Bus Pirate v3.x series had a hidden easter egg text based adventure game contributed by Sjaak. It was eventually taken out due to size limitations.
Curious if anyone would like to see something similar in the new Bus Pirate. I did a cursory look while on the tram and it seems there are a couple ports of classic games such as Mystery Mansion.
Oh man, perfect old guy memories! I would definitely enjoy and play it 
I never knew that about the 3.x version. I missed the good stuff, haha
Yeah but will you play it with one button or via serial and keyboard?
There is a game tetris-like for my TS100 soldering iron that when you loose it rises temperature 10°C and you have to keep it via the tip to play on small oled. Ofc some russian wrote it
That’s really funny!
Text adventures are played via the console, they usually have no graphics, just descriptions. Usually you find yourself in a dark room, and type north/south/east/west to explore. You find various inventory, battle things, and solve puzzles.
When I was a kid I liked Food Fight, which was actually a BBS door game.
My first one was Pyramid on TRS-80 CoCo. Loaded from cassette - good times 
It’s probably too complex for a serial terminal on the BP but the old Artillery game would be amazing Artillery | ClassicReload.com This is about as close as I can find GitHub - whentze/loltanks: Curses-based python artillery game
I did also look for some simple ASCII ANSI art games, but it seems like everything written in C is built on NCURSES. A simple space invaders for example would be great.
@mbrugman I loaded lemonade stand one time from a cassette to a hand me down apple II+. It involved cutting audio cables and splicing in meters of speaker wire to string from the living room stereo into the computer room. As I recall my parents were very unhappy about their preteen doing that, so it only happened once but it was glorious!
Haha, love those epic stories. That’s how we ended up being who we are, right?
My general hunch is that persistence leads to talent more than most else, situations being roughly equal. In that contex ignoring constant admonitions that I’d burn the house down is how I got to here 
Ahh. Those text games days. Anyone else play Dungeon and Zork on VAX or Eclipse computers? Am I the oldest here? BTW, I still occasionally play empire ( currently on Eric S. Raymond / vms-empire · GitLab). Better than solitaire …
Is there any way to be able to “load” binary programs dynamically (so that memory isn’t an issue)? Something similar to the Flipper Zero? So a program doesn’t take up room if it’s not used?
Rp2350 based bus pirates (6+) should be able to dynamically load multiple firmware, though there are still questions if that part of the silicon actually works.
Cool. So Space invaders might be in the future.
This Old Geezer remembers using disk overlays on minicomputers to reload code.
Not quite; I played them on TRS 80 and Commodore. I didn’t have access to a computer until I saved my money from delivering papers in the early morning.
I was thinking Oregon trail would be most appropriate, but in a joking way…
“you have died from political ads”
Very appropriate for 2025
“An eagle stole your baby”
@henrygab is that actually a saying in the game…I don’t remember that one, lol.
