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+ MSDOS specific help file for NetHack 3.3.0
+ (Last Revision: December 4, 1999)
+
+Copyright (c) NetHack PC Development Team 1993-1999.
+NetHack may be freely distributed. See license for details.
+
+New players should be sure to read GuideBoo.txt which contains essential
+information about playing NetHack. It can be found in the same
+directory as your NetHack executable.
+
+The MSDOS port of NetHack supports some additional or enhanced commands
+as well as some defaults.nh file options specific to configuration choices
+used during the building of PC NetHack. Listed below are those commands
+and defaults.nh file options.
+
+Recognized MSDOS specific defaults.nh entries are outlined below.
+
+Boolean Options:
+
+ IBMgraphics Use IBM extended characters for the dungeon
+ Default: [FALSE]
+ BIOS Allow the use of IBM ROM BIOS calls
+ Default: [FALSE]
+ rawio Allow the use of raw I/O (may only be set
+ on startup)
+ Default: [FALSE]
+ preload_tiles Preload tiles into RAM at start of game.
+ Faster, but uses more memory.
+ Default: [TRUE]
+
+Color Options:
+
+OPTIONS=!color
+
+ Players will need this if they have a real, true, (old)
+ monochrome adapter, and they are seeing underlined,
+ and flashing, and reverse-video characters on the
+ screen. Or they find that some things are missing from
+ the display. This means that the auto-detection
+ for monochromes has failed. The color support
+ stuff is active in video.c, but may be (will have
+ to be) overridden by adding an OPTIONS=nocolor to
+ defaults.nh.
+
+OPTIONS=VIDEO
+ (defaults.nh only)
+
+ ie: OPTIONS=video:autodetect
+
+ Possible values are: AUTODETECT, DEFAULT, VGA
+
+ AUTODETECT Checks for a supported hi-res video
+ adaptor, and if it detects one, NetHack
+ will run in "TILE MODE."
+
+ DEFAULT NetHack will run in TTY mode. This is
+ the same as not specifying OPTIONS=VIDEO
+ at all.
+
+ VGA Forces use of VGA specific video routines.
+ Any forcing of specific video routines has
+ potential to cause machine lock-ups if
+ the specified video hardware is not present.
+
+OPTIONS=VIDEOSHADES
+ (defaults.nh only)
+ Players may wish to add this option because one of their
+ shades of gray is difficult to read on their video
+ display hardware. Allows a level of intensity to be
+ assigned to the 3 possible shades of gray in NetHack,
+ those being BLACK, GRAY, WHITE. To each of those
+ shades, the player may assign a DARK, NORMAL, or LIGHT value.
+ Here is the default if not specified:
+
+ ie. OPTIONS=VIDEOSHADES:dark-normal-light
+
+ Anytime the same intensity value (DARK NORMAL LIGHT) is used
+ for more than one shade of gray, it will not be possible
+ to visually distinguish those two shades from each
+ other.
+
+ ie. OPTIONS=VIDEOSHADES:normal-normal-light
+
+ This, while eliminating the dark shade normally used for
+ displaying black items, means that the player won't be
+ able to distinguish black items and creatures from gray
+ items and creatures visually.
+
+ Note also that the controversial gray schema used in
+ pl 3.1.2 as the default, corresponded to:
+
+ OPTIONS=VIDEOSHADES:normal-dark-normal
+
+ This is NOT the default in pl 3.1.3 and above, so many people
+ will probably not even need to use this option, and will find
+ the default just fine. The maps are built using gray,
+ and in pl 3.1.3, that is mapped to normal by default. In
+ 3.1.2, it was mapped to dark (as above).
+
+OPTIONS=VIDEOCOLORS
+ (defaults.nh only)
+ This option is only provided because some people on
+ r.g.r.n mentioned how they liked to modify the color
+ values from the default ANSI.SYS behaviour, and were
+ "upset" to find out that they could no longer do so
+ under 3.1.2. The color map is as accurate as possible
+ on standard PC video hardware as it stands, and any
+ deviation from the default, will mean that people
+ are mapping blue to green for example. The option is
+ available to provide as much flexibility as possible,
+ but it is not encouraged to be used.
+
+ One possible use might be for the dark blue in
+ fountains. On video hardware that has trouble
+ displaying blacks, there may also be problems displaying
+ the darker blue used in fountains. If that is the case
+ then the default map:
+
+ OPTIONS=VIDEOCOLORS:4-2-6-1-5-3-12-10-14-9-13-11
+
+ could be changed to the following to map blue to br.
+ blue:
+
+ OPTIONS=VIDEOCOLORS:4-2-6-9-5-3-12-10-14-9-13-11
+
+ The mapping order for the options:
+
+ red, green, brown, blue, magenta, cyan
+ br.red, br.green, yellow, br.blue,
+ br.magenta, br.cyan
+
+ The PC hardware uses the following values:
+
+ red(4), green(2), brown(6), blue(1), magenta(5),
+ cyan(3), bright red(12), bright green(10), yellow(14),
+ bright blue(9), bright magenta(13), bright cyan(11),
+ normal white(7), bright white(15).
+
+
+The following options are NOT currently recognized under the MSDOS
+port of PC NetHack:
+
+ LEVELS= Where to store/create per level
+ data files.
+ SAVE= Where to save games.
+ BONES= Where to store bones files.
+
+
+MSDOS Additional/Enhanced Commands:
+
+If you have opted to use the "graphical" or "tiled" option, (usually set via
+OPTIONS=VIDEO:AUTODETECT ((see above)), then the following function keys are
+active:
+
+F3 cycle through the current position indicator, or halo. Usually this
+ halo highlights the player's tile, unless the game is asking you for
+ an answer to a question that requires positional information, (ie,
+ the discover command).
+F4 toggle level overview mode on/off
+F5 toggle tiled display on/off. (Switches between tiled and traditional
+ ASCII display.)
+
+While playing NetHack under MSDOS you can press the ALT key in combination
+with another key to execute an extended command as an alternative method
+to pressing a # key sequence:
+
+Alt-2 twoweapon - toggle two-weapon combat
+Alt-a adjust - adjust inventory letters.
+Alt-c chat - talk to someone or something.
+Alt-d dip - dip an object into something.
+Alt-e enhance - enhance your skill with a weapon.
+Alt-f force - force a lock.
+Alt-i invoke - invoke an object's powers.
+Alt-j jump - jump to a location.
+Alt-l loot - loot a box on the floor.
+Alt-m monster - use a monster's special ability.
+Alt-n name - name an item or type of object.
+Alt-o offer - offer a sacrifice to the gods.
+Alt-p pray - pray to the gods for help.
+Alt-q quit - quit the game. (Same as #quit)
+Alt-r rub - rub a lamp.
+Alt-s sit - sit down.
+Alt-t turn - turn undead.
+Alt-u untrap - untrap something.
+Alt-v version - list compile time options for this version of NetHack.
+Alt-w wipe - wipe off your face.
+
+If you are playing on NEC PC-9800, use the GRPH key instead of the ALT key.
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