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From: ian@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ (Ian Dall)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Nethack on PC/AT machines.
Message-ID: <453@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ>
Date: 10 Jan 90 03:57:19 GMT
Reply-To: ian@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ (Ian Dall)
Organization: Engineering, Uni of Adelaide, Australia
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This is not a bug report but I guess this is as close to a discussion group
for games as we have.

Some friends of mine want Nethack for their PC's having played it on
my real computer. I read Install.dos and am approaching the task with
much trepidation (I thought I left overlays behind when I stopped
writing for PDP-11s 5 years ago. Now they (overlays) are coming back
to haunt me)! Also, I know very little about PCs (and want to learn the
absolute minimum).

What I want to know is whether you can run Nethack on a 2MB AT class
machine WITHOUT overlays? There is enough memory, but are there Messy-Dog
limitations which prevent me using it?



-- 
Ian Dall     life (n). A sexually transmitted disease which afflicts
                       some people more severely than others.