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Steel Skies -- NetHack
Jonathan del Strother
Edited on September 24, 2002.
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And now the souls of the dead who had gone below came swarming up from Erebus -- fresh brides, unmarried youths, old men with life's long suffering behind them, tender young girls still nursing this first anguish in their hearts, and a great throng of warriors killed in battle, their spear-wounds gaping yet and all their armour stained with blood. From this multitude of souls, as they fluttered to and fro by the trench, there came a moaning that was horrible to hear. Panic drained the blood from my cheeks.
The Odyssey, (chapter Lambda), by Homer
(Entry on 'ghost' in the NetHack database)
                

Nethack is a so-called roguelike game which has the simplicity of a deux chevaux, yet a depth unseen in many other games. Indeed, it includes everything up to and including the kitchen sink.

On this page I try to include every source of information on NetHack I've found useful. This does not include pages in a language I don't understand (there is, for example, a large Japanese speaking NetHack community on the internet,) nor does it include pages that don't contain original material, but only have links to other resources (so my own page is not listed.) I tried to include every page that has anything of its own.

If you don't know roguelike games yet, I advise you to browse the Reviews to get an impression of roguelike games in general and NetHack in particular. Most other links on this page presume at least player's knowledge of the game.

This page does include links to information on direct predecessors and descendants of NetHack. That means you can also find information on Hack, SLASH and SLASH'EM. I do not list links to pages about Rogue, Angband or other roguelike games. For me, the NetHack family tree begins with Hack. If you want a more complete overview of roguelike games, I suggest you take a look at BALROG.

Main sites

The official NetHack sites.

The Official NetHack site -- The DevTeam Main sites
Edited on March 28, 2003.
         The official site for NetHack, although there are many other places where you can get a version of the game. This one is where the DevTeam itself makes NetHack available to the public. Here you can find old versions, the most recent version, and all known bugs in recent versions of NetHack. Should you discover anything odd, consult these before sending mail to the DevTeam.
The DevTeam can be reached at devteam@nethack.org.
http://www.nethack.org · 837 pageviews · Add notes

The newsgroup: rec.games.roguelike.nethack Main sites
Edited on July 26, 2002.
         A newsgroup dedicated to this game, which has a reasonably low volume (less than a hundred articles a day) and a lot of involved discussion about strategy, wishes for new versions and questions with answers. Dylan O'Donnell maintains a FAQ at http://www.spod-central.org/~psmith/nh/rgrn-FAQ.txt that is also posted bi-weekly.
news:rec.games.roguelike.nethack · 437 pageviews · Add notes

Information sites

The information sites all contain some information on the game, such as history, technical information or spoilers.

Maniac's Ascension Guide -- Mark Johnson Information sites
Contributed by Dion. Edited on November 14, 2002.
         Mark has written a detailed strategy guide that describes general strategy, but also strategies for specific parts of the game. This probably is as close to a walkthrough you can get.
http://homepage.mac.com/mhjohnson/ · 1936 pageviews · Show/add notes (1 note)

NetHack 3.4 Spoilers -- Dylan O'Donnell Information sites
Edited on March 28, 2003.
         Dylan O'Donnell has updated Kevin Hugo's spoilers to NetHack 3.4, and has written some more himself. He has also written a Gazetteer of NetHack, and a detailed bibliography of the NetHack Database. Dylan also maintains the FAQ for the newsgroup.
http://www.spod-central.org/~psmith/nh/ · 1488 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack -- Mikko Saari Information sites
Edited on September 20, 2002.
         Mikko Saari wrote the Absolute Beginner's guide for NetHack. This guide contains a lot of information you need in the beginning of the game. It is meant to help a newbie through those frustrating first few games. Also on his site are collected funny posts from rec.games.roguelike.nethack.
http://www.melankolia.net/nethack/index.en.html · 772 pageviews · Add notes

The NetHack Home Page -- Boudewijn Waijers Information sites, Downloads and variants, Utilities
Edited on March 28, 2003.
         Part of Boudewijn Waijer's roguelike pages. It contains tips and spoilers, sources and binaries of many versions, including the older versions of Hack, and many utilities for different platforms. Still one of the most complete NetHack sites around, albeit a bit dated now.
http://home.tiscali.nl/~bwaijers/nethack/ · 622 pageviews · Show/add notes (1 note)

Sascha's and Ralph's NetHack Site -- Sascha Wostmann and Ralph Geissler Information sites, Downloads and variants, Utilities
Edited on April 1, 2003.
         This site is made by Sascha Wostmann and Ralph Geissler; Here you can find a collection of spoilers grabbed from the newsgroup, utility programs, a bones files repository and the NetHack Contest, where different NetHackers can play in the same dungeon. The site is a little biased towards the PC versions of NetHack. There is also some information on SLASH and SLASH'EM available here.
http://www.nethack.de/ · 550 pageviews · Add notes

Hello, welcome to NetHack! -- Milen Information sites
         An illustrated report of a game of NetHack. Annotated screenshots of 'a day in life in the Dungeons of Doom.'
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dungeon/5364/ · 473 pageviews · Add notes

Roguelike Review -- Travis Emmitt Information sites, Reviews
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         A comprehensive comparison of a large number of Roguelike games, including NetHack, is presented here. With it comes "Trav's shoplifting primer", mainly written to show NetHack's depth, but a nice collection of hints or spoilers in its own right.
http://www.tripecac.com/roguelike/ · 463 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack -- Kamen Kirilov Information sites
         On this page, you can find a small collection of bones files for NetHack, and some ascension stories. Perhaps the most interesting thing is a page with tips for Tourists, on how to survive early in the game with that class.
http://free.top.bg/kamenk/nethack.htm · 391 pageviews · Add notes

Ali's NetHack page -- J. Ali Harlow Information sites, Patches
Edited on June 30, 2003.
         Ali is the maintainer of the Unix version of SLASH'EM, and also hosts some spoilers about it. But his site has lots of NetHack information, too: including a very comprehensive monster manual that describes every monster in NetHack in detail; a copy of 'NetHack - The Next Generation', a variant of NetHack 3.1.3 with a geek character added; and a cross-referenced version of the source code. Furthermore, there are links to lots of information sites and to almost all patches in existence here; and Ali saved copies of the famous Wizard Patch and Josh Fishman's version thereof. Another patch that could have been lost to mankind is the Dwarf Patch, also available here.
http://www.juiblex.co.uk/nethack.html · 354 pageviews · Add notes

The Minetown Digger -- Curly++ Information sites
Edited on July 29, 2002.
         The Minetown in the Gnomish Mines now has its own newspaper. It has everything you should expect: cover stories, ads and editorials, but as such, it contains a lot of useful information on the game. Go there and have a good time reading. The site is no longer updated.
http://pages.infinit.net/curlypp/digger · 323 pageviews · Add notes

Yet Another NetHack Site -- Kate Nepveu Information sites
Edited on July 29, 2002.
         On Kate's spoiler site you can find HTML versions of the spoilers from Dylan's site; but there are also some spoilers that were only posted on rec.games.roguelike.nethack that are not available elsewhere. Furthermore, her site is searchable, which might help in finding a particularly esoteric feature.
http://www.steelypips.org/nethack/ · 317 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack Made Easy -- Zdim Information sites
         This site has a categorised command list, with categories like Movement, Inventory, Using items etc. It organises the command help a little more conveniently, and adds some more explanation.
http://www.digital-eel.com/zdim/freegames2/NCCL.htm · 316 pageviews · Add notes

