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NetHack 5.0.0: Release Notes (nethack.org)
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[–] 24 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Nethack is still getting updates?! :O

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    The devteam were silent for like a decade, then woke up and started making updates in 2015.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    There was actually a lot of development going on outside the official DevTeam, by people such as paxed (host of NAO). When development officially resumed, there were a ton of patches from paxed and other community members that got incorporated, so it really culminated in the addition of a lot of development work that had continued all along.

    Now paxed and a few of these other community members are officially part of the DevTeam.

    Edit: oops! Fixed the NAO link!

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    • [–] 18 points 6 months ago

    Browsing around nethack.org I found this link if anyone's in need of an introduction to nethack: https://web.archive.org/web/20210212161326/http://www.linuxvoice.com/nethack/

    The comments are full of people sharing their yasd stories.

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    [–] 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    C99 compliant!!

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah, I'm guessing, it's a major release in the semantic version sense, not necessarily content-wise, but that still caught me offguard. The big news is that they write their code different now. 🙃

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Oh it’s a HUGE release, content-wise. They have changed a ton of things in this one. They just don’t mention content changes in the fix logs, for spoiler reasons!

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    • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    I can't figure out how to install this on Arch Linux, wtf

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Still stuck? I was going to wait for it to show up in the repos, but it hasn’t so far. So here’s how I did it (for my regular user account, not system-wide):

    git clone https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack
cd NetHack
sys/unix/setup.sh sys/unix/hints/linux.500

    Now you’ve got a Makefile in the top-level NetHack as well as the src subdirectory. Find the else #!WANT_SOURCE_INSTALL block in both and edit HACKDIR to set the directory for the game itself and SHELLDIR to set the directory for the launcher script.

    (And if I actually knew how to use make, I’d probably have a less clunky method than this. Anyone?)

    make fetch-Lua
make all
make install
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    • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Tbh, it’s fun just to see the crazy ways you end up dying… so many things can happen to your character

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    [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Man, I played version 0.something back in the early 1990s, on a DEC VAX minicomputer. Good times.

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    [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Looks like I need to boot up my laptop and open a telnet session.

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