Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!unido!rwthinf!truth!krischan From: krischan@truth.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Christian Engel) Newsgroups: comp.os.os9 Subject: Re: TOP nethack problem\ Message-ID: <3569@rwthinf.UUCP> Date: 7 Oct 90 15:09:15 GMT References: Sender: news@rwthinf.UUCP Reply-To: krischan@truth.UUCP (Christian Engel) Organization: Informatik RWTH Aachen Lines: 27 In article rh2y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Russell E. Hoffman, II) writes: >Does anybody out there know the appropriate way to get the TOP version >of Nethack to run? I have tried, yet as far as I can get is to >the error message 'Cannot get status of nethack3'. >I have the following files: nethack3, nethack, nh305_nethack3. >I have set up the directory /h0/usr/games/lib/nethack3dir. >Am I missing files? This is entirely possible, as I have not yet >managed to get the TOP package in its entirety. I can get any specific >files I need, but our machines here do not have the resources to deal >with the whole package... Can anybody help? Thanks in advance. > > >Russ Some time ago I tried to run the nethack 3 of TOP on a small ATARI 520+ (1 MByte of memory). I remember I got some weired error messages I couldn't understand. At last it cme out that there wasn't enough memory to run nethack 3. Maybe that's your problem, too. You require at least 1.2 MByte free memory in one or just few large chunks. krischan. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- krischan@informatik.rwth-aachen.de *** mcvax!unido!rwthinf!strange!krischan Christian Engel, Lehrstuhl fuer Informatik I, RWTH Aachen Ahornstr. 55, D-5100 Aachen, W. Germany