Roguelike: ADOM on the Pandora

[klapse]

There is a great classic roguelike called ADOM. http://www.adom.de/


You can play on Pandora from the public ssh server (free) - you can also spectate live games - http://ancardia.us.to/


DOS build (for DOSBox) http://www.adom.de/adom/archive.php3


Amiga build (and others) http://www.ancardia.com/download.html


But it would be really nice if we could persuade Thomas Biskup to release a version for Pandora. You can contact him via his facebook (yeah yeah, i know) page http://www.facebook.com/thomas.biskup

 

[Link]

Man, he just raised $90K on indiegogo... We need to put his people in touch with the Days of Dawn people.

 

[Monkfish]

ADoM has always been a personal favourite of mine and i'd welcome it on the Pandora (maybe using the nubs to take steps)

 

[Link]

I sent him a message, if others follow suit, who knows?

 

[Monkfish]

i'd love to message him about this but i cant do facebook! Perhaps the Pandora community can undertake the Postcard Quest and ask him as a footnote...

 

[klapse]

Unfortunately, the public ADOM server requires an 80x25 screen, exactly sized, to play. This is silly because one can spectate just fine with a 98x25 screen.

 

[ptitSeb]

What is the problem with 80x25 screen? If you want, take a look at the cataclysm roguelike PND, I had to setup a terminal with this exact dimensions for it to run (just grab the urxvt terminal and lauch it with the same command line as in the runscript.sh, I defined the right geometry and a tiny font that fit the screen).

 

[klapse]

I cannot currently access my pandora.. can you provide the rxvt commandline please?


I already requested that they remove the artificial constraint on windowsize...

 

[lomaxx]

Copy/pasted from the runscript of the cataclysm.pnd:

./rxvt +sb -geometry 80x25 -title "Cataclysm roguelike" -fn "xft:Liberation Mono:pixelsize=13"  -e ./cataclysm

 

[zenorogue]

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but you can download the Raspberry Pi version of ADOM from http://www.ancardia.com/download.html ("Raspbian"), and it basically works out of the box on Pandora No good diagonal movement, though.

Unfortunately, It seems that the graphics engine (NotEye) requires more CPU power than Pandora has, so graphical ADOM might be a problem (I have tried with Hydra Slayer and it has a very low framerate on Pandora).

 

[ptitSeb]

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but you can download the Raspberry Pi version of ADOM from http://www.ancardia.com/download.html ("Raspbian"), and it basically works out of the box on Pandora No good diagonal movement, though.

Unfortunately, It seems that the graphics engine (NotEye) requires more CPU power than Pandora has, so graphical ADOM might be a problem (I have tried with Hydra Slayer and it has a very low framerate on Pandora).

The graphic engine is probably based on OpenGL... No sources anyway, so no way to check and proper port.

 

[akeley]

Interesting, though without diagonals rather unplayable. This seems to be a common issue with handheld roguelikes.

ADOM runs okay in DOSBox Ex - and it`s possible to use custom mapper to deal with the diagonals. Unfortunately when I tried to map them to ABXY it did not work, and the keyboard itself is fully utilised for in-game commands. Headache.

 

[NearTao]

Does it have a vi keys mode?

EDIT:  link might prove useful http://www.adom.de/forums/showthread.php/1202-Keyboard-Customization

 

[commander-beef]

Interesting, though without diagonals rather unplayable. This seems to be a common issue with handheld roguelikes.

ADOM runs okay in DOSBox Ex - and it`s possible to use custom mapper to deal with the diagonals. Unfortunately when I tried to map them to ABXY it did not work, and the keyboard itself is fully utilised for in-game commands. Headache.

Maybe use "Purge Pandora Keys" firstly and then re-set new keys in DosBox EX?