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Links, some of which are project-related.

Things needed to compile

Curses

Many Unices (I speak from an educated guess) have some form of curses-compatible library installed. (Netrun is currently being devloped with ncurses version 4.) However, if you don't have such libraries and don't know where to get them, here's some links.

I'm making a potentially deadly assumption that ncurses is another software package done by the GNU folks. (Is the Nethack Dev Team really a part of the GNU organisation? ) Anyway, what looks like the front page for ncurses is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ncurses.html.

If anyone's trying to port to DOS, PDCurses is a curses implementation known to be used under the said operating environment. It's current maintainer, to my knowledge appears to be a Mark Hessling - a web page for PDCurses is at http://www.lightlink.com/hessling/PDCurses/.

Please note that, after looking at the ncurses website (ncurses 5! Ooh!), it seems that the ncurses API may have changed. I hereby note that Netrun is presently being developed with ncurses-4, and it will be quite some time (probably the release of stable Debian potato) until this changes, unless someone else starts developing too. :)

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Other tools

Again, most Unices have the other tools needed to compile Netrun. Thanks to my use of Linux, I tend to use the GNU tools (http://www.gnu.org). Unfortunately, the configure script needs GNU m4 - anyone smell a conspiracy? ;)

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The genre

Some pointers on the genre. I'm not making very many links.

As I understand things, the cyberpunk genre has existed since the 1980's - it's first writer was one William Gibson. Smog-choked streets, crime-ridden megacities, a dying ecology, the elegance and steel of corporation life, and the 'Net, the sum total of human knowledge with it's electric knights and d(a)emons.

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Games

Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0 is a cyberpunk role-playing game by R. Talsorian Games (http://www.talsorian.com/). It sports quite an impressive range - a good quality base volume, about thirty or or forty other books the last time I checked, and a bit-further-forward spin-off called Cybergeneration.

Netrunner (no relation to this game) is a trading-card game owned by Wizards of the Coast, and to my knowledge is the only other game under the Deckmaster label. (Whatever that was meant to be.) (http://www.wizards.com/netrunner)

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Books and Shows

William Gibson, the Matrix, can anyone contribute to this sentence until it becomes a paragraph? :)

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