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Re:Dwarf Fortress: An actual look at graphical improvements by jtolmar on Thursday March 26, 2020 @04:26PM (#22697616)
> Also, this is a detailed simulation, so things move a lot faster if you're not spending CPU on graphics.

Pretty amusingly, DF used to spend most of its CPU on graphics. There was a graphics rewrite at some point that fixed it.

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Re:Dwarf Fortress: An actual look at graphical improvements by bmn__ on Thursday March 26, 2020 @05:56PM (#22698392)
https://github.com/Baughn/Dwarf-Fortress--libgraphics-

This was not written by the game's author, ToadyOne, but someone else. ToadyOne complains that he cannot understand the code anymore. For this reason, he will not open the source code again until he is dead.

https://www.pcgamesn.com/dwarf-fortress/dwarf-fortress-sourc...

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Re:Dwarf Fortress: An actual look at graphical improvements by Talanes on Thursday March 26, 2020 @07:39PM (#22699138)
Your article only talks about the arrangement for donating the source code to MoMa after he dies, nothing about him not understanding or opening it.
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