I may be the first person to play games on asus router

[DDD]

I was writing a script and wanted to try to see if the router's shell could run a simple game, actually I wanted to add a game to my script as an easter egg, I tried some existing shell games and finally found this Tetris, at first it ran with some bugs due to sleep incompatibility, but after the fix it worked like a charm, maybe not quite, because although the router cpu seems powerful, but while playing this game the cpu usage may exceed 80%.

For anyone who wants to try playing Tetris on their router:

# go to the temporary directory (this game will be deleted after restarting the router)
cd /tmp

# download
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/l11/router-tetris/main/shtris -O ./shtris

# add permissions
chmod +x ./shtris

# run it
sh ./shtris

This script was not written by me, I just modified it to be Asuswrt compatible.

See the repository for more details: https://github.com/l11/router-tetris

 

[DDD]

I'll try pac-man next time

 

[Viktor Jaep]

I was writing a script and wanted to try to see if the router's shell could run a simple game, actually I wanted to add a game to my script as an easter egg, I tried some existing shell games and finally found this Tetris, at first it ran with some bugs due to sleep incompatibility, but after the fix it worked like a charm, maybe not quite, because although the router cpu seems powerful, but while playing this game the cpu usage may exceed 80%.

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For anyone who wants to try playing Tetris on their router:

# go to the temporary directory (this game will be deleted after restarting the router)
cd /tmp

# download
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/l11/router-tetris/main/shtris -O ./shtris

# add permissions
chmod +x ./shtris

# run it
sh ./shtris

This script was not written by me, I just modified it to be Asuswrt compatible.

See the repository for more details: https://github.com/l11/router-tetris

That's amazing... thanks for that!!

 

[Tech9]

@thelonelycoder, AMTM?

 

[Threska49]

Next up...Doom, because it runs on practically everything.

 

[Viktor Jaep]

I hope someone is able to recreate the text-based "Zork" for the Asus line of routers! Game on!

 

[Tech9]

Next up...Doom, because it runs on practically everything.

Yes, bring it on! Must have multiplayer. We are talking about networking gear after all. Asuswrt-Merlin Gaming Edition, @RMerlin?

 

[DDD]

After some "research", I finally figured out why no one out there has tried playing games on the router, as the Tetris difficulty level increases, the cpu load will increase, eventually saturate, and then get the chance to sleep on the couch at night

 

[Tech9]

I'm gonna beat @Viktor Jaep in Doom before it happens. My dedicated game router is ready for action.

 

[ColinTaylor]

I hope someone is able to recreate the text-based "Zork" for the Asus line of routers! Game on!

I knew my life was complete when I got here:

 

[dave14305]

I hope someone is able to recreate the text-based "Zork" for the Asus line of routers! Game on!

# opkg info zork
Package: zork
Version: 1.0-20180131-1
Depends: libc, libssp, librt, libpthread
Status: unknown ok not-installed
Section: games
Architecture: aarch64-3.10
Size: 177255
Filename: zork_1.0-20180131-1_aarch64-3.10.ipk
Description: Zork (also named as Dungeon) is a text adventure game written by
 Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling in 1980.

A few games in Entware…

 

[Ubimo]

But, can it run Crysis?

 

[Clark Griswald]

I knew my life was complete when I got here:

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That screen shot reminds me of the incredible graphics of the golf game I played on my first computer.
Waiting for one of the "Talents" to write an amtm "Router Games" script.

 

[Tech9]

Where do we post game requests?

Star Wars: Dark Forces (1995)

I'm going to buy GT-AX6000 console, if needed.

 

[Viktor Jaep]

I'm going to buy GT-AX6000 console, if needed.

Nice! I hear it comes with a game controller that plugs directly into your WAN2 port!

 

[Tech9]

I need Alt+F4. Newer USB keyboards are not good. I'm working on PS/2 to Ethernet adapter.

 

[DDD]

try to beat me

 

[Tech9]

try to beat me

I like to shoot with laser beams.

 

[Viktor Jaep]

I like to shoot with laser beams.

I'd rather frag those blocks while camping in the covered protection of a tree

 

[Tech9]

while camping

I always take at least one router with me when camping. Sometimes two access points too. May need to set up a network in the woods, who knows.