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3 games you can play in the Linux terminal
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RetroArch works just fine from the command-line.
Lol these are for games the work in the terminal
Or
Does RetroArch now have a TUI‽ Because that would be genuinely cool if it did lmao
Several emulation programs do actually have a terminal renderer. Impossible to tell what's going on unless you're intimately familiar with the game, but it's neat to see.
It uses DRM/KMS to enable OpenGL (and probably Vulkan too) on the console without needing a display server like Xorg or Wayland. Or if that's too blasphemous for you, there is a libcaca driver.