NotEye

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NotEye (Necklace of the Eye) is a frontend for playing roguelikes. It works with ASCII applications which use the system console for the UI (thus, it does not work with roguelikes which are also ASCII, but are implemented with e.g. SDL or libtcod). It provides the following functionality:

  • Just display the roguelike like it would be displayed in DOS. This is especially useful in Windows Vista and newer, since these systems don't even allow viewing console applications in full screen. However, even on older Windows systems, this utility should be useful, because it uses the correct colors, the correct font, and the correct codepage (if a roguelike uses extended IBM characters, like Crawl, it should look better). (There is also an older version of NotEye called cons2tcod, which can do only that, and might be faster on some systems.)
  • However, if you want, you can change the font and colors (theoretically; no fonts other than the DOS font are supplied now with NotEye, but you could try to use fonts from libtcod).
  • Provide a tile display for the roguelike. NotEye needs to be configured to be able to read the game's map output. Currently, quite good configurations exist for Hydra Slayer and Expedition. Quite generic and only partially done configurations for ADOM, DoomRL, Dungeon Crawl, Frozen Depths, and a very generic roguelike configuration (based on the tileset by David Gervais) are included with NotEye.
  • Using the same tiles, it can draw a First Person Perspective display. (DoomRL looks somewhat appropriate in this mode.) FPP is probably not a reasonable way to play a roguelike, but you can try it for fun from time to time.
  • Some other minor features are also available. If you want to play a roguelike using the rogue keyset (yubnhjkl), but you are not accustomed to that layout, NotEye can simulate it with the numpad. It is also possible to create HTML and PhpBB-coded screenshots.

NotEye is developed by Z and currently only available for Windows.

Link to NotEye: [1]