Xref: utzoo rec.games.hack:9421 comp.windows.ms:4619 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!orc!inews!iwarp.intel.com!gargoyle!chinet!patrickd From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree) Newsgroups: rec.games.hack,comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: nethack and mswindows Message-ID: <1990Aug27.235343.7021@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 27 Aug 90 23:53:43 GMT References: Organization: The Whitewater Group, Evanston, IL Lines: 40 In article hairston@henry.ece.cmu.edu (David Hairston) writes: >constructive criticism: >why not use the ascii representations for the character/monsters? I'm definatly going to do this in the first port since it would be rough on a lot of people to say "Here's the game, but have fun figuring out what I used to represent this thing." I can just see the hate mail I'd get from that. @:) >about those menus, try something innovative like defining a minimal >set of useful menu commands. putting everything available into menus >serves little purpose since no one can reasonably play the game from >menus anyway. nethack is really best played with minimal interface >distractions ... (oh no, a new thread). Considering the 50 or so commands in Nethack it would be really ugly to have a menu for all choices. I figure that there will be no menu choices for "actions". Only menu choices for save, quit, etc (I think I can get rid of shell). I was thinking of putting a floating window up with arrow buttons for movement, but I think I'll pass for now. >one final point: >nethack 3.0 has apparently run its course. it will obviously be >supported for some time to come but only in the sense of bug fixes >(no new features). since windows 3.0 is making an impact in the >pc world it would be nice to have a _good_ windows port. take your >time and make it a good one! This was my thought also (making a good port, that is). In order to do so I'm going to have to change away a couple of things that might not make the nethack code gurus happy (since it involves ditching their "allmain" file), but it's the best way to make a really clean port. So, I know how I'm going to do this. I've even found all the sections of the code that will have to change. Now for the hard part. @:) -- "Organized fandom is composed of a bunch of nitpickers with a thing for trivial pursuit." -Harlan Ellison Patrick Deupree -> patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us