The Nethack Incubus and Succubus FAQ -- Ray Chason Information sites
         Ray Chason, also known as Lee Jackson Beauregard, has written a small spoiler on how to get the most out of an encounter with an incubus or succubus. This is available on Sascha's and Ralph's site, but by mistake has also found its way into Games Domain's official FAQ directory. It still is an interesting spoiler, though.
http://www.gamesdomain.com/faqdir/Nethack-Incubus-and-Succubus.txt · 307 pageviews · Add notes

Roland van Ipenburg's NetHack Tourist Guide -- Roland van Ipenburg Information sites
Edited on April 25, 2003.
         This tourist guide gives hints and tips on how to play a tourist in NetHack without being too spoily. Some original travellers' stories make it good reading, too.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ipenburg/dds/touristg.htm · 235 pageviews · Add notes

Doctor Kildeer's Guide to NetHack -- J. Meeks Information sites
         Dr. Kildeer's site contains a massive amount of information on NetHack that seems to be gathered mainly by playing the game instead of decyphering source files or reading rec.games.roguelike.nethack. The information is therefore not as complete and correct as some of the main sites, but is fun reading and covers some area's not present elsewhere. This site is no longer maintained.
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Portal/2416/index.html · 209 pageviews · Add notes

SPOIL: An Automatic NetHack Spoiler Generator -- Cristan Szmajda Information sites, Patches
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         Cristan wrote a program that generates spoiler tables directly from the NetHack sources, by replacing NetHack's main(). This allows hime to generate spoilers for different versions of NetHack, several of which he has on his site. There also is a map of the dungeon and a graph of NetHack 3.2 spell casting probabilities here.
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cls/spoil/ · 208 pageviews · Add notes

Eva Myers's Home Page -- Eva Myers Information sites, Utilities
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         Eva has written a couple of pages with information about NetHack and SLASH'EM, among others a list of differences between the two. She also wrote (and hosts) a categorised list of NetHack Spoilers, which might help a lot in finding a particular piece of information. On this site, you can also find an updated version of nhk, a Perl program that shows you how the enemy is doing: it compiles a list of high scores for monsters from your logfile.
http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~eva/ · 174 pageviews · Add notes

The NetHack Docs -- The Devteam and Boudewijn Wayers Information sites
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         The NetHack Docs are a fully cross-referenced version of the documents and data files that come with NetHack. They give a whole new dimension to reading those old information files!
http://www.nicolaas.net/erebus/nhdocs/ · 170 pageviews · Add notes

Big X11 NetHack font -- Thomas A. Fine Information sites, Utilities
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         Here you can find a X11 font that you can use when playing NetHack; it has little pictures for all items and monsters. Detailed configuration instructions are available as well. Furthermore, you can find Thomas's thoughts on weapon skills, a detailed weapon recommendation for each character class and a damage calculator that lets you find out how much damage your character can do with each weapon.
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~fine/Fun/nethack.html · 158 pageviews · Add notes

Darshan's Slash'EM Page -- Darshan Shaligram Information sites, Patches
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         Darshan ported some patches available for NetHack to SLASH'EM, among others Tom Friedetzky's Dump Patch, Mik's Lethe Patch and Kelly Bailey's Mines patch. He also wrote some new ones, and two spoilers for SLASH'EM: one about gypsies and one about artifacts.
http://www.angelfire.com/trek/mazewest/ · 139 pageviews · Show/add notes (2 notes)

Roy's Web Site -- Roy Stead Information sites
         On this home page a large alphabetical list of spoilers is available, originally written for NetHack 3.0j, but updated to incorporate the changes since then. There is also an icon library available, with Windows icons for all roles in NetHack and SLASH'EM. You can use these to put shortcuts on you desktop for all different games you are currently playing.
http://www.kallistiyalla.com/royindex.html · 119 pageviews · Show/add notes (2 notes)

The NetHack Home Page -- Michael K. Neylon Information sites, Downloads and variants, Utilities
Edited on July 30, 2002.
         Another NetHack Home Page, which is no longer maintained since 1998. Contains spoilers, variants, utilities and various sources in ZIP-format, as well as some interactive pages filled by visitors with stories and one-liners.
http://pinky.wtower.com/nethack/ · 116 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack (and Slash'em) -- Christian Cooper Information sites, Patches
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         Chris thought that Vlad was a wimp, and so he wrote the Vlad Balance patch, which makes Vlad a much stronger adversary. He also wrote a spoiler about firearms in SLASH'EM which can be found on his site.
http://glass.tvu.ac.uk/~chi/nethack/ · 90 pageviews · Add notes

Hack and NetHack -- Petri Mikael Kuittinen Information sites
         On this site, Petri Mikael Kuittinen has gathered together some information on many roguelike games, including NetHack. He includes some background, small reviews, links and a glossary of terms. Here's the NetHack part of it.
http://www.hut.fi/~eye/roguelike/nethack.html · 78 pageviews · Add notes

The Bones Pile -- badlands Information sites
         This very Spartan site has a bones file repository containing bones files for version 3.3.0 of NetHack. There are bones for the DOS, Windows NT and Linux versions available.
http://www.geocities.com/badlands.geo/nethack.html · 69 pageviews · Add notes

The NetHack Dungeon -- Mattias Mansson Information sites, Utilities
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         On Mattias Mansson's site you can find little original content, but it does feature an international high score list (compiled from submissions), and you can download the DOS-version of the NetHack 3.2.2 and some utilities there.
http://welcome.to/Nethack · 63 pageviews · Add notes

rec.games.roguelike.nethack CR3T1NZ Advisory -- Urpo Lankinen Information sites
         WWWWolf is the Commander of the rec.games.roguelike.nethack CR3T1NZ Advisory Mobile Unit, always on the move to protect the newsgroup against spammers and off-topic posts. His "Official RGRNCA strikes" are archived here.
http://rgrnca.cjb.net/ · 60 pageviews · Add notes

3V's NetHack Page -- Viljo Viitanen Information sites
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         Although it is anounced that this site will disappear for years already, it is still there. This is the place where the NetHack code was first explained, some sort of geek code for NetHack players by Raisse the Thaumaturge (Irina Rempt) and others. Although version 1.1 is still there, you might want to take a look at the NetHack Code site for newer versions.
http://www.physics.helsinki.fi/~vviitane/nethack.html · 47 pageviews · Add notes

Tom Friedetzky -- Tom Friedetzky Information sites, Patches
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         Tom has made a patch available to compile SLASH'EM on Linux and other Unix platforms. On the page there is also a PostScript version of Kevin Hugo's spoilers (text and HTML versions are available on Sascha's site.) He also wrote another http://www14.in.tum.de/personen/friedetzky/nh330-dump.patch (with a detailed http://www14.in.tum.de/personen/friedetzky/nh330-dump.README) that allows you to dump character information to a file at the end of a game. (No links exist from his main page to them.)
http://www14.in.tum.de/personen/friedetzky/ · 33 pageviews · Add notes

Fly's Homepage - NetHack -- Fly Information sites
         Although this page is in Hungarian, it has a nice HTML version of the WCST spoilers for NetHack 3.0. Although these spoilers are now largely obsolete, they still form one of the few coherent guides to NetHack, and thus are fun to read.
http://fly.cc.fer.hr/fun/nethack/ · 30 pageviews · Add notes

Downloads and variants

In this category you find versions of NetHack apart from the official binaries and the variants of NetHack that are still available today. It also contains links to hints and spoilers for these versions, as far as they exist.
Patches to create your own version of Nethack are in the patches category, since they are only useful for people who can compile NetHack themselves.

