Re: NetHack on the II (was Re: *Karateka*)

[cranem@netcom.com (Michael Crane)]

jeffr@bmerha2a.bnr.ca (Jeffrey Robertson) writes:
>Well, _I_ do!  The only game I play these days in nethack 3.1.3, which is
>available on my Unix system here at work.  I'd love to see a version of this
>ported to the IIgs (or indeed, a 8-bit II), but I haven't the time or skill
>to do it.  Given that the source code is free and is designed to run
>on a 80x24 VT100 (among other things), a bare bones implementation should
>be possible.
>Has anyone thought about such an undertaking?

It would be *quite* a task - even on a Macintosh (which is officially supported
by the dev team) it can be quite slow unless you've got at least a '030 system
- and even then it bogs down on a slow(er) hard disk.  Not impossible, but
certianly challenging.  All I know is that I'm not up to this one, but I'm not
a wiz with these things like Bill Heineman or Jawaid Bazyar (to name a couple
of promenent programming folks.)