Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax!ersmith
From: ersmith@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: NetHack (was Re: Games and Demos are not the same)
Keywords: NetHack 3.0 patchlevel 8 FTP
Message-ID: <6331.26894fcb@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 28 Jun 90 04:31:06 GMT
References: <1644@mwca.UUCP> <1990Jun26.133606.4586@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <187@hexagon.pkmab.se> <1990Jun27.201016.27871@wam.umd.edu>
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In article <1990Jun27.201016.27871@wam.umd.edu>, dmb@wam.umd.edu (David M. Baggett) writes:
> Yes, NetHack is truly a great game.  I've probably spent more hours
> playing NetHack than any other ST game.  (The latest port is great!)
> 
Thanks! I'm glad people are enjoying the game.

Incidentally, for people who missed the announcement on rec.games.hack
a while ago, the binaries of NetHack 3.0.8 for the ST are available via
anonymous FTP from terminator.cc.umich.edu, linc.cis.upenn.edu, and
dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu. (I'm not sure if the atari@terminator mail server
is working yet, but if/when it is people will be able to retrieve them
by mail from there). There are two files, nh308bin.zoo and nh308sup.zoo,
containing the binaries and support files respectively.

Also, these binaries report themselves as being patchlevel 8, but they
really should be called "patchlevel 8+", since a few minor post-
patchlevel 8 bugs have been fixed. (There will likely be a "patchlevel 9"
posted for the sources, which will incorporate these fixes).

The source code for NetHack is available from uunet.uu.net, and I think
it will also be reposted in its entirety on comp.sources.games sometime
in the near future.

NetHack is a real memory pig, unfortunately. It requires a 1 meg machine
and a double-sided drive to play. Compiling the source code with the
gcc takes 2 megabytes of memory (absolute bare minimum, believe me!)
and a hard disk, and is recommended only for masochists :-).
--
Eric R. Smith                     email:
Dept. of Mathematics            ERSMITH@uwovax.uwo.ca
University of Western Ontario   ERSMITH@uwovax.bitnet
London, Ont. Canada N6A 5B7
ph: (519) 661-3638