Opie-nethack Not Working!

[javamatte]

Anybody had luck getting opie-nethack to install to sd?  After an ipkg install to sd and ipkg-link and make compat, it seems to work fine, BUT it won't save.  The only message I can get out of it is: "Cannot save file".

I absolutely love OZ, but I can't live long without my Nethack.  Some kind soul please help a poor adventurer    

BTW, it's the Hentges 3.5.2 OZ, nothing super special installed.

Thanks in advance...
-Matt

[vputz]

Opie-nethack?  It's not in OpenEmbedded, so I'm not sure how to get it to build.  Hmm.  I'm not familiar with opie-nethack; is it graphical, or would the good ol' text version work OK for you?

-->VPutz

[x86Daddy]

I got it running fine with vanilla 3.5.2 as follows:
Obtained and installed the 5thToe version from Hentges's own mirror.
Set it to use the compat libs.
Optionally, add in the missing icon from another nethack ipk

[javamatte]

Well, I got it working, thought I would follow up for posterity.

I never could get opie-nethack to save, so I removed it.

Downloaded gpe-nethack package from (feed at http://trolls.troll.no/warwick/nethack/ipk).

Installed (ipkg -dest sd --force-depends install qpe-nethack*).
It complains about qpe-base missing...ignore that.  I'm a total newbie with OZ/Opie, so I don't know why you should/shouldn't igore that, but I can tell you what worked for me.

Linked to root (ipkg-link add qpe-nethack)

Clicked on the funky makecompat icon, selected nethack from the lists and viola!

Now I need to fix the logo...

-Matt

[markj541]

I'm running Nethack on OpenZaurus, and after some fiddling, got the "save" option working. I'm still running OZ3.2, but this should work on any version.

The problem is that there's no save directory, hence, no place for the program to save. So, you'll need to add one. In my setup, I've installed Nethack to the SD card, so I did this:

# cd /mnt/card/opt/Qtopia/games/lib/nethackdir
# mkdir save
# cd /opt/Qtopia/games/lib/nethackdir
# ln -s /mnt/card/opt/Qtopia/games/lib/nethackdir/save save

I did it this way so that the save files are on the SD card, otherwise you might fill up the root partition with save files.

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Mark

[javamatte]

Congrats!  I will have to try that one.  I've got qpe-nethack going right now, and some things about it are definitely annoying me.  For one, I can't figure out how to set what @#%@#$ing font it uses.  I had to uninstall verdana-small, it was simply unreadable.   That, and the dialog windows going all funny-sized is pretty rough.

Speaking of icons, though, I whipped out Photoshop and cranked out what IMHO is a kind of fun icon.

It should be attached, but we'll see how it goes...

(edit)
Hmm, the attachment worked!  It looks kinda funny on the big screen, but it's pretty legible on the Z.  It's a wizard and his dog in front of a big @ sign.  If you've ever played the text version, you know where I'm coming from...