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From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: MacHack (1.0.3)
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Date: Fri, 14-Aug-87 12:16:50 EDT
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In article <895@aurora.UUCP> wiedmann@aurora.UUCP (Christian Wiedmann) writes:
>I picked up MacHack off of the net. It's pretty impressive, but now I wish
>I'd never played NetHack, cause I'm hooked. 

funny, I prefer hack (actually, I prefer rogue 5.3...). Nethack isn't well
balanced yet, and very complex.

>Does anyone out there know if there's an
>effort going on to port NetHack to the Mac. It seems to me that it wouldn't
>be very hard (well, relatively speaking) given that Lightspeed C has a library
>which supports curses.

No, it really doesn't.  It supports some of the precursors of curses exist,
but a good portion of the calls you need to support hack are missing.  LSC
did a good job of implementing them for mackhack, and maybe they'll show up
in a later release.

I've looked at nethack, and I might work on it later, but there are enough
problems in the initial release that it wasn't worth trying to port.  Maybe
after the first set of patches show up....

chuq
Chuq Von Rospach	chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

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