[…] to use this, and it’s difficult to set up. You best follow some sophisticated tutorial like this one. I just want to give a few tips: Use dgamelaunch 1.5.x, it’s better than 1.4.x If you try to […]

Luke, I happened across your blog here all by accident. It’s a small web I guess! You’re linked from this dgamelaunch wiki page. I was looking into how dgamelaunch worked because I wanted to expose my ncurses flappy bird clone as a telnet game. For the moment you can try it out here:


telnet flappy.nullprogram.com


Old article I know, but does anyone have instructions for setting up other roguelikes. I’d love to get Crawl, or even an older version of the original Rogue running all on the same server. I’m not a Linux expert, but I setup a Debian7 machine via paxed guide, was easy, just can’t get Crawl to compile with the needed information to incorporate it into DGL. android8675 at shodan dot synchro dot net.

I’ve written some install docs for the dgamelaunch devel version: http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/User:Paxed/HowTo_setup_dgamelaunch

@ Dan Salvato:

I forgot to mention this. As a final step, type in:
sudo mv /usr/local/sbin/dgamelaunch /usr/sbin/dgamelaunch
If it gives you an error, don’t worry about it.

I hope someone reads this, because I’d have really needed it.

Ubuntulite (now U-lite) gave me all kinds of problems, so I just used regular Ubuntu. Here’s what I did differently from this tutorial:

1. Use dgamelaunch-1.4.6, even though it’s not the newest version. You’ll get an error when running dgl-create-chroot, as mentioned. However, instead of using that manual workaround, grab the dgl-create-chroot from dgamelaunch-1.4.7.

2. You have to modify dgamelaunch.conf and comment out these two lines:
shed_user = “games”
shed_group = “games”

3. The terminfo copying step is unnecessary. dgamelaunch does copy them, but in a different directory.

4. For adding the telnet line to /etc/inetd.conf, use the second one provided. Also, if you receive a “no process” error when trying to killall, just ignore that step and instead type:
sudo inetd /etc/inetd.conf

Hope this helps someone.

[…] up a nethack server, and i don’t remember it being as painful as it was this time. i thank this blogger for guidance. it was enough to make me go postal. damn thing kept dying and wouldn’t tell me […]

@Wolf: Nice! I’m glad to hear you have figured it out. I didn’t think to check whether or not a port is blocked. Good call!

Well after several days of agonizing torture with this problem and soon before i almost gave up entirely i am happy to report i have solved this issue!

So as it would seem that port 23 on my machine was getting a “stealth” option meaning that all packets recieved to this port would be droped and i could not find what was causing this to open that port, so as an alternative i nano /etc/services and changed telnet to port 7777 and now it will connect :)

so anyone who is having a similar problem i suggest giving this solution a try as it may not be anythign but a simple firewall or some sort of internet security in your router (ie SPI) stopping you from getting those connections.

happy hacking! ;)

well as a follow up i seem to be getting a lot closer and it seems all of my problems are rooting from dgamelaunch, it just wasnt copying files over even the “dgamelaunch” wasnt even in sbin
I have gotten a connection via local host now but as soon as i press play same error all over again, and i still cant get connection outside localhost even with tweaking the hosts.allow file to allow all telnet connection and even all connections ill keep working at this and if i actualy find a solution ill post but im slowly starting to lean towards looking for an alternative to dgamelaunch :P