Using wizmode on WinXP

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How does one enter wizard mode on a Windows XP installation of
Nethack? The docs say the -D option works if you're the "game
administrator"; what does this entail?

Chris

 

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Chris Maloof wrote:

> How does one enter wizard mode on a Windows XP
> installation of Nethack? The docs say the -D
> option works if you're the "game administrator";
> what does this entail?

I do it with a separate NetHack icon (I copied,
renamed, and changed the properties of the standard
one) named "Wizard Mode" whose "target" field in
it's "properties" display reads:

C:\nethack343\NetHackW.exe -D -uwizard

Since the name of the game administrator on Unix
systems is traditionally "wizard" (I owned that
account on one Unix system, xanth.cs.odu.edu, long,
long ago) the "-uwizard" part suffices to convince
the XP version that you are the "game
administrator".

You also want to be sure the "start in" field of
Properties is the toplevel of your NetHack
installation, in my case

c:\nethack343

Notice that I'm using the "tiles" version, NetHackW.exe;
you may prefer the ASCII one, NetHack.exe, instead.

HTH

xanthian.

By the way, you get to "properties" by right clicking
the icon, it's the bottom menu choice in my installation.

 

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Chris Maloof wrote:
> How does one enter wizard mode on a Windows XP installation of
> Nethack? The docs say the -D option works if you're the "game
> administrator"; what does this entail?
>
> Chris

I usually edit my shortcut and add -u wizard -D to the end of the
command line string.

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Chris Maloof schrieb:
> How does one enter wizard mode on a Windows XP installation of
> Nethack? The docs say the -D option works if you're the "game
> administrator"; what does this entail?

I think that refers to Unix/Linux installations.

Under Windows, open a command console in the game directory and type in
"slashem -D -u wizard". That should give you a game in wizard mode. To
resume it after saving, you can just start slashem as usual (by clicking
on the appropriate icon) and when the game asks you "Who are you?", you
give the name "wizard".

--
Klaus Kassner

 

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On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:14:43 +0100, Klaus Kassner
<Klaus.Kassner@physik.uni-magdeburg.de> wrote:

>
>Under Windows, open a command console in the game directory and type in
>"slashem -D -u wizard". That should give you a game in wizard mode. To
>resume it after saving, you can just start slashem as usual (by clicking
>on the appropriate icon) and when the game asks you "Who are you?", you
>give the name "wizard".

Ah, perfect. I'm putting the command in an icon as Kent suggests
elsewhere, and in fact I wanted to do it for SLASHEM too. Thanks!

Chris

 

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Klaus Kassner wrote:
> Chris Maloof schrieb:

>> How does one enter wizard mode on a Windows XP installation of
>> Nethack? The docs say the -D option works if you're the "game
>> administrator"; what does this entail?

> Under Windows, open a command console in the game directory and type
> in "slashem -D -u wizard". That should give you a game in wizard
> mode.

This won't work. If you follow that procedure, you won't get into a game
of NetHack.

1,$s/slashem/nethack/g (or something like that)

--
Boudewijn Waijers (kroisos at home.nl).

The garden of happiness is surrounded by a wall so low only children
can look over it. - "the Orphanage of Hits", former Dutch radio show.

 

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Boudewijn Waijers schrieb:
> Klaus Kassner wrote:
>
>>Chris Maloof schrieb:
>
>
>>>How does one enter wizard mode on a Windows XP installation of
>>>Nethack? The docs say the -D option works if you're the "game
>>>administrator"; what does this entail?
>
>
>>Under Windows, open a command console in the game directory and type
>>in "slashem -D -u wizard". That should give you a game in wizard
>>mode.
>
>
> This won't work. If you follow that procedure, you won't get into a game
> of NetHack.
>
> 1,$s/slashem/nethack/g (or something like that)
>

Of course, this is the command for slashem, which is currently my game .

One has to replace the command by "nethack", as you quite properly point
out.
--
Klaus Kassner

 

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On 2/21/05 4:27 AM, Boudewijn Waijers wrote:
> Klaus Kassner wrote:
>
>>Under Windows, open a command console in the game directory and type
>>in "slashem -D -u wizard". That should give you a game in wizard
>>mode.
>
> This won't work. If you follow that procedure, you won't get into a game
> of NetHack.
>
> 1,$s/slashem/nethack/g (or something like that)

Anyone capable of understanding what that line meant should have been
able to figure it out for themselves.

--
Kevin Wayne

"I came to Casablanca for the waters."
"Waters? What waters? We're in the desert?"
"I was misinformed."

 

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Klaus Kassner wrote:

> Of course, this is the command for slashem, which is currently my
> game .

Mine as well, actually. I just downloaded Slash'em, and I am playing my
first, random, character (an orcish fire mage). I am wielding Firebane,
and just found out that this one behaves like Stormbringer, when I
accidentally attacked a shopkeeper in Mine Town. I had enough credit
that I was able to pay him off (ZMD 1000), but I stupidly tried to run
away first. While I tried, and when I returned to him to try to pacify
him, he zapped me four times with the wand of draining he was carrying
(back from level 7 to level 3, unfortunately).

Still, I'm not complaining about my first Slash'em character. After all,
I've found both Mine Town as Dungeon Town, and I'm still alive as
well...

--
Boudewijn Waijers (kroisos at home.nl).

The garden of happiness is surrounded by a wall so low only children
can look over it. - "the Orphanage of Hits", former Dutch radio show.

 

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theKapn wrote:
> Chris Maloof wrote:
>
>>How does one enter wizard mode on a Windows XP installation of
>>Nethack? The docs say the -D option works if you're the "game
>>administrator"; what does this entail?
>>
>>Chris
>
>
> I usually edit my shortcut and add -u wizard -D to the end of the
> command line string.
>
> theKapn
>
What is the method for Falcon's Eye on XP, and how does one search for
things using orbs ? A wizard alterego would like to search for
Stormbringer and for a BOH both of which are some where on a level with
many many objects and boulders.

 

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Boudewijn Waijers wrote:
> Still, I'm not complaining about my first Slash'em character. After all,
> I've found both Mine Town as Dungeon Town, and I'm still alive as
> well...
>

My first slash'em character got killed by disgusting molds on dl1 or 2,
I forget which. It was not a pleasant experience!

--LWM