Kalgoorlie 
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The DOS Arcade
Classic DOS games running in your browser: shooters, adventures, strategy and more, with nothing to install. Members only; ask for an account.
The Kalgoorlie Retro BBS
A Synchronet bulletin board with message areas, the Goldfields Gazette and classic door games.
C:\> telnet bbs.theiguru.au
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Kalgoorlie Retro BBS · Synchronet
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Kalgoorlie Retro BBS · Synchronet
Login:
- Address
bbs.theiguru.au, port 23 (telnet)- Terminal
- SyncTERM or NetRunner for full ANSI colour
- New users
- Sign up on your first call
- Games
- Press X at the main menu
Every login brings the Goldfields Gazette: who has been on, the latest callers, game leaderboards and what is happening in the doors.
Door games
- Legend of the Red DragonSlay the Red Dragon, flirt with Violet and survive the forest.
- TradeWars 2002Two universes: the Kalgoorlie Local game and the TWGS Galaxy Server.
- Esterian ConquestTurn-based galactic empire building, one turn a day.
- Barren Realms EliteBuild your realm and go to war.
- Ember Reach Our ownSettle worlds and build fleets while the star lanes drift. More
Play in your browser
Nothing to install. Saves stay in your browser unless the game says otherwise.
Browser
Legend of the Green Dragon
The web successor to LORD. Fight in the forest, train with the masters and hunt the Green Dragon. A new day starts at midnight Kalgoorlie time.
Browser · Multi-player
Sengoku: Road to Unification
Strategy in sixteenth-century Japan. Govern provinces, raise armies and unite all 38 provinces, alone or with up to eight players online.
Browser · Multi-player
The Broken Seal
Our strategy game of officers, provinces and alliances. Win officers to your side, supply your armies and unite the realm. Play alone or online with friends.
Home network only
RomM Game Library
The retro ROM library, with box art and in-browser play. This link works from inside the house, not from the internet.
For your computer
Our own programs for Windows and Linux. Free to download, with the source.
Windows · Linux
The Broken Seal
The emperor has vanished: govern your provinces, win officers to your side, supply your armies and unite the realm. Saves move freely between desktop and browser.
Windows · Linux
Sengoku: Road to Unification
Lead one of 28 clans, make alliances and fight hex battles to unite the thirty-eight provinces of Japan.
Windows · Linux
Sticky Notes
Coloured desktop notes saved on your own computer, with optional sync between the computers in your home.
For sysops
Door games and servers for your own BBS, with guides for Synchronet, Mystic and others.
DOS · Linux · Windows
LORD FP
A complete Legend of the Red Dragon, ported from the Synchronet version to Free Pascal. Drop-in for 4.06, with the source and In-Game Module support.
Windows server
LORD Server
Host Legend of the Red Dragon the way TWGS hosts TradeWars. Players connect by telnet, or your BBS links in by rlogin. Several games on one server.
DOS · Linux · Windows
Ember Reach
A space strategy door game: houses, worlds and fleets across a star cluster whose lanes open and close. Computer houses for small boards. GNU GPL.
Wiki
Documentation
Everything for LORD Server, LORD FP and Ember Reach in one place, with search: installing, settings, linking BBSes, IGMs, LADY scripts and troubleshooting.
Latest news
All news →Sengoku 1.1.0: multi-player games, and a desktop edition
Sengoku: Road to Unification can now be played online with other people. Open https://retro.theiguru.au/sengoku/ and choose Multi-Player game on the title screen. Make a player name and password, start a game and give your friends its invite code, or join a game with a code someone gave you. Up to eight players each lead a clan; the computer leads the rest. Sengoku players are separate from The Broken Seal's, so make a new name.
The Broken Seal 0.6.0: play online with friends
The Broken Seal now runs in your web browser, and you can play it online with friends. Open https://retro.theiguru.au/brokenseal/play/ and choose 7, Multi-Player game, on the title screen. Make a player name and password, start a game and give your friends its invite code, or join a game with a code someone gave you. Each of you leads a house; the computer leads the rest.
Sengoku: a new strategy game you can play in your browser
Sengoku: Road to Unification is a strategy game set in sixteenth-century Japan, written here and free to play on this site. Choose one of 28 clans in the 1560 or 1582 scenario. Then govern your provinces, raise and train soldiers, make alliances and send ninja against your rivals. Invade a neighbouring province and you fight the battle yourself on a hex field. Hold all thirty-eight provinces to win.
About
Kalgoorlie Retro Gaming is for anyone in the Goldfields and beyond with an interest in retro gaming and computing.
We run a bulletin board system with classic door games, host DOS games and Legend of the Green Dragon online, write our own games and BBS software, and share an interest in 8-bit and 16-bit machines.
Get in touch
For questions, game suggestions or meetups, email slaterm@theiguru.au, or leave a message for the sysop on the BBS.