Thread: Nethack on OS2008
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jcwilk is offline jcwilk
2009-12-16 , 01:34
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Originally Posted by Addison View Post
The neat thing about nethack.alt.org is that it pretty much will accept any window's size terminal screen.

But really, you need a minimum of 51 columns to see the failure percentage of the spells your character has learned even though I guess that's not a complete neccesity.

So there's quite a bit of flexibility on how to have it displayed on the screen.

80x25 with a 16 size font is easily possible by removing the one pixel border in the virtual machine.

You could also choose between big font, small font, big virtual keyboard or small one, landscape or portrait. Whatever you think would be the best layout for you.

My current setup with my N800 uses a 51x25 terminal screen with a friendly touchscreen keyboard.

If anyone has some good ideas on a layout, feel free to share.

By the way, does Diablo sport any transparency hacks that could be used with Xkbd? I searched but didn't see one.

Here's a pick of my gaming session through NAO.

Gave it a try on my n900 and I can't seem to find a package for the on screen xkbd, maybe it's not ported over yet? Tried playing it just with the hardware keyboard and the arrow keys didn't work so that kind of killed it x_X probably some issue with the telnet client? But without a numpad that i can merrily jam on with my whole right hand I think I'd still have to have stylus support for it to be enjoyable, just for movement I mean. The extra onscreen stuff in the gtk os2008 version was ok, but with a hardware keyboard anything that maps to a key without needing to hit # first really doesn't deserve real estate... And most of the stuff that requires # didn't have an onscreen button for it, it was very strange which ones were chosen to have an onscreen presence.

Vulture's Eye is ok but it still needs a fair amount of tweaking to fully utilize the hardware keyboard... plus it's pretty hard to see what's what with the 3d view, but it's a fun aesthetic change.