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NetHack

Page history last edited by Kernigh 6 mos ago

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DYWYPI? signals the end of yet another game of the popular RogueLike game called NetHack. More likely than not, the player came to a quick death and never came near the Amulet of Yendor. NetHack is fun because each new game features a new randomly generated dungeon, and the game requires so much skill to play.

Home page: http://www.nethack.org
License: Free software, NetHack General Public License
Play online! Select a public server
Usenet: rec.games.roguelike.nethack through Google or through Oook
Wiki: Wikihack
Kernigh: Wiki page and NAO player info

Kernigh has campaigned for the Amulet at NAO but never achieved ascension to win the game. A part of the story so far appears at the page of Kernigh at Wikihack; look there for the accounts of my best games.

Platforms

NetHack exists for many platforms (not only Linux and Windows) and has many user interfaces.

Support for Unix (including GNU/Linux and the BSDs) uses the oldest operating-system-specific code in NetHack. The code distinguishes SYSV versus BSD. The support for BSD flavors of Unix is for versions before the 4.4BSD release of 1995. In fact, 4.4BSD is more like SYSV than BSD when compiling NetHack from source code. FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD have long been variants of 4.4BSD.

Kernigh studied the creation of a Unix Reform Patch for NetHack, but deleted an attempt to make the patch. The patch does not exist, but it might remove the distinction of SYSV versus BSD, use newer sources of random numbers such as arc4random, or provide a curses user interface instead of the existing termcap interface.

Variants

Kernigh's Personal Wiki has pages about these variants of NetHack:

From Wikihack

Wikihack is an entire wiki about NetHack; it has spoilers, annotated source code, an account of the game history, and many other features. Come into Wikihack and meet other wiki editors interested in NetHack!