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From: richard@islenet.UUCP (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacHack (1.0.3)
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Date: Sun, 16-Aug-87 07:03:07 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 16 07:03:07 1987
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> 
> >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 don't have a Macintosh, but it would seem to make sense for someone
to take the time to port one of the public domain curses packages
to the Mac first.

Then you could much more easily port other unix-based games to it too.









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Richard Foulk		...{dual,vortex,ihnp4}!islenet!richard
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