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Falcon's Eye: a Make-over for Nethack

Posted by michael on from the rogue-still-the-best dept.

chromatic writes "Howard Wen has written two pieces on Falcon's Eye (an alternate interface for Nethack). The first is a description of Falcon's Eye and its features. The second is an interview with Jaakko Peltonen, the project's creator."

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  1. OH LORD! by Neck_of_the_Woods · · Score: 4, Funny


    Put down your crack pipes, your fat sappy, your smack, even your nose candy...there is a new drug in town...err old drug...err new and improved drug.

    When you find my body dead over the keyboard with nothing but coke cans and pizza boxes just tell my parents I love them.

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  2. Hardware accelerated text game by thinkliberty · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think that this has got to be the only text base video game that works better with a video card that supports hardware acceleration.

    Now even people with dyslexia can play nethack!

  3. It's an EMACS plot, I tell ya! by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny
    What?!

    NetHack with a mouse?!

    How the hell are we supposed to get n00bz to use h, j, k, and l to move the cursor, the way God intended?

    This is all the work of some EMACS d00dz, I tell ya.

    Next thing you know, they'll release Omega 1.00 with a graphical interface and call it Duke Nukem Forever.

  4. 6 degress... by airrage · · Score: 4, Funny

    The nethack.org site has a willwheaton link. It always seems every slashdot story has 6 degrees separation between the article and willwheaton.com. ;)

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    "This isn't a study in computer science, its a study in human behavior"
  5. Wow!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    He took a 1970's era game and made it look like a 1980's era game, in 2001!! Now that's what I call progress!

  6. That's nothing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've written a 3D wrapper around the original pong code, and it looks like real tennis players, motion captured and all.

    They look kind of awkward running back and forth at the service line though.

  7. nethack in 3d by The_Rook · · Score: 4, Funny

    i'm sorry, but falcon's eye still doesn't look right. everyone knows that if they ever made a true 3d version of nethack is would have ascii text characters fully rendered in 3d. i'm still waiting for a 3d hethack where i'm a 3d ampersand running away from a fully rendered 'B'.

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  8. Wow. This is cool. by CleverNickName · · Score: 5, Funny

    Heh.

    Actually, it's wil wheaton dot net :)

    Now I feel like I've arrived.

    Now I have to go play Net Hack for several hours, just to die in the mines while blind.

    And Mrs. Wheaton will go to bed alone, again.