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What is The Minstrel's Song?
In a nutshell, it's a computer adaptation of The Minstrel's Song, a tabletop role playing game, and is meant to have a rich and interesting world that supports both building many different kinds of character, and both quests and nonlinear play. It's in the old "roguelike" tradition of computer games, which now means that it might have something of a retro charm.
Top 10 things to do in The Minstrel's Song:
Pet a dolphin.
Pray and worship.
Ride a dragon.
Match wits with a clockwork door.
Climb a tree.
Answer a riddle.
Build your own mechanical devices.
Keep an exotic pet.
Choose your own quest.
Explore a world of wonder.
The Minstrel's Song is now available as a roguelike computer game for Windows (requires Cygwin to be installed with all available packages; Cygwin is free to download and install, but is somewhat technical to deal with), Macintosh and Linux/Unix.
| Version | Macintosh | RedHat RPM | Linux/Unix tarball | Windows (requires Cygwin to be installed with all available packages) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0, development | Download 2.0 for Unix | Download 2.0 for Windows | ||
| 1.4, stable | Download tar.bz2, tar.gz 1.3 for Unix, including Mac, Linux, and Cygwin for Windows | |||
| 1.3, stable | Download 1.3 for Linux | Download tar.bz2, tar.gz 1.3 for Unix | Download 1.3 for Windows | |
| 1.2, development | Download 1.2 for Linux | Download 1.2 for Unix | ||
| 1.1, development | Download 1.1 for Linux | Download 1.1 for Unix | ||
| 1.0b, development | Download 1.0b for Macintosh | Download 1.0b for Unix |
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