Nethack 3.4.3 [PSARC/2008/172 FastTrack timeout 03/11/2008]

[Dan Price]

On Wed 05 Mar 2008 at 11:06PM, Danek Duvall wrote:
> I doubt it would take much time, honestly.  I just never believed that the
> GUIs were useful, or pretty.  Like I said to one commenter, if you want to
> play Diablo, play Diablo (and we should see if that's remotely possible
> under virtualbox) -- it's a much better experience.

No, I don't want to play Diablo... it's not part of my adolescent games
reminiscence.

> I don't think this is an architectural issue (I'm not really that concerned
> about putting nethack on systems where X has been minimized out), so I
> suggest we can take it offline.  If there are other folks who really want a
> GUI for this, lemme know privately.

Well, you're registering pathnames with the ARC, so I thought it
appropriate.

> > Also, are you proposing a general potion-mixing architecture here?
> 
> No.  The potions in nethack, sadly, aren't compliant with the latest potion
> RFCs (I forget the numbers offhand), so it's kinda off in the weeds in that
> regard.  You won't be able to import nethack bones files, say, into GIMP in
> order to use a paintbrush dipped in a potion of hallucination.  There are
> simply better ways to get that effect.  And forget scroll sharing -- Google
> has made the once-expensive scroll of magic mapping dirt cheap, but the
> shopkeepers still jack up the zorkmids.

Elbereth!

        -dp

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