Stuart Hacking

Here are a couple of Project templates I made for XCode 3.2. One for a WxWidgets based project (wxMac 2.8), and one for a GLUT project. Hope they work.

• GLUT C++ Project – Initializes GLUT and creates a scene containing a cube which can be rotated using the keyboard arrow keys. toggle an axis widget using ‘w’, toggle fullscreen using ‘o’ and exit using ESC. The FPS is displayed in the titlebar.
• WxWidgets C++ Project – Initializes a WxWidgets based app with an empty frame.

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O.K. So, this is kind of a followup to a previous post I did about how I like to setup Nethack on my Mac. However, more recently, some of the patches I had used stopped working on later versions of Mac OS (10.5 and 10.6). So I spent a bit of time looking into this today and I got some positive results. (update: I think the problem I had with Menucolor compiling was that it didn’t like the regexp method – I changed this to simply use the wildcard matching.)

Nethack with Status Colors and Menu Colors

Unfortunately, because the two patches I’m applying have resulting conflicts- it meant manually applying the patches to the source code in some cases (also: I’m lazy). I, therefore, don’t have an elegant method of actually applying the two patches that I can pass on. What I am doing instead is providing two things: The complete refined archive of the patched Nethack source which should be ready-to-compile on OS 10.6; And also the .diff file produced from a vanilla copy of the source and my own patched version. I will also provide my new updated nethackrc file. (ok… 3 things )

Here’s some details about the setup this provides:

1. The Status Colors patch is applied. This is a configurable patch allowing you to color code status effects – hunger, blindness, HP, Gold, AC, etc. It’s very, very cool!
2. Menucolors patch applied. This is a configurable patch that let’s you apply colors to popup menus. e.g. inventory items can be red for cursed, green for blessed, etc. Again, this patch is very neat!
3. The initial configuration for getting Nethack to build on mac has been taken care of.

So Here are the links to get everything up and running. I should say at this point that this stuff works on my machine and YMMV. If something is broken and you want my to take a look at it just leave a comment of send an email – I’ll try to fix it if I have time. You may also want to dig through the changes in the patch.

1. nethack-3.4.3-patched.zip
2. nh343-_menustatus_orig.diff
3. .nethackrc

I hope this is useful for someone who wants a nice shiny setup of Nethack on Snow Leopard.

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