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  1.             Amiga-specific help file for NetHack 3.2
  2.  
  3. The Amiga port of NetHack supports a number of additional commands
  4. and facilities specific to the Amiga.  Listed below are the things
  5. which are either specific to the Amiga port or might not appear
  6. in other ports.
  7.  
  8. While playing NetHack you can press:
  9.  
  10.         ALT-HELP                Color requestor.
  11.         CTL-HELP                Scale display (amitile only).
  12.         SHIFT-HELP              Overview window (amitile only).
  13.  
  14. Separate Icon types for saved games:
  15.                                 Each character class can have a
  16.                                 separate icon.  The first letter
  17.                                 of the character class is used
  18.                                 to derive the name.  e.g. a
  19.                                 Wizard saved game would use
  20.                                 NetHack:w.icon if it is present.
  21.                                 The NetHack:default.icon is used
  22.                                 if the associated character class
  23.                                 icon is not present.
  24.  
  25. Amiga-specific run-time options:
  26.         altmeta                 use the alt keys as meta keys
  27.         fast_map                fast screen update algorithm
  28.         flush                   throw away keyboard type-ahead
  29.  
  30. Recognized ToolTypes entries include the following:
  31.  
  32.         NAME=                   Character name.
  33.         SCORES                  Scores for all players.
  34.         SCORE=                  Scores for specified players.
  35.         CHARACTER=              Class of player (e.g. Rogue).
  36.         PENS=xxx,xxx,...        8 pen settings for game palette.
  37.         FONT=name.font:size     Set the text font for text info.
  38.                                 "courier.font:13" is the default.
  39.         PATH=                   PATH for locating files.
  40.         OPTIONS=                Comma separated list of options.
  41.                 windowtype=amii        Traditional NetHack display
  42.                 windowtype=amitile     NetHack with graphics
  43.                 windowtype=tty         TTY mode for BBS use
  44.         HACKDIR=                Directory to play game in.
  45.         LEVELS=                 Where to store/create per level
  46.                                 data files.
  47.         SAVE=                   Where to save games.
  48.         SCREEN=LACE|NOLACE      Whether or not to play on
  49.                                 an interlaced screen.
  50.         CMDLINE=                CLI command line options
  51.                                 can be specified here.
  52.  
  53. Command line options recognized are
  54.  
  55.         -n                      No News at game startup.
  56.         -X                      Play in discovery mode.
  57.         -D                      Play in debug mode.
  58.         -L                      Interlaced screen.
  59.         -l                      Never Interlaced screen.
  60.         -u                      Play as player given as
  61.                                 an argument.
  62.         -?                      Gives command line usage.
  63.  
  64.