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Nethack 5.0.0 is out! (nethack.org)
submitted 2 months ago by monolalia@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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While I prefer Dynahack these days for the more luxurious TUI and additional content, Nethack has been one of my favourites from as far back as my Amiga days. Once you realise you can at least try to do anything with anything¹ (use the * wildcard character when asked for an item), the game opens up in ways most RPGs just can’t.

¹ use a wand to write in the dust, train a pet to steal from shops, throw potions at monsters, eat (or refrigerate) slain monsters to gain their abilities, rub lamps just in case, wash the ink off scrolls, use a credit card to unbolt doors…

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nethack is still getting updates?! :O

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago

Oh, I didn't know that. I knew there were a lot of very widely-used patches, especially on NAO, but not that their developers then got brought into the fold. Cool!

[–] kbal@fedia.io 18 points 2 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.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago

C99 compliant!!

[–] Hettyc_Tracyn@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] monolalia@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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