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Dylan O'Donnell <psmithn...@spod-central.org> wrote: > Leonard Richardson ("robotfindskitten", "Guess the Verb!") hasn't been > along to announce this here, so I may as well point people at it: > http://www.crummy.com/devel/WhatFools/
Love it! I wonder if he's working on the long awaited "Nethack: Inventory Management", the game which does away with all the boring parts of Nethack that you have to slog through, like fighting, praying, quaffing, etc., and lets you get right to the meat of the game: inventory management! I'm picturing something like this...
Your hero has found an orcish dagger. (t)ake or (l)eave? t g - an orcish dagger Your hero says, "I don't think I want this leather armor any more." (t)ake or (d)rop? d Your hero says, "Hey, what do we have that's good against gelatinous cubes?" (u)se, (d)rop, (h)and over item, or (r)efuse? h r You hand over a wand of fire. Oops! Your hero just bit the dust. Do you want his possessions identified?
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On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Dylan O'Donnell wrote: > Leonard Richardson ("robotfindskitten", "Guess the Verb!") hasn't been > along to announce this here, so I may as well point people at it:
Ha! This looks great! The only trouble is, I can't figure out how to play it. I just installed Python 2.2.2 for Windows and tried to run the script, but I get errors about GetchUnix() and termios. Does this only work on Unix? What am I doing wrong?
Michael
Traceback (most recent call last): File "\unzip\whatfools-1.0\whatfools.py", line 187, in ? getch = _Getch() File "\unzip\whatfools-1.0\whatfools.py", line 154, in __init__ self.impl = _GetchUnix() File "\unzip\whatfools-1.0\whatfools.py", line 160, in __init__ import tty, sys File "C:\PROGRAM FILES\PYTHON\lib\tty.py", line 5, in ? from termios import * ImportError: No module named termios
Michael Lehotay <mleho...@hotmail.com> writes: > On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Dylan O'Donnell wrote: > > Leonard Richardson ("robotfindskitten", "Guess the Verb!") hasn't been > > along to announce this here, so I may as well point people at it: > > http://www.crummy.com/devel/WhatFools/ > Ha! This looks great! The only trouble is, I can't figure out how to > play it. I just installed Python 2.2.2 for Windows and tried to run > the script, but I get errors about GetchUnix() and termios. Does this > only work on Unix? What am I doing wrong?
I had the same problem, but it was fairly easy to comment out the offending portions. I'm still not sure whether this was supposed to work out of the box or my Python install is mucked up.
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Darshan Shaligram wrote: > Michael Lehotay <mleho...@hotmail.com> writes: > > On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Dylan O'Donnell wrote: > > > Leonard Richardson ("robotfindskitten", "Guess the Verb!") hasn't been > > > along to announce this here, so I may as well point people at it:
> > I just installed Python 2.2.2 for Windows and tried to run the script, > > but I get errors about GetchUnix() and termios. > I had the same problem, but it was fairly easy to comment out the > offending portions. I'm still not sure whether this was supposed to work > out of the box or my Python install is mucked up.
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Thanks Darshan. I love this game! I spent an hour or two playing around with Python and managed to create a Win32 executable. It's about 500K to download, but at least it's smaller than the Python interpreter.
OK, my hero dies quite fequently. Very very funny, but one peculiar question is still on my mind: is it really possible to help him to get the amulet, or this is completely randomized?
> OK, my hero dies quite fequently. Very very funny, but one peculiar > question is still on my mind: is it really possible to help him to get > the amulet, or this is completely randomized?
Having looked at the source, I can say with some certainty that your actions do affect your champion's chances. However, (s)he is a very good simulation of the average NetHack player so an ascension really takes patience. (More than I have, but it's a cute idea and fun for the few minutes it lasts.)
Sam Dennis <s...@malfunction.screaming.net> writes: > rekrutacja wrote: > > On 6/9/2003 12:45 PM, Dylan O'Donnell wrote: > >> http://www.crummy.com/devel/WhatFools/ > > OK, my hero dies quite fequently. Very very funny, but one peculiar > > question is still on my mind: is it really possible to help him to > > get the amulet, or this is completely randomized? > Having looked at the source, I can say with some certainty that your > actions do affect your champion's chances. However, (s)he is a very > good simulation of the average NetHack player so an ascension really > takes patience.
If you're desperate to see an ascension, you can always start off your chosen one in discovery mode.