Nethack in Rockbox?

[theli]

as a nicer solution we can use some simple tiles

[Llorean]

I think tiles would basically be essential for Nethack to work on Rockbox.

[theli]

maybe but at first i though about just using smallest availible font ....

[Llorean]

I don't think that'd work very well. It'd be possible, and probably the best plan for the H120 and maybe the Archoses, but you'd get a lot more clarity with some halfway decent tiles and color coding. It might be frustrating to be unable to tell the difference between something beneficial and something negative.

[mikeage]

I think tiles would basically be essential for Nethack to work on Rockbox.

I still play nethack in text mode... no colors, no tiles.

That said, in my mind, nethack requires a full keyboard... I've tried it on a pocketpc, and it's just too awkward to play.

[Llorean]

I play in text mode on a PC, but on a 176x132 pixel LCD that's not as clear as it could be, I think having some colored tiles would help visibility. Though no really way to know until it's testable, 'eh?

[tucoz]

Maybe iRogue is a good starting point to get a roguelike game in rockbox. This is made for PalmOS which is a little bit more rockboxish than the vanilla nethack is. http://roguelike-palm.sourceforge.net/iRogue/

[BigMac]

I am in no way a person to decide what can and can't be done, but those screenshots lead me to believe it could look nice and be done with rockbox.
Keep ROCKing On!
EDIT:Woops, didn't realize how old this topic was. Sorry for being the gravedigger.

[mipodr]

heh got hooked in looking at the former post.

[Ajax]

has anyone been doing anything with this? I got hooked checking out the nethack homepage and reading those comics :] would be a perfect game to waste another month or so of my life with :]

-Ajax

[alawi]

I see that this thread hasn't been active in two years, but I would definitely be willing to contribute some effort to making this happen.  I have plenty of experience playing nethack at this point (though still far from ascending!), but no experience with writing a plugin for RockBox.  Are any more seasoned developers interested in working on this?

[GodEater]

I would guess from the lack of activity over the last two years, the answer is probably "no" 

I'll move this into "Feature Requests" on the off chance that some talented soul has missed it here though.