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  • improving Hack and Super Rogue modern keyboard support?

    From David Chmelik@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 4 04:17:58 2019
    How hard would it be to update final versions of Hack and Super Rogue to
    use arrow-key & number-pad movement when compiled on modern POSIX-based
    OSes? I tried updating Super Rogue on a GNU/Linux (and maybe a classic
    *BSD) to do that but the pure terminal behaved kind of strangely so most number-pad keys (with lock off) didn't (only some did) do what they were supposed to do. It'd be fun to see these old games be easily playable (letter-key movement is just horrible/confusing) since Hack might be
    easier than newer NetHack and Super Rogue was reportedly easier than
    Rogue.

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  • From David Damerell@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 4 23:36:46 2019
    Quoting David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com>:
    How hard would it be to update final versions of Hack and Super Rogue to
    use arrow-key & number-pad movement when compiled on modern POSIX-based
    OSes?

    I imagine it would be easier to remap your keyboard so the arrow and
    numberpad keys send hjklyubn, akin to PuTTY's "NetHack Mode" which does
    just that.

    I also imagine it would be easier to learn the vi keys.
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