? Once the tune is
ripped and meta data added, isn't it just a simple matter to
store it?


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On 19 Sep 2021 at 08:57a, Ogg pondered and said...

Why is it slow? Do you source from CDs? Once the tune is
ripped and meta data added, isn't it just a simple matter to
store it?

To do that bit, yes that's quick. To code each song in the software I use to schedule the music, that takes time.

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