The SLASH'EM Homepage -- Warren Cheung Downloads and variants, Patches
Edited on April 1, 2003.
         Warren Cheung has combined SLASH 4.1.2-8 beta by Enrico Horn with Larry Stewart-Zerba's Wizard Patch, and called the result "Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack with Extended Magic", or SLASH'EM. Since the first release a lot has been added to this variant, including the Dwarf Patch (archived on Ali's site). SLASH'EM is being actively maintained, incorporating changes from NetHack and other innovations.
http://www.slashem.org/ · 342 pageviews · Add notes

NETHACK 3.4.0 Win32 - larger tiles -- Jochen Riekhof Downloads and variants
         The new Windows Graphical version of NetHack 3.4.0 allows different tiles to be used. Jochen created enlarged versions of the original tiles for easier viewing on a high-resolution monitor.
http://www.riekhof.de/jochen/nethack/tiles.html · 317 pageviews · Add notes

The NetHack 2000 Project -- Aoki Yukihiko Downloads and variants
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         Aoki Yukihiko has created a version of NetHack 3.2.2 for MS-Windows95/98/NT, using 32x32 pixel tiles made by Mitsuhiro Itakura. There seems to be a problem with DNSs when you use the name of the site to link to, http://www1.vc-net.or.jp/~newpohl/nethack/, so I used the IP address. (Thanks to J. Ali Harlow.)
http://210.255.128.21/~newpohl/nethack/index.html · 286 pageviews · Add notes

Falcon's Eye -- Jaakko Peltonen Downloads and variants
         Jaakko Peltonen decided to take the graphics in NetHack even further; he created a version that uses a bird's eye view, features sound and music, and has some changes to the user interface to make playing NetHack easier -- including 'autopilot' for long movements, and tooltips to quickly identify objects or creatures. Falcon's Eye comes in versions for DOS, Windows and Linux.
http://www.hut.fi/~jtpelto2/nethack.html · 266 pageviews · Add notes

Rob Ellwood's home page -- Rob Ellwood Downloads and variants, Patches
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         Rob Ellwood has quite some information on how to change NetHack on his site, including how to create new predefined levels. His site also contains a collection of new levels for download (the "New Toys"), which you can install for your DOS or Windows version of NetHack; sources are included. Furthermore he wrote a patch to add a potion of lose ability to the game.
http://members.shaw.ca/rob.ellwood/ · 218 pageviews · Show/add notes (4 notes)

Geoduck Nethack -- Geoduck Downloads and variants
         Another new tileset for the Windows Graphical version of NetHack 3.4.0 was created by Geoduck. He took a different approach: his tiles make the complete map fit on most computer screens, and he uses pictures of letters for most monsters, with a little artistic addition to most of them.
http://www.olywa.net/cook/nhack.htm · 213 pageviews · Add notes

AllegroHack -- Kelly Youngblood Downloads and variants
         AllegroHack is an MS-DOS port of NetHack that uses the Allegro graphics library to provide fancier graphics. It supports different screen resolutions, true color and translucency, among others, but is still bones- and savefile compatible with the official DOS binary.
http://www.pinn.net/~jry/allegrohack/ · 159 pageviews · Show/add notes (1 note)

Itakura's Nethack 32x32 tile -- Mitsuhiro Itakura Downloads and variants
         If you want to make your own tiles, you can use Itakura's Do It Yourself kit, which contains the 32x32 tiles that he designed (the same that the NetHack 2000 project uses), and a program to create one large bitmap from them; this can be used in the GTK+ version of NetHack, SLASH'EM and AllegroHack.
http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-SanJose/9606/nh/eng.html · 151 pageviews · Add notes

Nethack 3.4.0 for PocketPC -- Alex Kompel Downloads and variants
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         Alex has created the Windows version of NetHack that is in the official 3.4.0 source. This unofficial version runs on PocketPC devices like the Compaq iPAQ.
http://shurik.11net.com/nethack/nethack.html · 132 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack with a Qt interface -- Warwick Allison Downloads and variants
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         NetHack with a Qt Interface is a version of NetHack with a Windowing interface for Linux and Windows. The Qt interface is now part of the official NetHack sources. Here you can get a version of Qt NetHack that also runs on SHARP Zaurus SL5000 and Compaq iPAQ handhelds running Linux.
http://trolls.troll.no/warwick/nethack/ · 108 pageviews · Add notes

noeGNUd -- Clive Crous Downloads and variants
Contributed by Dion. Edited on January 15, 2004.
         Clive created another NetHack UI, based on OpenGL. It features 2D and 3D, ASCII and tiles, and different tilesets; furthermore it allows recording of games and easy screenshots.
http://www.linuxgames.co.za/noeGNUd/ · 108 pageviews · Add notes

Gnome Mines, etc. -- Kelly Bailey Downloads and variants, Patches
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         If you are bored with the Gnomish Mines, here you can find a patch to add some more variety to the end level and the mine town. There is also a DOS binary available. To accomplish this, Kelly wrote some patches to the level compiler, which you can download here too. For AllegroHack there is a nice tileset that uses letters in different fonts for all monsters; for DOS, there is a special NetHack font.
http://www.evilgeek.com/nethack/ · 97 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack Hell Patch -- Ray Chason Downloads and variants, Patches
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         To make Gehennom a little less boring, the Hell Patch introduces more named demons with their own lairs. The final goal is to have 40 demons and 20 lairs to choose from, and an extra branch in Gehennom. There also is an MS-DOS executable available.
http://www.smart.net/~rchason/nethack/ · 95 pageviews · Add notes

GnomeHack -- Erik Andersen Downloads and variants
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         GNOME stands for "GNU Network Object Model Environment", and is a GUI desktop built from free software. GnomeHack is a port of NetHack for GNOME. It provides an alternative for the X11 interface (which is part of the official distribution) and NetHack with Qt interface.
GnomeHack now is part of the official NetHack source.
http://www.codepoet.org/andersen/erik/gnomehack/gnomehack.html · 93 pageviews · Add notes

Steel Skies -- NetHack -- Jonathan del Strother Downloads and variants
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         Jonathan made some extensions to the Windows version of NetHack 3.4.0: an enhancement to the message window that fades out old messages, and a new feature for the mouse: right-clicking on the map describes what's there. You can download sources and precompiled binaries.
http://www.steelskies.com/nethack.php · 85 pageviews · Show/add notes (1 note)

Kosher nethack page -- John Epstein Downloads and variants
         NetHack with a Jewish twist: Kosher NetHack adds a conduct to NetHack to only eat kosher food. To make life a little easier, sheep are added to this version as well. Expect to see three additional roles here as well: Yisrael, Levite and Kohan roles are under development.
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2c76t/Koshernethack.html · 78 pageviews · Add notes

