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    From Maurice Kinal@1:261/38 to Nancy Backus on Sat Oct 13 01:02:06 2018
    Hey Nancy! (and Sean too)

    I'd vote for not moving to the Raspberry Pi... Dave and I would
    miss the Scrabble for sure.... :)

    Check out;
    https://a.fsdn.com/con/app/proj/tws-ascii/screenshots/120550.jpg

    It is a console based scrabble game (python based with ascii output) that can be redirected to a remote terminal. Given that there are python ports to arm based systems, I think it would be extremely doable and is probably far more stable than running DOS abandonware in an emulator on any platform including a raspberry pi.

    Life is good,
    Maurice

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  • From Nancy Backus@1:229/452 to Maurice Kinal on Mon Oct 15 21:42:48 2018
    Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 13-Oct-2018 01:02 <=-

    Hey Nancy! (and Sean too)

    Hopefully Sean notices this, too... :)

    I'd vote for not moving to the Raspberry Pi... Dave and I would
    miss the Scrabble for sure.... :)

    Check out; https://a.fsdn.com/con/app/proj/tws-ascii/screenshots/120550.jpg
    It is a console based scrabble game (python based with ascii output)
    that can be redirected to a remote terminal. Given that there are
    python ports to arm based systems, I think it would be extremely doable and is probably far more stable than running DOS abandonware in an emulator on any platform including a raspberry pi.

    Does it allow for adding words to the dictionary...? Have you actually
    had the opportunity to try it out and play someone else...?

    ttyl neb

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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Maurice Kinal on Mon Oct 15 13:54:30 2018
    Maurice Kinal wrote to Nancy Backus <=-

    It is a console based scrabble game (python based with ascii output)
    that can be redirected to a remote terminal. Given that there are
    python ports to arm based systems, I think it would be extremely doable and is probably far more stable than running DOS abandonware in an emulator on any platform including a raspberry pi.

    Fun fact about the original Scrabble door: it was created with Hasbro's blessing, so it was (still is?) the official Scrabble door. Interested in seeing what you have as that could be run as a stdio program on my system.

    Later,
    Sean


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