[Audyssey] nethack useful command

[Jude DaShiell]

rogue; hack, and nethack are a family of top view video games written for 
computers during the 1980's and 1990's and updated since then.  In 
nethack, the underscore key command is useful since on any level where you 
have identified a location like an altar stairs or fountain you can use 
the underscore or underline key command to return to those locations by 
keying in the symbol to move to once the underscore key is hit.  If 
monsters are blocking you, you'll have to fight those then repeat the 
underscore command from your new position to get to the original desired 
location.  I've been playing nethack since the 1990's and haven't won any 
of those games yet so it is not a trivial game.  What usually kills me off 
is mass attacks anymore.  I can usually get to experience level 7 before 
that happens these days though and the experience level is improving at 
least.  Experience levels in nethack run from 0 to 30.  Level 1 requires 
16 monsters to be killed and each level after that doubles the amount of 
monsters to be killed.  I found nethack accessible on dos computers and on 
unix/linux boxes playing within terminals since I learned how to interpret 
the symbols andI have the ascii symbols enabled when I play since the 
tiles don't do a thing for the screen readers I use.  Since I retired, I 
abandoned windows since I found I couldn't do a bare metal install of it 
and I found it to be too unstable for my uses when I was working.


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