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  • invisible corridors in Nethack 3.6.7

    From Julian@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 7 22:13:35 2023
    In the Nethack application (as opposed to NethackW), the corridors are not shown. I tried fiddling with the lit_corridor option to no avail. Pretty much unplayable because of fumbling in the dark in corridors. I like the tiled version, but I can put
    both versions to use. Anyone else experience this? Some option must fix the concern.

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  • From Pat Rankin@21:1/5 to Julian on Fri Sep 8 13:07:03 2023
    On Thursday, September 7, 2023 at 10:13:38 PM UTC-7, Julian wrote:
    In the Nethack application (as opposed to NethackW), the corridors
    are not shown. I tried fiddling with the lit_corridor option to no avail. Pretty much unplayable because of fumbling in the dark in corridors.
    I like the tiled version, but I can put both versions to use. Anyone else experience this? Some option must fix the concern.

    This is a Terminal bug in Windows 11 that affects nethack when
    it is displayed with IBMgraphics. The default font shown in the
    default size doesn't render the checkerboard special character
    properly.

    Changing either the font or its size (or both) reportedly fixes this.
    (I've seen the problem myself but never verified the workaround.)
    That needs to be done outside of nethack. Setting up a desktop
    shortcut to run the program and setting the font in the shortcut
    should work, or you can modify the Terminal program's settings
    to override its default.

    Alternatively, you could switch from IBMgraphics to the default
    (plain ASCII) characters, or force the corridor symbol to be '#'
    or some other character in your run-time configuration file. OPTIONS=S_corridor:35 would set corridor to ASCII character
    35 which is the decimal value for '#'. If you do that, it needs to
    come after any OPTIONS=symset:IBMgraphics (or deprecated
    OPTIONS:IBMgraphics) which sets it to checkerboard.

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  • From Yosemite Sam@21:1/5 to Pat Rankin on Fri Sep 8 18:44:42 2023
    On Friday, September 8, 2023 at 3:07:06 PM UTC-5, Pat Rankin wrote:
    On Thursday, September 7, 2023 at 10:13:38 PM UTC-7, Julian wrote:
    In the Nethack application (as opposed to NethackW), the corridors
    are not shown. I tried fiddling with the lit_corridor option to no avail. Pretty much unplayable because of fumbling in the dark in corridors.
    I like the tiled version, but I can put both versions to use. Anyone else experience this? Some option must fix the concern.
    This is a Terminal bug in Windows 11 that affects nethack when
    it is displayed with IBMgraphics. The default font shown in the
    default size doesn't render the checkerboard special character
    properly.

    Changing either the font or its size (or both) reportedly fixes this.
    (I've seen the problem myself but never verified the workaround.)
    That needs to be done outside of nethack. Setting up a desktop
    shortcut to run the program and setting the font in the shortcut
    should work, or you can modify the Terminal program's settings
    to override its default.

    Alternatively, you could switch from IBMgraphics to the default
    (plain ASCII) characters, or force the corridor symbol to be '#'
    or some other character in your run-time configuration file. OPTIONS=S_corridor:35 would set corridor to ASCII character
    35 which is the decimal value for '#'. If you do that, it needs to
    come after any OPTIONS=symset:IBMgraphics (or deprecated OPTIONS:IBMgraphics) which sets it to checkerboard.

    Thank you, this worked. I was able to solve it within the application. Right clicking somewhere and choosing Settings...

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