MSDOS visuals in 3.6? Or recommend a console emulator :)

[Whip]

Hi!

Is it possible to somehow run Nethack 3.6 so it looks like the MSDOS port? I used to run 3.43 in DosBox but there's no MSDOS port for 3.6.

I'm very partial to how it looks (Loading Image...). How can I make it look this way?

The Windows 10 cmd prompt has ugly dull colors and the extended symbols are wrong, as is the friendlies highlight. Otherwise it's pretty close. Can I maybe modify the prompt somehow or is there a console emu where that looks like an old MSDOS prompt with the colors and ANSI characters?

Thanks guys :)

[introsp3ctive]

Post by Whip
Hi!
Is it possible to somehow run Nethack 3.6 so it looks like the MSDOS port? I used to run 3.43 in DosBox but there's no MSDOS port for 3.6.
I'm very partial to how it looks (http://www.abandonwaredos.com/public/aban_img_screens/nethack-4.jpg). How can I make it look this way?
The Windows 10 cmd prompt has ugly dull colors and the extended symbols are wrong, as is the friendlies highlight. Otherwise it's pretty close. Can I maybe modify the prompt somehow or is there a console emu where that looks like an old MSDOS prompt with the colors and ANSI characters?
Thanks guys :)

Sorry no one has replied to this post before and I don't know if you ever managed to figure out how to get nethack running the way you want. I think what you're looking for is the CP437 character set which looks like this (Loading Image...).

You can accomplish this by using Putty to connect to NAO and configure putty to use the CP437 character set. The manual for putty is here (http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.52/htmldoc/Chapter4.html). Just do a CTRL+F and search "CP437" and it will tell you how to configure putty to use that character set. Once you've set this up, you can save this as a profile and skip this step in the future.

In your Nethack configuration file, you need to have "OPTIONS=IBMgraphics" somewhere in there. Once you've done this, you're good to go.

[Ben Collver]

Post by Whip
Is it possible to somehow run Nethack 3.6 so it looks like the MSDOS
port? I used to run 3.43 in DosBox but there's no MSDOS port for 3.6.

Here is a MSDOS port of 3.6

https://github.com/chasonr/nethack-3.6.0-patches/releases/tag/v1.1.2-msdos

[Bozo User]

Post by Ben Collver

Post by Whip
Is it possible to somehow run Nethack 3.6 so it looks like the MSDOS
port? I used to run 3.43 in DosBox but there's no MSDOS port for 3.6.

Here is a MSDOS port of 3.6
https://github.com/chasonr/nethack-3.6.0-patches/releases/tag/v1.1.2-msdos

Nice. Could a port of Slashem (a recent-ish forked one) be compiled
for DOS/FreeDOS?

Slashem, not SLEX, as it's too huge. Slashem has the perfect balance of
classes/roles/features and so on.

https://github.com/BarclayII/slashem-up

[Janis Papanagnou]

[...] Slashem has the perfect balance of
classes/roles/features and so on. [...]

I've played quite some variants recently;
and what you say resembles my experience -
or let's call it "my impression".

There's a couple interesting things spread
across variants, though, concerning levels
and user interface that would be worthwhile
to have.

Janis

[nhmall]

Post by Ben Collver

Post by Whip
Is it possible to somehow run Nethack 3.6 so it looks like the MSDOS
port? I used to run 3.43 in DosBox but there's no MSDOS port for 3.6.

Here is a MSDOS port of 3.6
https://github.com/chasonr/nethack-3.6.0-patches/releases/tag/v1.1.2-msdos

There's also the "official" download of 3.6.7:
https://www.nethack.org/v367/ports/download-msdos.html