[Audyssey] Help with Roguelike games

[Ron Schamerhorn]

Hi Zach

  If I recall Michael did an extensive review in an older Audyssey issue 
about Nethack.  If I recall it said something about changing a file to make 
the walls and such appear as asky symbols.  Not sure if this is the exact 
answer you need but hope it helps you out.

Happy New Year
Ron
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline at hotmail.com>
To: <gamers at audyssey.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 7:31 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] Help with Roguelike games


Howdy,
    I'm wondering if there are still any blind players out in the Internet 
land that still play these games?  They were featured quite prominantly in 
the early issues of Audyssey, as were classics like Fallthru.
    I've begun trying to play a game of Nethack, and have encountered a few 
problems--possibly because it's for Windows console mode, and Window-Eyes 
has a great deal of trouble with that sometimes.
The main problem I have is somewhat difficult to describe.  But I'll try to 
do it below:
    Eessentially, blank spaces aren't being represented in the view of the 
screen I get with the mouse.  While the vast majority of any Nethack screen 
is symbols, it is still not all a regular grid shape and thus hard to figure 
out sometimes.  Areas which are especially difficult include determining 
when I've run into a wall versus hit a corridor, and determining which 
direction corridors lead.
A somewhat related problem is that when I move the mouse cursor down a line 
at a time, this doesn't stick in the same collumn, and thus telling exactly 
where things are is extremely difficult, because I have to go across the 
screen and try to count.  Ugh.
Michael?  Anybody more experienced than I?  Care to shed some possible light 
on how to deal with this?
Thanks,
Zack.
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