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[Dehydration]

I've only been playing for a day or so, but I was having so much fun figuring out the complexities of the game that I dragged an Internet friend bodily into Dwarf Fortress with me. The problem we discovered is that, like a fair number of laptop users, she doesn't have access to the +/- keys on the num-pad. Given what a necessity those keys are to play the game, she's unfortunately unable to partake.

There are a lot of menus in the game that have keyboard shortcuts for greater convenience, and that's a major help where it does exist, but as it stands there's no way I could figure out to allow someone who doesn't have the +/- numpad keys to play. Any suggestions?

[Toady One]

Did you try pressing ESC and then going to key bindings?  The /* key is the secondary scrolling page up, page down key.  It should be fairly high up in that menu.  You can rebind it to whatever you like, and then save those settings from that screen.  Let us know if this works, and we might be able to help further if not and you keep prodding.

[Dehydration]

That looks like it should work, heh, thanks. I must have read a help file instead of looking at the actual keybinds menu. How odd.

Thanks for the quick response. With your forum presence, how do you have time to actually do anything with the game?

[Toady One]

I don't have much actually, but I think the forum is important now.  I'm gathering a lot of useful information for stability, user-friendliness, enhancement.  I guess there's probably a social side to it too, but I've been like working on this in a room for years like One of these, so I wouldn't be able to tell.

[JT]

In spite of the genre, I would have to say that your work of art is much better than "Attempted Birdhouse" by H.J. Simpson.  *sips a de-alcoholised martini and adjusts his beret*

[Toady One]

Motivated by a dream, he spent 33 years constructing the Palais Ideal. Half organic building, half massive sculpture, it was constructed from stones collected on his postal round, held together with chicken wire, cement, and lime.

[JT]

Look at the picture, though:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Facteur_Cheval_-_Fa%C3%A7ade_Est.jpg

Off topic, sorry.

(For those that don't speak French, the top sign says, "Made by a single man", and the bottom sign says, loosely translated, "Don't touch".)

[ August 14, 2006: Message edited by: JT ]

[Toady One]

Yeah, I really like it.  In 33 years, I too...

[Gezol]

Man, I never expected to see a discussion of outsider art on this forum. Louis Wain(post-schizophrenia, anyway) and Adolf Wölfli are my favorites in that field. And I'd never heard of the Palais Ideal before, but I'm very impressed.

Um, making this on-topic... you could probably have dwarven outsider art. If the varieties of dwarven insanity get diversified in the future, one possible manifestation might be obsessively crafting things, which would be... different in various ways. It actually seems like something that would be in-character for dwarves. Though it sounds like possession creates a similar effect already...

[Toady One]

Does reading the forums help you wait?  It's still a few more days until you get your copy.

[Gezol]

It actually is kind of helping me wait. Hearing about the various nasty bugs in the first release made me feel a bit better about not downloading it right then and there. I imagine there'll still be some left on the 16th, but it shouldn't be anything as bad as that civil war bug, hopefully...

[Toady One]

I guess the testimonials of 300MHz people actually playing the game are encouraging too.  But...  I wonder if you'll like it.  It's ASCII, after all.

[Dehydration]

quote:Originally posted by JT:
<STRONG>Look at the picture, though:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Facteur_Cheval_-_Fa%C3%A7ade_Est.jpg

[ August 14, 2006: Message edited by: JT ]</STRONG>

That is the single most amazing thing I have seen any one person do in many years. On the down side, since he was working alone with those materials, there's not much point in asking if he had time to do any other work on the side, heh.  

[Toady One]

If you like it, you should hunt around for some close-ups of various parts.  It really is inspiring.

[Fourth Triad]

That is amazing, looks kickass too.