🐹 I built an MMO RPG where live Gopherspace itself is the game world.

You can:

🗺️ explore real Gopher servers
🔍 discover files → get loot 💎
💬 leave comments on files, like on my RFC (pic)
⚔️ attack players and steal their loot

▶️ Play instantly (web):
https://gopher.someodd.zip/1/gateway/games/grpg/look/

▶️ Native Gopher link:
gopher://gopher.someodd.zip/1/gateway/games/grpg/look/

📄 The game is a README file.
The README *is* the executable.
https://github.com/someodd/grpg

#gopher #retrocomputing #haskell

In #gopher news, did you see @someodd 's toot summoning people to their MMO that is just the entire gopher plus items.

https://fosstodon.org/@someodd/115916834079778095

connecting to lambda is like this:
telnet lambda.moo.mud.org 8888
co guest
@join screwtape

(but I am not logged in yet so you will arrive at my undergound cave I am sleeping in if you do it too early).

@kentpitman @ramin_hal9001

In #gopher news, did you see @someodd 's toot summoning people to their MMO that is just the entire gopher plus items.

https://fosstodon.org/@someodd/115916834079778095

connecting to lambda is like this:
telnet lambda.moo.mud.org 8888
co guest
@join screwtape

(but I am not logged in yet so you will arrive at my undergound cave I am sleeping in if you do it too early).

@kentpitman @ramin_hal9001

🐹 I built an MMO RPG where live Gopherspace itself is the game world.

You can:

🗺️ explore real Gopher servers
🔍 discover files → get loot 💎
💬 leave comments on files, like on my RFC (pic)
⚔️ attack players and steal their loot

▶️ Play instantly (web):
https://gopher.someodd.zip/1/gateway/games/grpg/look/

▶️ Native Gopher link:
gopher://gopher.someodd.zip/1/gateway/games/grpg/look/

📄 The game is a README file.
The README *is* the executable.
https://github.com/someodd/grpg

#gopher #retrocomputing #haskell

Asking for help from the #retrocomputing community: anyone with real hardware wants to share pictures of their #Gopher clients showing this page ?

gopher://lacra.ia.br/0/defogo/viajar-no-tempo

#lacraia is a text oriented writing site for people in Brazil powered by #WriteFreely and as such also readable via Gopher. I made a post where I want to share the page above shown on various old platforms.

So if you have such hardware please point your client to the link above and reply here with a picture. I would be very grateful and so happy to link to them in further edits to the page.

Note the page is in Portuguese so it uses 8859-1 encoding to show Latin accents — which may or may not work on your system and it’s ok.

PS: Don’t be afraid of the .ia.br in the domain name. It is an intentional 🇧🇷 joke about texts being written by pesky humans.

Link to web page of the same post :
https://lacra.ia.br/defogo/viajar-no-tempo

cc: @muito_pelo

#BoostsWelcome

Modern web needs like 100MB just to say "Hello World". I went the other way.

Introducing GASM: A Gopher server in pure i386 Assembly.

💾 Binary: 1.2KB (Striped)
🧠 RAM: 24KB (Verified with pmap)
🚫 Dependencies: 0 (No libc, pure syscalls)
🦕 Min Spec: Intel 386DX (1985)

Probably runs on the shittiest hardware you can find, or on your Ryzen 9.

https://github.com/someodd/gasm

#assembly #gopher #lowlevel #linux #retrocomputing #foss

Modern web needs like 100MB just to say "Hello World". I went the other way.

Introducing GASM: A Gopher server in pure i386 Assembly.

💾 Binary: 1.2KB (Striped)
🧠 RAM: 24KB (Verified with pmap)
🚫 Dependencies: 0 (No libc, pure syscalls)
🦕 Min Spec: Intel 386DX (1985)

Probably runs on the shittiest hardware you can find, or on your Ryzen 9.

https://github.com/someodd/gasm

#assembly #gopher #lowlevel #linux #retrocomputing #foss

Asking for help from the #retrocomputing community: anyone with real hardware wants to share pictures of their #Gopher clients showing this page ?

gopher://lacra.ia.br/0/defogo/viajar-no-tempo

#lacraia is a text oriented writing site for people in Brazil powered by #WriteFreely and as such also readable via Gopher. I made a post where I want to share the page above shown on various old platforms.

So if you have such hardware please point your client to the link above and reply here with a picture. I would be very grateful and so happy to link to them in further edits to the page.

Note the page is in Portuguese so it uses 8859-1 encoding to show Latin accents — which may or may not work on your system and it’s ok.

PS: Don’t be afraid of the .ia.br in the domain name. It is an intentional 🇧🇷 joke about texts being written by pesky humans.

Link to web page of the same post :
https://lacra.ia.br/defogo/viajar-no-tempo

cc: @muito_pelo

#BoostsWelcome

I wrote a #gopher plugin for #dillo in POSIX shell script. Since it uses curl, you can also use it to access servers under TLS-encrypted connection (gophers://).

The only requirements (other than dillo and /bin/sh) are curl and awk.

https://codeberg.org/seninha/gopher.filter.dpi

I wrote a #gopher plugin for #dillo in POSIX shell script. Since it uses curl, you can also use it to access servers under TLS-encrypted connection (gophers://).

The only requirements (other than dillo and /bin/sh) are curl and awk.

https://codeberg.org/seninha/gopher.filter.dpi

@Edent As already mentioned, you can use #Lagrange as a browser for #Gopher on Android. The latest versions of this program are here:

https://codeberg.org/skyjake/lagrange/releases

Is there a way to view #Gopher on Android using #OpenSource?

The only client I can fond on F-Droid was last updated 7 years ago 🫠

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@interlisp/115711583068137949

Drop what you're doing and listen to @masinter Larry Masinter talk about computing history and lore. He tells first hand stories on the early web, Gopher, Hypertext Coffee Pot Control Protocol, mailto:, and a whole lot more including Interlisp.

https://netstack.fm/#episode-17

@Jayhoffmann may be interested.

#retrocomputing #interlisp #web #gopher #ietf

What's your favourite client?
Your favourite server to run?
#smolweb #smolnet #SmallWeb #smallnet #geminiprotocol #gemini #GopherProtocol #gopher