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• Mac:
• Fonts
Nyx says to use this font in order to use IBMgraphics on a mac. Nyx also says "and inexplicably it sucks in terminal so I use iterm."
• More from Valentino:

1) Install iterm.
2) Open iterm, connect to bfb.
3) Hit Apple-I (or View -> Show Session Info).
4) On "Session" tab, set Encoding to "Latin-US (DOS)".
5) On "Session" tab, uncheck the checkbox next to "Bold".
6) On "Window" tab, select your font (presumably fixed-width, Nyx's nethack font works).

I like "AndaleMono" as the font.

Using standard Mac OS X Terminal:
Under Terminal->Preferences, under the "Settings" tab,
Under the "Text" subtab, uncheck "Antialias text", "Use bold fonts", "Allow blinking text", and make sure to check "Display ANSI colors" and "Use bright colors for bold text".
Under the "Advanced" subtab, change "Character encoding:" to "Latin-US (DOS)".

• X11:
• Fonts
All I ever use anymore is what my Debian GNU/Linux system calls vga which is actually -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-ibm-cp437 which is part of the xfonts-terminus-dos Debian package.
The Terminus font home is here.
Use the IBMgraphics nethack option with this font.
I also use rxvt because gnome-terminal doesn't cut it. Here are relevant entries from my .Xresources file:


rxvt*color0: black
rxvt*color1: Red
rxvt*color2: green4
rxvt*color3: orange3
rxvt*color4: DodgerBlue3
rxvt*color7: gray
rxvt*color8: DimGray
rxvt*color9: IndianRed1
rxvt*color12: CornflowerBlue
rxvt*color13: MediumOrchid
rxvt*background: black
rxvt*foreground: gray
rxvt*saveLines: 2048
rxvt*geometry: 124x45
rxvt*scrollBar: false
rxvt*font: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal-*-*-160-*-*-c-*-ibm-cp437
    

Throw those in there, xrdb -merge .Xresources, and try rxvt -geometry 124x45

• Windows:
• Fonts
• I converted my favorite nethack fonts for X11 to .FON fonts for Windows. Use the IBMgraphics nethack option with these fonts:
  Smallish (12pt): Terminus 16 normal
  Nice and big (18pt): Terminus 24 bold (font itself is bold; tell Windows "Regular")
• Classic VGA
• Larger VGA11x19 (but zero has no slash or dot)
• PuTTY
• Terminal -> Keyboard: I use Normal for both cursor and numeric keypad. I use the number_pad option in nethack, and NumLock is On.
• I suggest a Block Cursor (Window -> Appearance), with Cursor Color (Window -> Colours) set to 192 192 192. Green cursors annoy me.
• Or just browse the fonts I have here