Android Port
brian.ackermann
I've done a bit of searching, and I haven't found anything (positive
or negative), about the possibility of a nethack port to Google's
"Android" platform.
Anybody here have any knowledge or info on that?
Much Obliged,
Brian
Kaleb Olson
As far as I can tell android only supports java, and the nethack devs have
already said that a java port will not happen. From the Nethack FAQ:
>No. "Porting" to Java would actually be a complete rewrite, and we have no
>interest in that. There is no Java applet window port either.
But android will surely have telnet and ssh clients, so hope is not lost.
Kristoffer Björkman
says...
> brian.ackermann wrote:
> > I've done a bit of searching, and I haven't found anything (positive
> > or negative), about the possibility of a nethack port to Google's
> > "Android" platform.
> > Anybody here have any knowledge or info on that?
> already said that a java port will not happen. From the Nethack FAQ:
> >No. "Porting" to Java would actually be a complete rewrite, and we have no
> >interest in that. There is no Java applet window port either.
It's not even mainstream Java really, see <http://news.cnet.com/8301-
13580_3-9815495-39.html> and
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_android#Software_development>.
If this was r.g.r.d I'd recommend taking a look at Cibyl
<http://spel.bth.se/index.php/Cibyl> (a translator to allow compiled C
programs to execute in J2ME environment) though.
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brian.ackermann
>
> As far as I can tell android only supports java, and the nethack devs have
> already said that a java port will not happen. From the Nethack FAQ:
>
Well, while waiting for some other replies, I found stuff like this,
which look promising...
- http://devphone.com/java-why-not-write-an-android-application-in-c
- http://benno.id.au/blog/2007/11/13/android-native-apps
But Nethack is a bit bigger than those samples, so I'm guessing its
definately DO-able, but probably out of my abilities.
Brian
Tobe
successfully. Even managed to get a static tile set from some dude
who'd drawn a load of dragons and stuff for an Anagaband clone
somewhere. It looked really nice and played just like Rogue but when I
came to shop it around any initial interest died out after the buyers
found nothing animated and I found out they pay developers a relative
pittance.
Anyway.. my point was that it's definitely possible to port these kind
of games to relatively tiny (my Rogue + graphics < 64k) platforms. You
should have no trouble at all converting the C code to Java for
Android I reckon.
Of course.. there are companies that support native development on the
Android platform (and many others). Ideaworks 3D being one that comes
to mind.
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On Oct 16, 6:52 pm, "brian.ackermann" <brian.ackerm...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Oct 15, 5:22 pm, Kaleb Olson <kaleb.ol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > As far as I can tell android only supports java, and the nethack devs have
> > already said that a java port will not happen. From the Nethack FAQ:
>
> Well, while waiting for some other replies, I found stuff like this,
> which look promising...
> -http://devphone.com/java-why-not-write-an-android-application-in-c
> -http://benno.id.au/blog/2007/11/13/android-native-apps
Vinic
Is a simple Telnet-style app that connects to NAO out of the question?
Vinic
In fact, I'm able to use ConnectBot ( http://code.google.com/feeds/p/connectbot/downloads/basic
-- stable version available in Android Market ) to SSH into my home
desktop and then telnet into NAO. When selecting a class during
creation it takes me back to the main NAO menu, but having it pick for
me takes me right into the game. I haven't had any problems during
gameplay at all.
Pasi Kallinen
This sounds like C343-198:
Playing in a 20 or 21 line window can cause the game to crash.
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Pasi Kallinen <pa...@alt.org> wrote:
>Vinic <gril...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 31, 4:05 pm, Vinic <grill...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is a simple Telnet-style app that connects to NAO out of the question?
>>
>> In fact, I'm able to use ConnectBot (
>http://code.google.com/feeds/p/connectbot/downloads/basic
>> -- stable version available in Android Market ) to SSH into my home
>> desktop and then telnet into NAO. When selecting a class during
>> creation it takes me back to the main NAO menu, but having it pick for
>> me takes me right into the game. I haven't had any problems during
>> gameplay at all.
>
>This sounds like C343-198:
>Playing in a 20 or 21 line window can cause the game to crash.
I'm doing this on my new G1 right now. I get a 21x80 screen, and the
top 20 lines scroll through the 40 lines of screen.
I do have to use connectbot to ssh to another machine that can telnet.
I also had a problem or a while that alt-3 was giving me a @ rather
than a #, but that seems to be over.
hawk