Open Source MS-DOS Turn Based Strategy Games

VGA Planets Assistant (VPA) is a client program for VGA Planets PBEM game. Requires: Dosbox from https://www.dosbox.com It works with original host (THOST: www.vgaplanets.com) and Portable Host (PHost: www.phost.de, phost-contrib.sf.net, hosted by https://planetscentral.com) and the new web-based NU-Host (https://www.planets.nu) by using additional tool streu's c2nu.pl (https://github.com/stefanreuther/c2nu). Maintained by sfplanets.

Omega is a roguelike game originally written by Laurence Brothers in the late 80s. It was the first roguelike game with a large "countryside", plot development, quotable quotes, and a sense of humor.

Rogue Clone IV is an open-source reproduction of everybody's favorite role-playing game: rogue. There are currently ports to 16-bit DOS and 32-bit Windows.

JustEmpire and TEmpire (Tiny Empire) are two Empire-derivative games based (very!) loosely on Walter Bright's original Empire concept (classicempire.com), using JustBasic (justbasic.com) and Borland Turbo C/C++ (bdn.borland.com/museum). Others possible.

ArdReil is a multiplayer, multiplatform, networked strategy game of galactic conquest and resource management, providing opportunities for diplomacy, betrayal, cunning, and cooperation. Unite the Galaxy - preferably under your own flag.

This little tool reads various GO-formats (starting with SGF-parser) and will write a POV (Persistance of Vision) - file. The file can be rendered using POV, so the resulting image will be a high-res raytraced go-board.

Open Sourced version of American Civil War game for DOS, originally developed by Dagger Interactive Technologies and Greenius, published by Empire Interative in 1995.

H4x0rs is a game where you play the role of a sysadmin. It is turn-based and multi-player. Protect your system from crackers, while keeping it running, and launching attacks of your own.

It is a strategy based board game. It is a very inferior sub set of chess. Currently you can play this game with computer only.

Kalyp - a fantasy based roguelike game in Java, focusing on the artificial intelligence for the non-player characters and game design with a scripting language.

Legend of the Wanderer TCG is a 3D Card based RPG. The game will have a unique battle system and some elements that are not in basic card games. The Battle animation is in real time 3D. You will be able to play online.

MOMpp is an attempt at remaking and improving that most classic of games... Master of Magic. New elements planned to be included: Flexible unit creation, alignments, emigration/immigration, religion...

Mikes Adventure Game is a mature 1980s roguelike RPG game like Nethack, rogue, moria, angband, dungeon crawl, hack and Adom. It's a win32 port with no gameplay changes. Not associated with original author Mike Teixeira(help from him would be appreciated

A chess game, for educational purposes.

Realms of Turmoil is a project dedicated to making a very good web-based game, similar to Utopia, and releasing it on the internet. It is currently not even in a workable stage. I could use any help that anyone out there can provide. Come help it work.

This Project is dedicated to the Development of a new PBeM host based on the Atlantis-Style PBeM hosts.

A text-mode (curses) multiplayer game like Konquest (a turn based strategy; you send ships from planet to planet to conquer them). Has better interface usability (e.g. it already has an auto-send feature and save/load functionality). Made in Israel.

Trek7 the original multiplayer network star trek game from the early-mid 70s. We are hoping to revive this classic (no, its not netrek/mtrek, not even close). hopefully the SF community can help port this to modern day networks.