SLASH -- Enrico Horn Downloads and variants
         Enrico Horn has combined Tom Proudfoot's SLASH V6 and NetHack 3.2.2, the result of which is called SLASH 4.1.2-8 beta. It comes in two versions, one without the blackmarket level and one with it. Binaries for DOS and patches for several platforms are available. There is also a Tile Editor for DOS available on his site.
http://www.rz.tu-ilmenau.de/~wi019/ · 70 pageviews · Add notes

glHack Home Page -- Andrew Apted Downloads and variants
         Adding to the increasing number of Window ports of NetHack, Andrew created glHack, a Linux window port using tiles. It looks a bit like the MS-DOS versions: it uses tiles, but no popup windows and other GUI elements. You need a (Debian) Linux system to use it.
http://glhack.sourceforge.net/index.php · 62 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack -- Tom Proudfoot Downloads and variants
         Tom Proudfoot is the original author of SLASH, "Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack", a famous variant of NetHack. He abandoned development of his variant after NetHack 3.2.2 came out, and now wrote several shareware and freeware roguelikes available at http://www.proudft.com/. Here you can read his thoughts about NetHack and SLASH. Sources and binaries for SLASH are only available at the Nethack3.2.1 & Slash 6 repository
http://www.proudft.com/nh.html · 56 pageviews · Add notes

Nethack -- Philipp Lucas Downloads and variants, Utilities
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         Apart from a lot of links, Philipp Lucas has some utilities to convert between record files (score files) from NetHack version 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3; a utility to merge score files; and Protected-mode MSDOS binaries for PatchHack on his site, as well as some information on this version.
http://www.online-club.de/~phlucas/nh.htm · 51 pageviews · Add notes

Nethack3.2.1 & Slash 6 repository -- David Brown Downloads and variants
         Here you can find sources for NetHack 3.2.1 and SLASH V6, as well as binaries for NetHack 3.2.1 and SLASH 6 and SLASH 5 for DOS and SGI and Sun UNIX.
http://reality.sgi.com/david_neu/slash-net-hack.html · 46 pageviews · Add notes

Jesse Thilo's NetHack page -- Jesse Thilo Downloads and variants
         On this site you can find the NetHack 3.3.1 sources and official binaries for the Macintosh, Windows, Linux, OS/2, MS-DOS, Amiga and Atari.
http://pobox.com/~jthilo/NetHack/ · 43 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack for Psion 5/5MX -- Duncan Booth Downloads and variants
         No doubt one of the smallest NetHacks around: NetHack for the Psion Series 5 and Revo. A front-end is added to make it easy to read the accompanying documentation, and to be able to start it from the Extras bar. Version 3.3.1 and 3.4.0 are available; 3.4.0 is for the 5MX, NetBook/Series 7 and the Revo and friends; it includes colour support, too.
http://dales.rmplc.co.uk/Duncan/Nethack.htm · 37 pageviews · Show/add notes (2 notes)

NetHack for Windows CE -- Jaakko Haakana Downloads and variants
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         There also is a version of NetHack for Windows CE around, thanks to Jaakko Haakana. However, it is only version 3.2.0, and there are only versions for SH3 and MIPS processors available for H/PC's running Windows CE 2.0. No new versions have been announced. PocketPC owners should take a look at Alex Kompel's NetHack for the PocketPC.
http://www.haakana.net/nethackce/ · 36 pageviews · Add notes

Welcome to the Spanish Nethack Web Site! -- Ray Chason Downloads and variants
         Ray Chason, who also wrote the Hell Patch, has started working on a version of NetHack translated into Spanish. Although it is not completely finished, it's playable and can be downloaded from this SourceForge site.
http://spanish-nethack.sourceforge.net/ · 28 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack 3.3.1 for Agenda -- D.J. Delorie Downloads and variants
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         If you own a Agenda VR3 Linux based PDA, you can run this NetHack port. It is the TTY version of NetHack. The program still is 2.5 MB, which might be too big for some people, though.
http://www.delorie.com/agenda/nethack/ · 24 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack for Debian GNU/Linux Downloads and variants
         Owners of a version of Linux could use the Debian source package of Nethack, available off the Debian Nethack page, or the patches to the official source. It supports proper color, IBM graphics support and sound on the Linux console. There is a beta version of NetHack 3.3.0 for Debian Linux available.
http://packages.debian.org/nethack · 23 pageviews · Show/add notes (1 note)

Patches

For anyone who has a compiler and some version of 'patch', their are patches for NetHack available on the web. In this category you can find links to them.

NetHack stuff -- Pasi Kallinen Patches
Edited on November 11, 2002.
         Pasi created a couple of patches, adding objects (butcher's apron, whetstone), new uses of existing objects (wash your hands, flip a coin) and a configurable status line to the game. He also wrote a new level compiler and added some new types of rooms to the game. New patches appear often, so check his page!
http://cs.joensuu.fi/~pkalli/code/ · 147 pageviews · Add notes

PatchHack -- Jason Short Patches
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         PatchHack is a single patch incorporating a large number of patches made various people. Here is its homepage.
http://patchhack.sf.net/ · 132 pageviews · Add notes

Nethack modifications and utilities -- Jukka Lahtinen Patches, Utilities
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         Jukka Lahtinen has written two utilities for NetHack users, reclist and mergrec, both of which come with source and DOS and OS/2 executables. reclist allows you to see the score file much like nethack -s does. mergrec lets you merge different score files from game versions 3.2.0-3.3.0.
Furthermore, a whole list of patches is available from this site, among which are a patch by Trebor A. Rude to have objects in a container merge together as they do in you main inventory and the Extinction Patch by Wingnut, that shows extinct species at the end of the game.
http://www.iki.fi/jslahti/nethack.html · 95 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack Patches -- Malcolm Ryan Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on October 22, 2003.
         These are miscelleneous patches, for various versions of NetHack. The latest include the Poisoned Weapons patch.
For 3.4.1: Lenses patch, extended alchemy patch.
For 3.4.0: add torches to NetHack, use eucalyptus leaves as a whistle, portable holes, Mirror of entrapment.
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~malcolmr/nethack/ · 81 pageviews · Show/add notes (1 note)

Miks Lethe Patch -- Michael Clarke Patches
         Similar to the Hell Patch, the Lethe Patch tries to make Gehennom less boring. It adds the fabled river Lethe and a number of monsters from the Cthulhu Mythos to NetHack, and adds items, monster behaviours and a lot of new or redecorated levels. Here you can find the patch and an MS-DOS executable.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~mykael/ · 63 pageviews · Show/add notes (2 notes)

GTK+ NetHack -- Issei Numata Patches
         Apart from a Japanese version of NetHack 3.2.2, featuring a new character, the JNetHack page also has a version of NetHack 3.2 running under GTK+. This is a patch, so you need the NetHack 3.2.2 sources and a copy of the GTK+ library; but if you can compile it, you get pseudo-3D tiles (or at least 32x32 tiles,) and a 'radar' window!
http://www.jnethack.org/jnethack-e.html · 63 pageviews · Add notes

