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Where are the old dos-like RPG games? Can you say rogue? Nethack?
Jason Arthur Taylor:
http://www.dosgames.com/g_rpg.php
http://www.dosgames.com/screens/rogue.gif
Why no games like this on the rockbox????? Seems perfect since there is no typing required usually. Just up down left right and the you need to select like a potion to use on the monster and the direction to cast the spell, etc. Seems like it would be a simple select button that would pop up a keyboard-like option menu. How much work is it to do a port from borland c++ to arm? I gotta a sansa clip. Just guessing it is an arm cpu though.
saratoga:
If the source is available under suitable license, probably not too difficult. I'd guess the problem is lack of interest.
GodEater:
--- Quote from: Jason Taylor on December 28, 2009, 07:33:52 PM ---How much work is it to do a port from borland c++ to arm?
--- End quote ---
This question is entirely irrelevant, since nethack is written in C, not C++.
This is good news - since getting C++ code to compile and run with Rockbox is something no-one has worked on ever. This doesn't mean it'll be easy though.
torne:
Nethack has something in the region of 100 commands, how are you going to map them? It's not just up/down/left/right, pretty much every key on the keyboard is used, with and without shift, then some more with alt...
GodEater:
...and actual typed commands you access from the '#' prompt.
It would be a pretty hectic menu system to cope with all that.
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