Bug#929619: RFP: dmagnetic -- A Magnetic Scrolls Interpreter

[Thomas Dettbarn <dettus@dettus.net>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist


* Package name : dmagnetic
  Version : 0.13
  Upstream Author : Thomas Dettbarn <dettus@dettus.net>
* URL : http://www.dettus.net/dMagnetic
* License : BSD
  Programming Lang: C
  Description : A Magnetic Scrolls Interpreter


"You wake up on a sunny August morning with birds singing, and the air
fresh and clear. However, your joints are stiff and you have not woken
up in your bedroom as you would have expected. Trying to recall what
happened the night before, you manage to piece together a few brief
glimpses to give the following account:"


This is the beginning of "The Pawn", a classic text adventure from
Magnetic Scrolls. Since I loved those games when I grew up, I created an
interpreter called "dMagnetic", to play it on modern hardware. It can
also be used to play "The Guild of Thieves", "Jinxter", "Fish!", "Myth",
"Corruption" and "Wonderland". The graphics are being rendered in
glorious ANSI art, so that you play them on the text console, as well as
an xterm window. You can have a look at the beautiful screenshots on my
projects website, http://www.dettus.net/dMagnetic.


Anyways, since I would also love to see more people playing those games,
I took the liberty of creating the inkling of a package for Debian. You
can find it at http://www.github.com/dettus/ports_and_packages/.
However, I see myself more as a "developer" rather than a "maintainer",
and would thus like to give it into more experienced hands. If anybody
could take over, it would be great. (Technically, that is an RFA, I
know)


My goal is to have my project in your package repository, which would be
amazing.

Thomas Dettbarn