Re: DOS nethack 3.4.3 too slow?

"B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson" <br.ederson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
in news:1acp0p5er5x07.dlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 22:20:48 +0000 (UTC), APLer wrote:

On Windows it is better to run the native Windows version instead of
the DOS version. It can be switched between tiles and ASCII, so you're
free to use the interface you like best.

Hows That? a version with a gui compiled into it is supposed to be more
efficient than a plain ascii one? Sorry, I don't agree.

If your PC has no problems running Win9x or NT4 or later, you won't
ever see timing issues because of the GUI routines of Nethack. What
you /may/ see with the DOS port running in a Virtual DOS machine in
Windows, though, are negotiation conflicts or timing issues for the
necessary access to hardware resources, software interrupts, and the
like.

Well it *wasn't* ascii/ansii anyways. It was a GUI with the pictures
replaced by bitmaps of letters and other characters. I can't see that
being more efficient no matter *how* it's done. Why this difference
couldn't be explained is my only question.

I'll stick to *real* ascii, thanks. The MS port still sucks though. The
running through hallways isn't done *nearly* as well as the *nix port. Try
going down a diagonal hallway sometime: the MS version stops at every bend
and the *nix version just shoots down. Why this is should be so is another
question for bored people I guess.
.

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