Vulture
Vulture's Eye and Vulture's Claw are isometric graphical user interfaces for NetHack and SLASH'EM, respectively. The Vulture's project continues the abandoned Falcon's Eye project.
Vulture's is an answer to anyone who believes that the interface of NetHack is too primitive. Vulture's contains comparatively lavish graphics and also boasts background music and sound effects.
Rotated perspective
In contrast to other interfaces, Vulture's rotates the entire map by forty-five degrees. North in traditional interfaces becomes northwest in Vulture's. To make a diagonal move (across the corner of a square) with the number_pad, you would press [7931] for traditional interfaces but [8624] for Vulture's.
Distribution
The download page provides Vulture's in two forms, as an installer for Microsoft Windows, and as source code for multiple platforms. The distribution is not a patch; it includes a copy of NetHack or SLASH'EM, with modifications to support Vulture's.
To install Vulture's for Unix, you will need to fetch the source code and compile it (unless someone has made a binary for you). To compile it, you will need to have libpng, SDL, GNU make and a compiler (probably GNU gcc).
Vulture's 2.1.1 appeared at 12 January 2008. New in 2.1.1:
- Vulture's Claw receives an update from SLASH'EM 0.0.7E7F2 to SLASH'EM 0.0.7E7F3.
- Vulture's now supports the vi keys, previously number_pad was always on. (issue 11)
- Other "bug and performance fixing".
Vulture's development moved from Darcs to Subversion, sometime between the 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 releases.
The current Windows version of Vulture's Eye (2.1.1) has a bug that prevents Quest levels from loading properly. No patch has been released to fix this bug. The bug is listed as fixed in the official bug tracker, and we can thus assume that 2.1.2 will have the fix.
External Links
- Official website
- Downloads of the latest release
- WebSVN to browse the Subversion repository
- Mantis (bug tracker) to report issues with Vulture's
