* the hatter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > [1] I first started playing rogue on an Atari ST, running some sort > > of DOS emulator. So you had to load the emulator, boot DOS into it > > and then run rogue (or it might of been hack, it was a long > > long time ago) > > Seems unnuecessarily complex, you could get nethack cross-compiled for the > ST. It was one of those things that all those PD companies whose > catalogues looked distinctly similar to umich/sunsites mirrors supplied. >
I just came across rogue by accident when looking at some MS-DOS disks after loading the emulator. I didn't really become hideously addicted to it until I was about 18 and was playing it on a 286. However I remember the PD catalogues well. I'm trying to remember how much they cost per floppy, to see if it they were better value than downloading by a low baud modem. The problem is I had a different perspective on money back then, so I seem to remember they were costly, when they might of only been a quid a piece. I learned C using a C compiler from a PD company, personal C compiler i think it was called. Greg -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/ jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
