Humbug

Humbug is a comic text adventure by Graham Cluley, who later became known as a computer security writer. It is full of jokes and puzzles, and you play it by typing commands.

How to set it up

1. Install DOSBox Staging or another DOS emulator.
2. Unzip the download into a folder of its own.
3. Start DOSBox Staging and type mount c "<folder>\humbug", where <folder> is where you unzipped the download, then c:.
4. The download holds a self-extracting archive. Type mkdir game, then cd game, then ..\HUMBUG.EXE to unpack it.
5. Type HUMBUG to start the game.