Talk:Nethack.alt.org
The Crash
What's the deal with The Crash? The information at http://alt.org/nethack/news.php is vague, to say the least. I though that I had a game saved from several months ago (2007, somewhere between July and November), but it's not there now; is The Crash the reason? And is there any hope?—Toby Bartels 22:18, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
- The hard drive where nethack was crashed; read/write errors all over the place, so files were lost. The new server playground is done from scratch, so saved games wouldn't be compatible anyway. --paxed 10:18, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks, paxed! Do you know the date (or month) when this happened? It should probably be in the article; certainly this seemed to me the obvious first place to look once the site's own news page didn't help. —Toby Bartels 03:11, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
Tiles
Is there anyway to play nethack with tiles on a remote server? Ha! Showed you! 01:10, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
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Someone wrote a curses interface: [1]
Does this thing work already? If yes, could it be placed on the server? If both yes, would it fix this obnoxious bug that you have to press escape all the time to skip past the battle spam? -Tjr 12:17, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
It's odd that you say "obnoxious bug" for the standard behaviour, as if this were something unusual about NAO that it doesn't use tiles. Maybe "missing feature"? All the same, that does look nice; whether it will work for NAO (whose telnet server will have to detect whether people are logging in from a big enough terminal) I'll leave to paxed to say. —Toby Bartels 13:05, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
- I didn't mean to insult anyone. I called it a bug from the point of view "user is annoyed at behavior inconsistent with expectations or industry standards", not as in "registered on bugzilla #1234567". Yes, this bothers me in standard nethack, too. Paxed, thank you for running NAO.
Karl Garrison, thank you for coding the interface. [an earlier annoucement of the code] -Tjr 13:23, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
