ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan) (01/10/90)
In article <453@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ>, ian@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ (I writes: |>Some friends of mine want Nethack for their PC's having played it on |>my real computer. I read Install.dos and am approaching the task with |>much trepidation (I thought I left overlays behind when I stopped |>writing for PDP-11s 5 years ago. Now they (overlays) are coming back |>to haunt me)! Also, I know very little about PCs (and want to learn the |>absolute minimum). |> |>What I want to know is whether you can run Nethack on a 2MB AT class |>machine WITHOUT overlays? There is enough memory, but are there Messy-Dog |>limitations which prevent me using it? This all depends on what operating system you are running. Under vanilla MSDOS, you will run into the 640K barrier that is the reason we have overlays in the first place. Under OS/2 or Xenix/286 it should be both possible and relatively easy. The good news for MSDOS users is that a RAM disk and large disk cache can make the game (ver. 3.0 patch level 6) go quite quickly. This line of discussion probably belongs in rec.games.hack! Ron +-----All Views Expressed Are My Own And Are Not Necessarily Shared By------+ +------------------------------My Employer----------------------------------+ + Ronald S. Woan (IBM VNET)WOAN AT AUSTIN, (AUSTIN)ron@woan.austin.ibm.com + + outside of IBM @cs.utexas.edu:ibmchs!auschs!woan.austin.ibm.com!ron +
ian@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ (Ian Dall) (01/10/90)
This is not a bug report but I guess this is as close to a discussion group
for games as we have.
Some friends of mine want Nethack for their PC's having played it on
my real computer. I read Install.dos and am approaching the task with
much trepidation (I thought I left overlays behind when I stopped
writing for PDP-11s 5 years ago. Now they (overlays) are coming back
to haunt me)! Also, I know very little about PCs (and want to learn the
absolute minimum).
What I want to know is whether you can run Nethack on a 2MB AT class
machine WITHOUT overlays? There is enough memory, but are there Messy-Dog
limitations which prevent me using it?
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