Bertelli's place -- NetHack - Slash'EM -- Andre Bertelli Araujo Patches, Miscellany
Contributed by Dion. Edited on December 12, 2003.
         Andre wrote a couple of patches, among which the whips patch, which adds some more whips to NetHack, and the Bard's patch, which adds a bard character to the game. The bard is quite different in that he needs musical instruments to perform magic.
Furthermore you can find here a patch that enhance Monk's martial arts, and a Wizard's staff patch that adds a new weapon.
Also on this site is another NetHack Movie.
http://www.dorineleil.pop.com.br/bertelli/computers/games/nethack.en.html · 63 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack Patches -- Jim Crawford Patches
         On this page you can find a patch for NetHack 3.3.0 and 3.3.1 that adds highlighting to the status line. It will turn all important things (weak from hunger, low on hitpoints) orange to attract more attention to it. Furthermore, the famous Pizza Delivery Patch for 3.3.0 can be found here.
http://www.mindspring.com/~pfister_/nethack.html · 61 pageviews · Add notes

The Wizard Patch -- Larry Stewart-Zerba Patches
Edited on June 30, 2003.
         Larry Stewart-Zerba is the author of the famous Wizard Patch, with which a proficiency system similar to that for weapons is applied to spellcasting. This system is incorporated in NetHack since version 3.3.0. The latest version of the Wizard Patch as such is 1.0, and it is available on Ali's NetHack Page to which the link above now points.
http://www.juiblex.co.uk/nethack/Wizard/wiz10.txt · 59 pageviews · Add notes

The Boulder Patch -- D. Stage Patches
Edited on April 17, 2003.
         D. Stage wrote the Boulder Patch and made it available on rec.games.roguelike.nethack. It makes wands of digging destroy boulders, since some people believe it is a bug that this doesn't happen in the standard game. Other people disagree, of course... Decide for yourself; a copy of the Boulder Patch is available on my site.
http://www.nicolaas.net/erebus/boulder.diff · 56 pageviews · Add notes

Nethack Patches -- Nick Webb Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on December 1, 2003.
         Nick Webb, who is also responsible for some NetHack artwork (see his sketches and images gallery), wrote the Biodiversity Patch, which adds many new monsters to NetHack. The idea is to have at least three monsters in every class. Some miscellaneous changes include more tree types, level compiler changes and engravings in light.
http://userfs.cec.wustl.edu/~naw1/nh_patches.html · 55 pageviews · Show/add notes (1 note)

Auto-NetHack -- Tom Wilson Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on April 4, 2003.
         If you compile NetHack yourself, you have to edit the Makefile and some header files to set some settings to suit your needs. On this page you will find autoconf/automake scripts that automate this job.
http://auto-nethack.sourceforge.net/ · 53 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack-related stuff -- Scott Bigham Patches
         A big list of patches, most of them adding Other Funny Messages to NetHack 3.3.1. Also includes the Stick patch and the Preadjust patch to manage your inventory letters, and the Bagmerge patch that merges similar objects in containers.
http://www.killerbunnies.org/nethack/ · 52 pageviews · Add notes

Roderick Schertler's Nethack stuff -- Roderick Schertler Patches, Utilities
Contributed by Dion. Edited on March 31, 2003.
         Roderick Schertler wrote a Hearse client for Unix. It is written in Perl, so it could work on other platforms as well. He also wrote some patches (the pickup_thrown patch among others.) He also created Patchable Nethack, which is a version of the source code that makes it easier for patch and diff to solve conflicts between patches.
http://www.argon.org/~roderick/nethack/ · 45 pageviews · Add notes

nethack-cow -- Scott D. Hammack Patches
         This rather silly patch for NetHack 3.2.2 adds cows and so-called cow-hives to NetHack.
http://www.goldinc.com/~shammack/nethack-cow.html · 44 pageviews · Add notes

Easy-jumping patch -- Wingnut Patches
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         This patch was posted on rec.games.roguelike.nethack by Wingnut on 20/01/2000; it extends the #jump command so it casts the jump spell if you know it. This is a text version with human-readable instructions, as was the original post.
easyjumping.txt · 32 pageviews · Add notes

nethack 3.3.1 flood patch -- crystal Patches
         The Flood Patch adds a scroll of flood to NetHack.
http://www.purple-x.com/flood.html · 31 pageviews · Add notes

David Damerell -- David Damerell Patches
         When I complained loudly on rec.games.roguelike.nethack about a game lost by quaffing from a fountain with Caps Lock on, David Damerell wrote The Paranoia Patch. If you apply this patch to a vanilla 3.2.2 source tree, it alters the game such that you can specify "paranoid_quit" in your options. Quitting and entering Explore mode then asks you to type "yes", not just the letter "y". The Paranoia Patch is also ported to NetHack 3.3.0, although quitting now is done with other keys. Additionally, the sources for SLASH'EM (a ZIPfile for the DOS source and a .tar.gz of the source tweaked for Linux compiles) are mirrored here.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~damerell/ · 29 pageviews · Add notes

Servers and services

In this category some telnet servers providing NetHack are mentioned, as well as other special NetHack related services on the web.

The NetHack Tournament site @YourService Servers and services
         A website where you can play NetHack online. A Java applet is included to make a telnet connection to this site, although you can also use your own favourite telnet program. This site organized NetHack tournaments, but the last one is almost a year old.
http://www.thenethacksite.com/ · 560 pageviews · Add notes

/dev/null/NetHack Servers and services
Edited on October 13, 2002.
         /dev/null is another site to look if you want to compare your NetHack quality to others's. Using telnet you can play NetHack in a tournament on one of their servers.
http://nethack.devnull.net/ · 338 pageviews · Add notes

dtype.org - Public NetHack Server -- M. Drew Streib Servers and services
         Play NetHack using telnet at telnet://nethack.alt.org, or use a Java telnet application from this page. Miscellaneous statistics, highscores and death causes are available.
http://dtype.org/nethack/ · 223 pageviews · Add notes

Fishpool Creations NetHack Server Servers and services
         Another telnet server for playing NetHack, this one located in Finland.
http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~nethack/ · 185 pageviews · Add notes

Fyre's Domain -- Cyde Weys Servers and services
Edited on December 11, 2002.
         Cyde Weys' server has NetHack 3.4.0 to play. To connect, SSH or telnet to fyre.myvnc.com, specify "yasd" as your user name to log on, and then give your NetHack user name and a password.
http://fyre.sytes.net:8007/nethack.html · 142 pageviews · Add notes

The ChungKuo BBS Servers and services
         Here you can play a lot of telnet games, including the original Hack and NetHack. Use the Java Telnet client available at the website or telnet://chungkuo.org.
http://chungkuo.org · 96 pageviews · Show/add notes (1 note)

The NetHack Cafe -- WWWWolf Servers and services
Edited on December 19, 2002.
         If you sign up to FurryMUCK here and then telnet://furry.com:8888 (telnet furry.com 8888 if the log in link doesn't work) and type "tport nhc", you end up in the NetHack Cafe, where you can meet the werejackal waiter, WWWWolf and find a bulletin board; go ahead and unwind with a couple of fellow NetHackers!
http://www.furry.com/index.shtml · 70 pageviews · Show/add notes (1 note)

Utilities

These sites have utilities available that somehow are related to NetHack.

