To move vertically in nethack k moves one row up and j moves one row
down. Nethack usually has one accessibility configuration file in its
distributions and that can start a good .nethackrc file. So long as two
human or near human characters aren't on a level a search for the @
character will find where you are at. I usually get screen coordinates
from the screen reader for special places on any level and store those
coordinates and location description in an orgmode database as I play
the game. I think once nethack is installed on a machine searching for
nhaccess will find you the accessibility defaults file and that can be
done with the locate command in linux easily enough.
On Wed, 9 Nov 2016, Travis Siegel wrote:
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 10:27:57
From: Travis Siegel <tsie...@nfbcal.org>
Reply-To: Gamers Discussion list <gamers@audyssey.org>
To: Gamers Discussion list <gamers@audyssey.org>
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] nethack useful command
Wow, I've been playing nethack for years and years, and didn't know about the
underscore key. Heh. I've never won a game either, but I had much better
luck playing nethack on dos than any other operating system, because of the
way cursor tracking and movement is done. I can still play it on
linux/bsd/osx, but it's much more of a pain, since (as far as I know) it's
not possible to move up/down in those screen readers and stay at the same
columnof the screen. Empire is another game similar to nethack in it's
movement, that uses symbols to show various game pieces and terrain features,
and although I have managed to win that one here and there, it's made harder
by the need to determine capital vs. lower case characters, which in itself
isn't difficult, but after a while, you assume you know the screen layout,
and then the computer sneaks in under your nose, because you didn't check
that troop transport, and later discover it belonged to the computer instead
of to you. :)
I've actually considered making an audio game out of empire, it might be
difficult to manage, but I think if it were done, it would make tracking
enemy pieces much easier.
On 11/4/2016 7:34 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
rogue; hack, and nethack are a family of top view video games written for
computers during the 1980's and 1990's and updated since then. In nethack,
the underscore key command is useful since on any level where you have
identified a location like an altar stairs or fountain you can use the
underscore or underline key command to return to those locations by keying
in the symbol to move to once the underscore key is hit. If monsters are
blocking you, you'll have to fight those then repeat the underscore command
from your new position to get to the original desired location. I've been
playing nethack since the 1990's and haven't won any of those games yet so
it is not a trivial game. What usually kills me off is mass attacks
anymore. I can usually get to experience level 7 before that happens these
days though and the experience level is improving at least. Experience
levels in nethack run from 0 to 30. Level 1 requires 16 monsters to be
killed and each level after that doubles the amount of monsters to be
killed. I found nethack accessible on dos computers and on unix/linux
boxes playing within terminals since I learned how to interpret the symbols
andI have the ascii symbols enabled when I play since the tiles don't do a
thing for the screen readers I use. Since I retired, I abandoned windows
since I found I couldn't do a bare metal install of it and I found it to be
too unstable for my uses when I was working.
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