Re: Loss of color on console in nethack with ncurses 4.2
On Fri, 30 Oct, 1998, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> I'm at a loss myself. Now that we've moved to ncurses 4.2 from 3.4,
> nethack's color support on the Linux console no longer works. I've
> recompiled Nethack against 4.2 and although color works in an xterm,
> it does not work on the Linux console any more.
>
> Is this:
>
> A) a bug in nethack
> B) a bug in ncurses
> C) both
>
> In the past, I applied Jesse Thilo's patch from
> http://res1412523003.res.lehigh.edu/~jthilo/NetHack/nh322-linux.diff.gz
> to enable color on the Linux console. Could this need updating
> to work with ncurses 4.2?
>
> If someone more familiar with ncurses than I could take a look at this
> patch and see if it's doing something obviously wrong for ncurses 4.2,
> I'd really appreciate it.
same here, mind you i have been missing color from nethack for a while,
on a side note aalib is broken, a run the example program and loads of dots
just fly past on the screen, it is as if it is drawing each frame without
clearing the screen, also it is is not in differnet shades, i wonder if the
problem is related.
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