Clippy, the Shopping Assistent -- Lee Berger Utilities
         Clippy is an Internet page that helps you in identifying items that you find in a shop. You fill in some information on an item and it will present you a list of what it can be. A technique otherwise known as "price-IDing", but put in a nice web interface.
http://nethack.roy.org/clippy/ · 123 pageviews · Add notes

Hearse -- Alexis Manning Utilities
Edited on July 23, 2003.
         Hearse is a utility that allows Windows NetHack users to share bones files. It will upload your bones files to the server and download others in exchange. Different versions of NetHack and SLASH'EM are supported, for different platforms. There also exists a UNIX Hearse by Roderick Schertler.
http://www.krollmark.com/hearse/ · 96 pageviews · Add notes

Nethack-Recorder / Player Version 1.0 -- Helge Dennhardt Utilities
Edited on August 14, 2003.
         With these two utilities, you can record and play back a NetHack game as if it were a movie. Binaries for Linux and sources are available.
http://nh-recorder.sourceforge.net/ · 70 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack Scores -- John Everitt Utilities
         Nethack Scores produces HTML output from Nethack logfiles, and allows you to do some filtering. This could be useful for maintainers of NetHack servers. It requires Python 2.x. to run, but it will work on Windows and Unix.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/nhscores/ · 44 pageviews · Add notes

The NetHack Logparser -- Robert Lund Utilities
         Robert Lund has posted several versions of the NetHack Logparser on rec.games.roguelike.nethack; it is a Perl script that can show you top scores, average scores and top killers from a NetHack 3.2.2 logfile or record file. A copy of version 1.02 is available on my site.
logparse · 35 pageviews · Add notes

Software by Sascha Lüdecke -- Sascha Lüdecke Utilities
         Sascha Lüdecke wrote statnethack, a Perl program that summarises the performance of your characters in a table. Logentries from NetHack version 3.2, 3.3 and prior are supported.
http://www.meta-x.de/software/ · 33 pageviews · Add notes

Sacred Chao Online: Software - Hackers -- Joe Wreschnig Utilities
         Hackers is a Perl program that allows you to store a database of NetHack configuration files so you can play NetHack in different disguises. It tries to add some atmosphere into the bargain. The program is clearly written for Unix/Linux, so expect some work if you use another platform.
http://www.sacredchao.net/software/hackers/ · 26 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack Log Search -- Kalle Vahlman Utilities
Edited on November 29, 2002.
         While wondering how Raisse the Thaumaturge comes up with a death matching her posting all the time, Kalle wrote a small Perl program that finds a death reason containing given words in your logfile. At http://www.nicolaas.net/erebus/nh_logsearch.news.txt you can read instructions and disclaimers.
http://www.nicolaas.net/erebus/nh_logsearch.txt · 22 pageviews · Add notes

Reviews

Although most sites try to describe NetHack in one way or another, a couple of more formal reviews have been written about the game. If you want a description of the game in plain English, without being spoiled, or just want to know what other, not necessarily addicted, people think about NetHack, you should try these links.

The best game ever - Salon technology -- Wagner James Au Reviews
         From the author who also did the review in Wired Magazine, a much more involved article here in which NetHack is called 'the best game ever'. I whole-heartedly agree.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/01/27/nethack/index.html · 107 pageviews · Add notes

Back to the dungeon -- Wagner James Au Reviews
         Wired Magazine had a short review of NetHack in their August 1997 issue.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.08/streetcred.html?pg=3 · 97 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack -- Alex McLintock Reviews
         Here's an article written in 1994 by someone who says he's addicted. There is also a ANSI font for the ACORN available here.
http://www.arcfan.demon.co.uk/acorn/hack.htm · 73 pageviews · Add notes

Audyssey -- My Trip to the Mazes of Menace -- Michael Feir Reviews
         Michael Feir was one of the beta-testers for 3.3; he particularly helped out in making NetHack accessible for the blind. In this essay in Audyssey, a magazine about games playable by blind people, he reports about his findings.
http://www.geocities.com/sbobbitt21/audyssey21/trip.html · 71 pageviews · Show/add notes (3 notes)

Just Adventure + -- Just ASCII + -- NetHack -- Erik Reckase Reviews
         In a column series about interactive fiction and "other nongraphical adventure games", NetHack gets a very nice review.
http://www.justadventure.com/articles/JustASCII/03-NetHack/03.shtm · 62 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack - Free Games Net -- Dean Hughes Reviews
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         The information given in this review is far from correct; anyhow, it's always nice to read a five star rating for NetHack.
http://www.free-games-net.com/games/nethack.shtml · 60 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack: Tribute to a Legacy - Games Domain Review -- Jeff Kang Reviews
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         The second review by the Games Domain Review is written in april 1997, and contains a lot of nostalgia, and some history along the way.
http://www.gamesdomain.com/gdreview/depart/apr97/nethack.html · 51 pageviews · Add notes

Review of NetHack 3.2.2 - Team OS/2 Region Trier e.V. -- Thorsten Thielen Reviews
         This review by Thorsten Thielen gives a lot of examples to show how deep and complex NetHack is. Don't read it if you don't want to be spoiled.
http://www.teamos2.ipcon.de/prgvor/en-nethack.htm · 51 pageviews · Add notes

Deron's Games - NetHack -- Deron E. Meranda Reviews
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         Deron has reviews of which he thinks are the best computer games, and NetHack has a nice ranking among them, with a review. He also has written a story about his Sokoban Journey (at http://w3.iac.net/~dmeranda/nethack/), which is a bit like Milen's illustrated report, but with more detail.
http://w3.iac.net/~dmeranda/games/nethack.html · 46 pageviews · Add notes

The Linux Game Tome (Happy Penguin) - NetHack -- Gambit Reviews
         On this page, NetHack is reviewed and visitors added comments -- and it is these comments that can be insightful. By the way, NetHack gets an average 5 out of 5 star rating from all the visitors.
http://happypenguin.org/show?NetHack · 43 pageviews · Add notes

loonygames Feature - Adventures in ASCII -- Jeff Miller Reviews
         In this special feature of loonygames, a history of roguelikes is given, with quite some coverage of NetHack.
http://www.loonygames.com/content/1.28/feat/index.shtml · 39 pageviews · Add notes

Short Review of NetHack 3.1 - Games Domain Review -- Rowland Spencer-Smith Reviews
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         The first review by the Games Domain Review of NetHack 3.1, written in 1995. An article written by someone who is not necessarily addicted - yet.
http://www.gamesdomain.com/gdreview/zones/reviews/pc/june/nh31rev.html · 31 pageviews · Add notes

Gamespot - Unsung Heroes: Ground Breaking Games: NetHack -- T. Byrl Baker Reviews
         This special of Gamespot Magazine is about games that did not get enough recognition in their time... NetHack is chosen as the most ground breaking roguelike, as it is the deepest and most actively developed one.
http://gamespot.com/gamespot/features/pc/unsung_heroes/sec2_04.html · 31 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack - SharewareJunkies.com -- Davide Di Lazzaro Reviews
         A short review of NetHack 3.2.2 on the site of the Shareware Junkies.
http://SharewareJunkies.com/Mac/nethack.htm · 27 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack for OS/2 v3.2.2 - OS/2 e-Zine! -- Colin L. Hildinger Reviews
         Although this review was written for an OS/2 magazine, it is of course also of interest for NetHack players using other operating systems.
http://www.os2ezine.com/v2n6/nethack.htm · 22 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack: op zoek naar de amulet van Yendor - Pooh's magazine -- Gerhard Hoogterp Reviews
         Pooh's Magazine editie 5/95 had a review of NetHack -- in Dutch! It's old (it is about NetHack version 3.1.3) but I couldn't resist to put the link in.
http://www.bitbike.com/poohs/9505/nethack.htm · 17 pageviews · Add notes

Miscellany

This category contains all sites that fail to be categorised otherwise, but nevertheless have something to do with NetHack.

