Roguelikes?

[Alex777]

Who's tried porting/playing a roguelike on the Pandora? I expect it to be a great platform for portable crawling.

Share your stories!

 

[NearTao]

Who's tried porting/playing a roguelike on the Pandora? I expect it to be a great platform for portable crawling.

Share your stories!

Tried to telnet to nethack.alt.org and got "error opening terminal: network", me thinks either some terminal files are missing or incorrectly set. Now to dig around and figure out what is actually wrong though :/.

 

[skeezix]

I did a quick look at porting Nethack, but it has a messy Makefile; really surprised no one fixed that over the years, to make it easy to cross compile, given it has relatively low system requirements otherwise.

I'm sure someone will get to it; otherwise, I'm really tird up the next month.. but if no one has done it by the time my life gets back to normal, I'll tackle it; we really need nethack (or gnomehack, etc.)

jeff

 

[relapse808]

My plan is to play Telengard with the C64 emulator!

 

[Gruntfuggly]

I'd love a port of the original Rogue. The GP32 version works very well - it might be a good place to start...

 

[Ze_ro]

I'd love to see someone port Dzz's GP2X port of Nethack. I know we don't really need the menus, since we have a full keyboard... but I always thought they worked really well with the game.

--Zero

 

[centus]

Am I missing something? why port Rogue? just play it on DosBox!

 

[moxie]

Because playing it on DosBox is a bit wasteful. Why run a (system-wise) very heavy emulator to run a program that only needs a quick recompile to run natively?

 

[xpansive]

I wouldn't mind POWDER.

 

[willrandship]

Yeah, powder should be the easiest port ever. ARM-based, GP2X port, touchscreen input, keyboard input. Basically, it supports everything the pandora does, and should be pretty easy to compile.

 

[Mjlink]

I was playing it on my DIngoo with a GBA port.

I don't see why it won't work on the Pandora.

Peace & Pandora,

Link

 

[joseluisjazz]

I intend to play Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup... The non tiles version should be easier to have from day way. Or even the online one via ssh!

 

[centus]

I just stumbled across Angband, open source, SDL based... looks like my first porting project!
http://rephial.org/

 

[kmob]

I just stumbled across Angband, open source, SDL based... looks like my first porting project!
http://rephial.org/

"just stumbled across Angband"! you mean you'd not already heard of it! May your trousers be infested by AMHDs !

Angband is awesome and has been around for ages, it's well worth checking out, it's also damn portable too.

 

[gaterooze]

Angband is awesome and has been around for ages, it's well worth checking out, it's also damn portable too.

The roguelike I've most played. Heck, the GAME I've most played. Way too addictive.

 

[Alex777]

Zangband is my preferred variant. I played the game a lot, but I eventually moved to Stone Soup because of how grindy it became.

 

[TLJRyan]

The only rogue(-ish) game I care about these days is Dwarf Fortress.

Don't know how slow it'd be on the Pandora, but it would be awesome.

 

[skeezix]

I've ported Angband (rephial edition.) Its set up to use the GTK frontend. SDL and x11 frontends were wonky

This is the latesr beta (not the stable), which has the tile options (like Adam Bolts etc) and more font options/etc; the stable version stinks for GTK

Will send p to the dl.openhandhelds soon.

Caution, this build still uses your NAND homedir for storing files, not the SD card; sorry about that, ran out of time for tonight. But its playable nicely

http://www.codejedi.com/pandora/angband/binaries/Angband312v2.pnd

jeff

 

[gaterooze]

Great, thanks skeezix - really looking forward to this when my Pandora comes!