Xref: utzoo comp.sources.wanted:4083 rec.games.hack:2486 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!mcnc!decvax!mandrill!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,rec.games.hack Subject: Re: nethack for vms ?? Message-ID: <7707@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 5 May 88 00:33:13 GMT References: <13097@brl-adm.ARPA> <3531@ece-csc.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sources.wanted Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 31 As quoted from <3531@ece-csc.UUCP> by jnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall): +--------------- | In article <13097@brl-adm.ARPA> XGRUUNIX%DDATHD21.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (unix-src account) writes: | >Has anybody tried to port NETHACK to VAX/VMS ? | | It's not too difficult. Basically you need to do a couple of things: | > (deleted) | | 2) (annoying but not too hard) You need to deal with some of the | UNIX system calls that aren't supported under VMS. The termcap | stuff is easy enough to bypass if the idea of supporting only | VT100 etc is ok with you; in that case use the MS-DOS ANSI-type | sequences that are basically the same. You can get fancy and | modify things to use the VT100 graphics characters, but this is | a lot of trouble to do correctly. +--------------- Bullpuckey. The support's already there: DEC Rainbow graphics are virtually identical to VT100 graphics. I modified this under Unix in 1/2 hour; most of which time was in modifying the HACKOPTIONS processing to have an eighth- bit quoting technique. (I used ? as the quote character; ?? is a single ?, and ??? is an eighth-bit ?.) BTW, guys, when did the patches go out, and in which newsgroup? I haven't seen them here on ncoast yet. Can someone please mail them to me? Thanks in advance. -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc {well!hoptoad,uunet!marque,cbosgd,sun!mandrill}!ncoast!allbery Delphi: ALLBERY MCI Mail: BALLBERY