i think non nicehash algos make more money
You're right, but as I didn't want to touch xevan kernel, for example, I still don't want to mess with paddings.
krnlx made a great job on this one, but wasn't even paid his bounties, I've just helped him debugging Win version (if you've followed his thread while all the mess was going on).
Do I understand correctly that Krnlx was not paid the Xevan miner bounty from either Bitsend or Solaris?
Also is the process for mining Neoscrypt to first initialize the miner via command line and then to run a .bat file afterwards?
Yes, maybe someone'd claimed the bounty first, hope it was not _sp who stole
krnlx's work. But as far as I'm informed nobody gave bounty to the dev who really deserves it.
Regarding second question, no, you need to run simple batfile as everyone's used to.