NBSDgames
21 new, improved, original text games for Unix, DOS, Plan9
Details
- External ID
- 48477514
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- NBSDgames
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- June 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 13
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6707650273224044
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- text games for unix, dos, plan9
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While the game logic for 21 simple text/arcade games can be vibe-coded, porting and ensuring native compatibility across legacy Unix terminals, raw DOS, and Plan 9 requires niche platform expertise.
What it would actually take: Building this requires writing pure ANSI C or POSIX-compliant C code without heavy modern dependencies, implementing custom terminal handling (raw termios for Unix, BIOS interrupts/conio for DOS, and /dev/cons for Plan 9), and maintaining separate toolchain builds (Watcom C, Plan 9 8c/mk). The non-standard OS targets and raw terminal drawing are the primary hurdles.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #247 of 743 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 222 days after the earliest competitor.
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- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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