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I'm not sure what forum to put this in...I'll try this one.

OK so I'm playing DF on a computer that has an old and smallish monitor on it (1024 x 768 is the biggest resolution I can get)

In old versions - prior to the addition of expandable viewscreen - I would open up DF (I'm using 16x16 Dystopian Rhetoric tiles here), and the game window would not be big enough to contain all the contents it was supposed to - all the text on the opening screen was cut off, and so was the in-game screen. However all I had to do was minimize the window and then bring it up again, and everything would sort of adjust itself like magic to fit onto my screen.

However, now in versions with the expandable view, this causes problems. The game initially looks like it initially did before - everything's cut off. However, if I minimize, then maximize again, it looks the same - but then as soon as I move the selection down the menu (from "Create World Now" to "Worldgen with parameters") everything goes screwy - I get about half the screen displaying the new "adjusted" look and the other half still displaying the old cut-off one. This persists no matter what.

I can hardly imagine I'm the only one playing on an old clunker of a monitor like this - anyone else encountered it? I fiddled around with the init file and tried tweaking just about everything but no luck.

Any suggestions?

It makes sense that dwarves, being subteranean creatures, should have good infravision I suppose - but it's impossible to see with no light whatsoever. I'm pretty much on the fence about whether lighting would be another interesting game feature or just a pain in the butt.

Actually..I'm leaning toward "interesting feature." If goblins manage to infiltrate your fort somehow, you could extinguish all the lights and then rush them in the dark!

As far as fire...is there any plan for implementing lighting systems, or can dwarves just see in absolute darkness?

I think NOT working is punishment considering that if they weren't in prison, they'd be slaving away anyhow.

If dwarves love work, you punish them by making them idle around.

Tht's how I see it anyhow ... being idle should be an unhappy thought.

Agreed

I don't now how hard/easy to mod that would be.

This shouldn't really be that hard

The grammar the appears in the game is no more complex than simple compounding of words, and "x the y of z"

it wouldn't require too many function words really. And plurals...well you could go the easy route and just stick an extra phoneme on the back of every word to pluralize it (that way you could just mass-code it for every word) or you could really get into it and have some unusual style of pluralizing like in Arabic....Urist -> Risit  Bomrek -> Ubmork  and so on, just to pull a few things out of my but

Really you'd just need a genitive construction for "the x of y", some definite articles for languages that had them, and a coherent and distinct way to compound words - for each language. There's only what, 5 languages? Couldn't be that hard.

Except instead of killing each other they just lay around and poop and starve to death....if babies even eat.