NetHack Movie 1 -- Zack Miscellany
         Zack turned a situation most NetHackers are familiar with into a flash movie. See it and shiver.
http://mths.faye.k12.wv.us/nethack/nethack.htm · 281 pageviews · Show/add notes (1 note)

The NetHack Code and the NetHack Purity Test -- Dion Nicolaas Miscellany
Edited on September 24, 2002.
         The NetHack Code is a sort of Geek Code for NetHack players, in which they can show their playing style to the world. The NetHack Purity Test is a similarly geeky thing. This page gives an overview of the history of the NetHack Code and the NetHack Purity test and several versions of both; it is also the home of nhcodec, a Perl program to decode a NetHack Code for you.
http://www.nicolaas.net/erebus/nhcode/ · 146 pageviews · Add notes

Sketches and images gallery -- Nicholas Webb Miscellany
Contributed by Dion. Edited on March 31, 2003.
         Adding to the NetHack Artbook, Nicholas has a page of drawings and paintings of NetHack monsters, and other work in a fantasy atmosphere.
http://userfs.cec.wustl.edu/~naw1/nh/nhgallery/index.html · 142 pageviews · Add notes

YASD -- Adam "SmartGamer" Norberg Miscellany
         On YASD, you can submit YASDs (Yet Another Stupid Death) and YAFMs (Yet Another Funny Message) using a web form. And of course you can read the online repository of Deaths and Messages posted there.
http://yasd.homestead.com/ · 126 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack - Wikipedia Miscellany
Edited on March 31, 2003.
         Wikipedia is a collaborative project to create an encyclopedia on the Internet. The item on NetHack is quite interesting to read, and has links to many related keywords in the encyclopedia.
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/NetHack · 120 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack - The Artbook -- Sabine Blochberger Miscellany
         This site has some NetHack-inspired art: pictures of scenes, characters and monsters you might encounter in the game.
http://www.blochberger.de/nethack/ · 94 pageviews · Add notes

Dvorak Card Game - The NetHack Deck -- Kevan Miscellany
         If you like card-games like "Magic - The Gathering", this might interest you; if you like Nomic-like games too, it certainly will. This is a NetHack based card-game, where you have to retrieve the Amulet of Yendor while fighting monsters, according to the Dvorak game concept; it allows you to change the rules as you go along, too!
http://www.dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?nethack · 89 pageviews · Add notes

A Guided Tour of Nethack -- Dave "Fargo" Kosak Miscellany
         or "The adventures of Spyke Johnson, ascii archaeologist." A comic story about Spyke Johnson, the ASCII archeologist.
http://www.gamespy.com/legacy/fargo/nethack_a.shtm · 80 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack Stories and Other Stuff -- Virgo Vardja Miscellany
         These are stories that could be called 'NetHack Fiction', that Virgo has posted on the newsgroup as well. Well-written and fun to read.
http://www.audentes.ee/~virgo/Nethack/ · 68 pageviews · Show/add notes (1 note)

Gorblimey: Art by Socar Myles -- Socar Myles Miscellany
         Another piece of fiction, this time a story about someone playing NetHack. Filled with thoughts about Life, the Dungeon and everything.
http://www.gorblimey.com/stories/nethack.html · 49 pageviews · Add notes

Visitor's items

Visitor-contributed items. If you want to add an item to the NetHack Index, you can use the submit page. If you want to comment on an existing item, select the Add notes link with that item.

The Absurd NetHack Tileset -- John Shaw Visitor's items, Downloads and variants
Edited on December 23, 2002.
         The Absurd Tileset consist of large, photo-realistic images of all NetHack entities. They come in two sizes: 96x96 and 72x72 pixels per tile. You need a lot of free memory to use them, but it will guarantee quite a different NetHack experience.
http://www.aesthetictech.8m.com/Absurd.htm · 263 pageviews · Add notes

nethackgear.com -- John and Dave Visitor's items, Servers and services, Miscellany
Contributed by Dion. Edited on December 20, 2002.
         Finally new T-shirts have arrived! At nethackgear.com you can choose from five different designs. But there is more stuff you can buy: fortune cookies with real NetHack fortunes in it.
You can also play NetHack on this site using SSH.
http://www.nethackgear.com/ · 213 pageviews · Add notes

antisymmetric nethacking Visitor's items, Servers and services
Contributed by Dion. Edited on September 17, 2002.
         This is an SSH NetHack server, which also keeps scores, bones and possibly movies to play back.
http://www.antisymmetric.com/nethack/ · 192 pageviews · Add notes

CatScratch.Org -- Michael J. Kitchin Visitor's items, Servers and services
Contributed by Dion. Edited on May 14, 2003.
         On this website, you can play NetHack in a Java applet in your browser. The highscores are available at http://www.catscratch.org/scoop/special/nethack_scores.
http://www.catscratch.org/scoop/special/nethack_note · 174 pageviews · Add notes

Help! No identify scrolls! -- David Damerell Visitor's items, Information sites
Edited on September 23, 2002.
         Identify scrolls and spells are very important for NetHack, but almost every item can be identified without using them. This spoiler explains the techniques to identify object without using scrolls or spells.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~damerell/games/nhid.txt · 158 pageviews · Add notes

Maniacs considered harmful -- David Damerell Visitor's items, Information sites
Edited on September 23, 2002.
         Since David did not agree with parts of Maniac's Ascension Guide, her wrote an elaborate response. He wrote comments on a lot of things in the Ascension guide, with detailed explanation why he differs.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~damerell/games/magresponse.txt · 144 pageviews · Add notes

Which NetHack Monster Are You? -- Kevan Visitor's items, Miscellany
Contributed by Dion. Edited on March 24, 2003.
         Take the quiz, and find out who you are! Answer a few questions and this quiz will tell you which NetHack Monster you would be if you were polymorphed. Created by Kevan, who also made the NetHack Dvorak Card Game.
http://kevan.org/nethack · 124 pageviews · Show/add notes (1 note)

wounded pixel -- witten Visitor's items, Miscellany
Contributed by Dion. Edited on February 28, 2003.
         A comic featuring NetHack in an all too well known setting... Primitive drawing but good fun.
http://pixel.torsion.org/6/ · 120 pageviews · Add notes

LegoHack! -- Irina Rempt Visitor's items, Miscellany
Contributed by Dion. Edited on October 16, 2002.
         Irina's daughters Rebecca, Naomi and Menna built the NetHack Minetown out of Lego. Here you can find pictures of this work. This Minetown was added to Rob Ellwood's New Toys levels.
http://www.valdyas.org/irina/nethack/ · 107 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack -- SomeOne Visitor's items, Downloads and variants
Contributed by Dion. Edited on October 27, 2003.
         Here you can find a preliminary version of NetHack for UIQ -- which is the Sony Ericsson P800 SmartPhone (and the P900 when it comes out.) The game is actually playable.
http://my-symbian.com/uiq/applications/applications.php?faq=3&fldAuto=492 · 98 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack Shirts -- Cafeshops Visitor's items, Miscellany
Contributed by Dion. Edited on March 20, 2003.
         There two more types of NetHack T-shirts to buy on-line. The two designs are available on three types of T-shirt. For those of you who still remember: the designs resemble the original out-of-print Jim McLennan T-shirts (pictures of that can be found on Sascha's site.)
http://www.cafeshops.com/nethack/ · 77 pageviews · Add notes

