Weekly Edition
Return to the Press page
| |||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||
Slash'EM: The Sum of All NetHacks (O'ReillyNet)
O'ReillyNet takes
a look at the game Slash'EM, a variant of NetHack. "Slash'EM is
written in C, with its Qt windowing interface in C++. Of course, because of
its NetHack lineage, the current release contains lots of code which the
present team did not develop originally. Normally, incorporating code from
outside a project can be a problem due to incompatibilities among various
open source licenses, but things work differently within the NetHack
family. J. Ali Harlow, 36, a programmer for the Applied Vision Research
Centre of City University in London, England and one of the current
maintainers of Slash'EM, says, "There's no such problem with code that has
been written to be used with NetHack. We seek to use the best of these
whenever possible.""
(Log in to post comments)
|
|
||||||||||||