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From: d88-bli@nada.kth.se (Bo Lindbergh)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Any word on NetHack 3.0 for Mac?
Message-ID: <1448@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 21 Aug 89 22:23:34 GMT
References: <1989Aug18.210038.5272@fxgrp.fx.com> <1537@ndmath.UUCP>
Reply-To: d88-bli@nada.kth.se (Bo Lindbergh)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <1537@ndmath.UUCP> milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson) writes:
>From article <1989Aug18.210038.5272@fxgrp.fx.com>, by wiedmann@plover.fx.com (Christian Wiedmann):
>>>slow.  My main gripe with NetHack on the Mac is the speed of output.  There
>>>is no reason why a 9600 baud terminal should output faster than the screen.
>
>It's not terriblly difficult to get 9600 baud throughput on the Mac, 
>particularly if you are writing something that doesn't do serial I/O.  I've
>put together terminal programs that run at between 19200 and 9600 baud 
>throughput with minimal or no handshaking.  Those programs used some 
>optimized font drawing routines, but you can get better performance without
>going quite that far.  Some tips include:
>
[ good suggestions deleted ]
>

I have a replacement console driver for MPW C which uses some of the methods
discussed to implement a reasonably fast terminal that understands a subset
of ANSI commands.  Is there anyone out there who knows NetHack and is willing
to work with me on porting NetHack to MPW C?
("replacement console driver" => just write to stdout and it does the right
thing -- no source code modifications necessary!)

   Bo Lindbergh

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