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Re:Nethack - Best Game Ever (2000) by plinkplonk on Sunday May 10, 2009 @09:36PM (#602795)
Dwarf Fortress doesn't seem to work on Linux. Which is strange, since the GUI is ASCII. It is not open source, so I can't jump in and fix this either. All that said, it looks like a cool game.
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Re:Nethack - Best Game Ever (2000) by Deestan on Monday May 11, 2009 @08:18AM (#603348)
It isn't just plain ASCII; DF actually uses OpenGL (!) to render ASCII characters.
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Re:Nethack - Best Game Ever (2000) by swolchok on Sunday May 10, 2009 @09:44PM (#602806)
I believe it runs under WINE.
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Re:Nethack - Best Game Ever (2000) by mjgoins on Sunday May 10, 2009 @10:26PM (#602842)
Yes, it runs under wine, but in my experience you have to turn off sound.
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Re:Nethack - Best Game Ever (2000) by tom_rath on Sunday May 10, 2009 @10:34PM (#602850)
That makes it easy: There is no in-game sound.

If you would like the DF music to play in the background, just fire up the game's mp3 (under /data/sound) on your player and you're off.

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Re:Nethack - Best Game Ever (2000) by Deestan on Monday May 11, 2009 @08:19AM (#603349)
To be honest, I turn off the sound anyway. That one single tune on repeat gets slightly annoying after a couple of hours.
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