box64 Frozen Depth roguelike not working

Frozen Depth roguelike game didn't start. Both ncurses and ncursesw versions. I don't remember the exact error message, but something about the terminal not having enough rows and columns for the game to run.

I ran it on my Pi3, which is now dusting on the shelf. If it's really needed, I can boot it up and post the full error log, but I think downloading FrozenDepth and checking it out is much faster.

Oct 15 '24 23:10 rumly111

That doesnèt sound like a box issue, but more like n application isue: it wants a bigger terminal. Enlarge the terminal window?

Oct 16 '24 06:10 ptitSeb

nope, the terminal was big enough

Oct 16 '24 06:10 rumly111

Ah, ok. I'll try to check later.

Oct 16 '24 06:10 ptitSeb

Yeah, looks like the wrapping of ncurses is lacking. It might work better with an emulated ncurses. I'll add the issue to my TODO...

Oct 16 '24 09:10 ptitSeb

thank you!

Oct 16 '24 09:10 rumly111

@rumly111 Can you try to:

First create a bundle of x86 libs (I just added ncurses library files).
Then run you program again with BOX64_EMULATED_LIBS=libncurses.so:libncurses.so.6:libncursesw.so:libncursesw.so.6 (set either via an environment variable or RC file).
- https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64/blob/v0.3.6/docs/USAGE.md#box64_emulated_libs

That'll use emulation instead of wrapping which might work better in this case.

Jul 19 '25 19:07 LukeShortCloud