The problem isn't getting it to run, that's easy, it's written in very
portable ansi c. The problem is with the cursor tracking, and the way
cursor movement is tracked in windows screen readers.
In dos, I could tell my screen reader to use the @ symbol as the cursor,
then I could check left/right/up/down just with the cursor keys to see
what was around, and even explore the path I'd taken to get there if I
so chose. That's because dos screen readers used line/column
navigation. Windows screen readers don't do that, even in a dos prompt,
they always go back to the start of the line when you move up/down (why
that is still escapes me, but that's how it works), so there's no easy
way to know where your character is without doing a whole lot of space
counting, or just skipping the finer aspects of knowing *exactly* what's
around where you are, and how far it is. In dos, that was trivially
easy, in windows/linux, that's much more problematic.
I also played many of the nethack clones, umoria, rogue, and others, and
they all worked the same way. Fairly usable under dos, an exercise in
frustration on windows/linux.
Now, empire, that one is a different story, because empire uses a real
cursor, so it always moves you to the exact spot your current piece is
located, which makes moving around and looking at things much simpler,
though it's still not as easy as dos was, since as mentioned, moving
up/down puts you back at the start of the line, which doesn't make a big
difference in the beginning, because there's only a couple characters on
the line, but as the game progresses, it gets increasingly difficult to
track the area around your piece.
On 1/10/2023 6:28 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
I wonder, two things might work together.
First, make sure graphics is disabled so the whole game plays in ascii.
Second, run nethack from the dos command in windows.
Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
.
On Tue, 10 Jan 2023, Heather Seaman wrote:
Could an emulator like DosBox work? You'd have to check whether the emulator is
accessible, but if so maybe you could play that blast from the past. On Jan 10, 2023
5:45 PM, Travis Siegel <[email protected]> wrote:
I never solved it, but I too spent entirely too much time playing that
one. Haven't managed to get it working sufficiently under windows, in
dos it worked just fine though.
Any suggestions?
On 1/10/2023 5:03 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Have you ever played nethack? I've never won that game myself. Many
years spent playing it though.
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