Re: hey listen to this!!!!!

["James R. Dunson" <jdunson at vt dot edu>]

At 10:17 PM 7/6/00 -0700, Stan Shebs wrote:
>Upgrade your machine to Linux! :-)  But seriously, we don't yet
>have a final release version of 7.3 built for Windows.  

  How to put this carefully... There are machines that I use, or 
even manage, that I may run Xconq on, that I have no choice of
OS due to other factors, and are running Windows.  Still other
machines may run Windows due to the need to run specific apps 
already purchased for Windows and that do not have available 
free/cheap Linux equivalents.  

  I've been thinking some lately about where to go with the modified 
discover.g I've been working with, but have put off any more work until 
I have a final release version to work with; it's difficult enough to 
figure out what does and doesn't work at any time to fight through 
it over and over again.  (I'm optimistically assuming that anything
that works in a final release version will not stop working, at least 
for a while.)  

  One of the things I have wondered is whether it is possible to 
compile Xconq with the free Borland C++ compiler.  The availability
of easy and free DOS compiles of Angband and assorted related 
roguelikes via DJGPP has been very helpful in terms of increasing 
interest and available effort (more eyeballs, bigger bazaar, or 
whatever metaphor you prefer).  

If a procedure and/or makefile could be developed for free Borland C++, 
it would greatly increase the amount of contribution that would be 
practical for those of us who spend much of our days stuck in a Windows 
world.  

** James **
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James R. Dunson (jdunson@vt.edu)
Network Administrator, Center for Wireless Telecommunications
436 Whittemore Hall, Virginia Tech     http://www.cwt.vt.edu/