Yikes. Where can I get empire? that's a game I haven't heard of
before. Is it for dos or windows console?
At 02:27 AM 11/10/2016, you wrote:
Wow, I've been playing nethack for years and years, and didn't know
about the underscore key. Heh. I've never won a game either, but I
had much better luck playing nethack on dos than any other operating
system, because of the way cursor tracking and movement is done. I
can still play it on linux/bsd/osx, but it's much more of a pain,
since (as far as I know) it's not possible to move up/down in those
screen readers and stay at the same columnof the screen. Empire is
another game similar to nethack in it's movement, that uses symbols
to show various game pieces and terrain features, and although I
have managed to win that one here and there, it's made harder by the
need to determine capital vs. lower case characters, which in itself
isn't difficult, but after a while, you assume you know the screen
layout, and then the computer sneaks in under your nose, because you
didn't check that troop transport, and later discover it belonged to
the computer instead of to you. :)
I've actually considered making an audio game out of empire, it
might be difficult to manage, but I think if it were done, it would
make tracking enemy pieces much easier.
On 11/4/2016 7:34 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
rogue; hack, and nethack are a family of top view video games
written for computers during the 1980's and 1990's and updated
since then. In nethack, the underscore key command is useful since
on any level where you have identified a location like an altar
stairs or fountain you can use the underscore or underline key
command to return to those locations by keying in the symbol to
move to once the underscore key is hit. If monsters are blocking
you, you'll have to fight those then repeat the underscore command
from your new position to get to the original desired
location. I've been playing nethack since the 1990's and haven't
won any of those games yet so it is not a trivial game. What
usually kills me off is mass attacks anymore. I can usually get to
experience level 7 before that happens these days though and the
experience level is improving at least. Experience levels in
nethack run from 0 to 30. Level 1 requires 16 monsters to be
killed and each level after that doubles the amount of monsters to
be killed. I found nethack accessible on dos computers and on
unix/linux boxes playing within terminals since I learned how to
interpret the symbols andI have the ascii symbols enabled when I
play since the tiles don't do a thing for the screen readers I
use. Since I retired, I abandoned windows since I found I couldn't
do a bare metal install of it and I found it to be too unstable for
my uses when I was working.
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