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From: jmward@elbert.uccs.edu (Joel M. Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Nethack
Date: 26 Jun 1993 22:12:56 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
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An a related yet unrelated note,
I have nethack for NetBSD. I only ran it once, and the graphics are so
horrible that i didn't even want to play it. This is without X.
On PC NetHack, they use 8-bit IBM chars to getthe walls to connect and
such.
How hard wouldit be to make the text graphics (interesting oxymorom)
look cool on IBMs, but not break it for 7-bit terminals?
The same goes for all the other games, and the same idea could be used for
menu-driven utilities, too.
--
++Joel;