First post, by r_wolfcastle
First of all, thank you for a great piece of software! I have been running larn123 on my Mac via Virtual PC and freedos, and not only does that mean I have to deal with That Redmond Company, it also ate my machine alive.
Once I grokked the gestalt, I was able to get larn123 up and running effortlessly under DOSBOX .70. I haven't played much, but so far I've only run into one major irritation and one very minor one. To wit:
larn123 has a status line that tells you what you just picked up, which monster just hit you, etc. What it is not doing under DOSBOX is clearing that status line before writing a new message. So if I see "you have found the entrance to the dungeon", and the next message is "the bat hits you", what I see is "the bad hits youe entrance to the dungeon". I wonder if this is due to DOSBOX supporting ANSI.SYS but not NANSI.SYS?
The minor irritation is that when I save a game and then restore it to play some more, it says the save file has been altered, and I won't be put on the scoreboard. Like I care. 😎