Gotcha, but don't know how to help solve the problem, xnfortunately. On Jan 10, 2023 8:59 PM, Travis Siegel <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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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