[ANNOUNCE] UnNethack: a modern nethack
 

Hi everyone.

Good news: I've ported nethack to the n900.

Check it out from extras-testing:

http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...hack/3.5.3-18/

I've decided to use the unnethack variant as a base, since vanilla nethack hasn't been updated in a decade, and unnethack fixes many bugs and balance/ui issues.

You can read about unnethack here: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/unnethack/

P.S. I've used a fancy ncurses text-mode UI in this port, given that the tile-mode graphics are completely illegible on a screen like the N900's.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] UnNethack: a modern nethack
 

Been running this one happily for months but yours seems to be more polished, even handles full/non-full screen changes well. Well done, thanks!

Should you need a bit more descriptive icon, here's one free to be used:
http://www.ktverkko.fi/~tjheikki/gfx/nethack.png

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Hi,

Thanks for this port - looks promising, and has rekindled my interest in the game not having played for a while. Goodbye large amounts of spare time :-).

I have a couple of questions:

1) After playing for a short while, the @ representing my character and my pet inverted colours. Not quite sure why, or what I pressed to cause this!

2) Main problem I'm having is that I cannot make out any yellow monsters/objects on the white background, often to disastrous effect. Is there any way around this?

3) Any chance it could be possible to have <shift>+<arrow key> = travel as far as possible in that direction, as for example with the shifted direction keys YUHJKLBN?

Thanks for any answers!

Spann

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1. Not sure what you mean -- they should be always inverted, actually. :)

2. AFAIK, the only way is to switch the terminal app's settings to have white text on black background. :(

3. I'll look into it, thanks.

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Hey tkatchev,

Thanks for the response. Am really enjoying playing this - tried a port on the N800 a few years back, but it never really worked that well without a keyboard. Can't think why it's taken me this long to realise that it might work well on the N900!

Having a black background might work better for the yellow objects. You mention changing the terminal app's settings - any guidance on how to do this? Do you mean the xterms settings, and hence this would affect all xterm instances?

Having played a little more, I've found the only keys I use frequently which I'm forced to go to the symbol menu for are the < and > keys for moving up/down stairs. Not sure if they could be mapped somewhere, like symbol + arrow key for example. Only a suggestion!

Spann

Re: [ANNOUNCE] UnNethack: a modern nethack
 

In response to my own post, I figured out how to change the colours - from the font option in the menu at the top.

Now I can't really see the blue objects lol, but that's probably more to do with the screen brightness setting I use.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] UnNethack: a modern nethack
 

Same here; is it possible to tweak the shade of blue used to a slightly lighter one?

EDIT. Pretty please... gnome lords in the mines are like unto ninjas, sneaking up on me and killing me...

Re: [ANNOUNCE] UnNethack: a modern nethack
 

AFAIK, no, not really possible. :(

It should have been an option in the x-terminal app, but for some reason Nokia decided that you should be able to change only the foreground and background colors, not the rest of the palette...

However, I don't think I have this problem on my device. Maybe it's different with a different font and/or screen brightness setting?

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Another question, which probably has a very obvious answer!

How do I name my character? I don't see a prompt when starting the game as with nethack.

So far all my characters are stuck with the rather bland name of 'user'!

Spann

Re: [ANNOUNCE] UnNethack: a modern nethack
 

Good point, I'll fix it in the next build. :)