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From: peter@hari.VIEWlogic.com (Peter Colby)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: nethack and mswindows
Message-ID: <1990Aug17.152927.1825@viewlogic.com>
Date: 17 Aug 90 15:29:27 GMT
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In article <3210@gmdzi.UUCP>, strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) writes:
|> peter@hari.VIEWlogic.com (Peter Colby) writes:
|> 
|> >Note that the latest (and several patches back) version of nethack has a
|> >version that compiles and runs on the Macintosh under MacOS. Unless
Windows 3.0
|> >is every bit as bad as Mac fans say it is, it shouldn't be that big a job
|> >to convert the relevant code!
|> 
|> The ability to convert a big, old character based application quickly
|> discriminates the Macintosh architecture from the Windows architecture,
|> right? 
|> 
|> >Disclaimer: I hate PC's and would only use one under extreme duress.
I believe
|> >that qualifies me to make such statements as the one above.
|> 
|> Sure it does.
|> 
|> Wolfgang Strobl
|> #include <std.disclaimer.hpp>

Sorry, I should have put a :-) after my "disclaimer.

Seriously, as an earlier article points out, the Mac port handles all the same
types of issues an MS Windows port ought to and that is only a small percentage
of the full NetHack code (1% maybe?). Reporting that Mac portion ought to
solve your problems.

However, NetHack is still a character based program. All the Mac code really
does is put the standard curses screen from nethack into a "text" window
on the Mac! It may also add a few menus (but I never used those anyway).

DISCLAIMER: I really am a PC hater but that doesn't qualify me for anything
            important. In fact, it may not qualify me for anything much at all!

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