Second Hand Computer

Second Hand Computer is a digital toy focused on letting you play and make text-based video games. It is part fantasy computer/console, part text adventure engine, and all about providing the vibes that using text-based early IBM PCs had.

It contains the following features:

* FUNSCRIPT, a LUA-based language which lets you program text-mode games anyone with Second Hand Computer can play

* ODYSSEY, an intentionally minimalist text-adventure engine which lets you play (and write) adventure games in our own .ODD format

* SWORDS OF FREEPORT, the terminal-based play-once-a-day low-fantasy lite-RPG

* BOOTLEG, a brand new text based game where you take on the role of a bootlegger in prohibition-era America

* Several other classic text-based games ported to Second Hand Computer

* Various small text based games common to 8-bit computers, ported to FUNSCRIPT and provided with full source code

* A pixel-art computer and room, which can be customised and even fully replaced at the user's desire

* ...all presented through a DOS-like operating system front-end called FUNTIME(FT) DOS

As for the system itself, the titular Second Hand Computer renders an 80x25 character display based roughly on IBM Codepage 437 with only minor changes, with the 16 original EGA/VGA base colours.

Second Hand Computer is currently in active development. We've done quit ea bit of testing with a small group, but please consider that this is a project which as yet hasn't been tested on a wide variety of hardware & software configurations as yet.

System Requirements:

SHC should run on most moderately decent systems. For obvious reasons, it uses very little memory.

macOS: macOS 15 Sequoia or newer
Linux: Any Linux distribution with glibc 2.38+