What Fools These Mortals -- Leonard Richardson Visitor's items, Miscellany
Contributed by Dion. Edited on July 24, 2003.
         Play the game of NetHack from another perspective: that of the gods. Send your hero to the Dungeons of Doom, and help him retrieve the Amulet or die in the attempt.
http://www.crummy.com/devel/WhatFools/ · 76 pageviews · Add notes

Off-Line: NetHack: Thinking of Maud, you forget everything else... Visitor's items, Miscellany
Contributed by Dion. Edited on February 28, 2003.
         For the proud NetHackers out there: T-shirts, sweaters, underwear (!), mugs and mousepads with NetHack designs are on sale at this site.
http://www.offlinetshirts.com/cgi-bin/comp/comp.cgi/maud · 74 pageviews · Add notes

nethack quick reference -- Brett Taylor Visitor's items, Information sites
Contributed by Dion. Edited on November 14, 2002.
         This NetHack Quick Reference card is a summary of all NetHack commands one one sheet of paper. It is available as a PDF file, so you need Acrobat Reader to view it.
http://www.webfroot.co.nz/nethack/ · 73 pageviews · Add notes

The Illustrated Nethack Monsters -- Ville Saalo Visitor's items, Utilities, Miscellany
Contributed by Dion. Edited on August 4, 2003.
         On this page you find an enormous collection of links to pictures elsewhere on the web, providing an illustration for many NetHack monsters and characters. Try also http://www.nicolaas.net/erebus/monsters/monsters.pl for all that are missing!
Also on this page is a log analyzer written in Visual Basic.
www.NetHackMonsters.tk · 70 pageviews · Add notes

Nethack Tile Font -- Roar Lauritzsen Visitor's items, Downloads and variants
Contributed by Dion. Edited on April 22, 2003.
         Roar made another X11 font (like Thomas Fine did), but this one looks more like the tiles that come with graphical versions of NetHack. They work best in color.
http://www.pvv.org/~roarl/nethack/nethack.html · 66 pageviews · Add notes

weaprole-341.txt -- Scott Hill Visitor's items, Information sites
Contributed by Dion. Edited on May 22, 2003.
         Scott rearranged Dylan O'Donnell and Kevin Hugo's weapon spoiler, to make it easier to spot which character class should use which weapon against which monster.
http://towers.par64.org/~shill/weaprole-341.txt · 59 pageviews · Add notes

HECK -- Kelly Bailey Visitor's items, Downloads and variants, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on June 6, 2003.
         Kelly Bailey, of the new Gnomish Mines fame, created HECK: an alternative hell. This patch changes all Gehennom levels to contain larger open spaces and more variety of terrain, in an attempt to make them them less boring. The HECK patch also contains Christian Cooper's Vlad patch.
A Windows binary is available.
http://www.geocities.com/cheepicus/ · 57 pageviews · Add notes

littlehack -- Iain D Broadfoot Visitor's items, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on July 28, 2003.
         Littlehack is a patch that makes NetHack smaller and easier; features are taken out to allow new players a gentler introduction to the game. This is a work in progress, so check back once in a while.
http://www.geeksoc.org/~ibroadfo/littlehack/littlehack.html · 56 pageviews · Show/add notes (1 note)

NetHack -- Neowall Visitor's items, Reviews
Contributed by Dion. Edited on August 5, 2003.
         Here is a well-informed review by a player. It starts with a nice colourful description of a game.
http://sdf1.cc/~neowall/jnk/nethack.html · 55 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack Additions -- Kelly Bailey Visitor's items, Downloads and variants, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on October 22, 2003.
         Kelly did it again! After the alternative Gnomish Mines and the Heck patch, he wrote Heck^2, which is another approach to make Gehennom more interesting. It consists of more than 40 hand-made special levels, a couple of which will be used each game.
You only have to install a new nhdat file to use Heck^2, but a patch to the makefiles is available as well for those who roll their own binaries.
Also on this site: Abigaba tiles, a tileset for the Windows version of NetHack (and SLASH'EM) made by James Hogwood.
http://www.multifoliate.com/nh/ · 54 pageviews · Add notes

Nethack 3.4.0 - Seppuku patch -- Sebastian Haas Visitor's items, Patches
Edited on September 23, 2002.
         For all samurai who want a more honourable way to get out of an impossible situation, there now is the possibility to commit suicide. This patch will allow you to do so, if you are an honourable person.
http://home.in.tum.de/~haasse/nethack/sampatch.html · 52 pageviews · Add notes

nethack-3.4.0 Documentation Visitor's items, Information sites
Contributed by Dion. Edited on December 19, 2002.
         Doxygen is a source code documentation system, which can also be used to extract and display source code structure. On this page, the source code structure for NetHack is shown; it includes all the source files, with cross reference information.
http://www.ointment.org/nethack-doxygen/index.html · 48 pageviews · Add notes

Conduct patch and Thievery patch -- Andreas Dorn Visitor's items, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on November 14, 2002.
         Andreas wrote two patches. The Conduct patch changes the way conducts works: you now have to say in advance which conducts you plan to adhere to. The Thievery patch (which is included in the Conduct patch, but is also available separately) adds a steal-attack for rogues. This URL gives a directory listing with descriptions and patches.
http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~adorn/nethack/ · 46 pageviews · Show/add notes (1 note)

Nephi's Nethack Patches -- Nephi Visitor's items, Downloads and variants, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on October 24, 2002.
         Nephi finished a feature that was partly implemented by the DevTeam: invisible objects. With this patch, any object can be invisible, which changes the handling in various ways. Binaries (for Windows) are available as well.
http://www.geocities.com/zindorsky/ · 40 pageviews · Show/add notes (2 notes)

Hack and NetHack -- Raymond H. Earle Visitor's items, Information sites
Contributed by Dion. Edited on December 19, 2002.
         Part of Raymond Earle's large database of Amiga game information, these Hack and NetHack pages are of historical interest. They contain quite a complete guide to Hack, and additional information on NetHack 2.
http://www.flash.net/~rayearle/Hfiles/Hack.html · 39 pageviews · Add notes

Shai-hulud patch -- Don Laursen Visitor's items, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on June 6, 2003.
         This patch adds a new artifact crysknife to NetHack, called the Tooth of Shai-hulud. It is an artifact version of the existing crysknife, with some interesting extra properties.
http://www.geocities.com/donrl/ · 39 pageviews · Add notes

ONLamp.com: Falcon's Eye: The Making-Over of Nethack -- Howard Wen Visitor's items, Reviews
Contributed by Dion. Edited on August 4, 2003.
         ONLamp.com is a website about open source web applications.This is a review of Falcon's Eye, the isometric interface to NetHack.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/01/02/falconseye.html · 39 pageviews · Add notes

Undercover Magascene -- "NETHACK v3.4.o" - new version of the hack'n'slay -- moondog Visitor's items, Reviews
Contributed by Dion. Edited on December 19, 2002.
         Undercover Magascene is a magazine for Atari owners. This review contains a lot of game information and spoilers (not necessarily correct), so be warned!
http://www.sirlab.de/tscc/ucm23/nethack.html · 37 pageviews · Add notes

nethack-el -- Ryan Yeske Visitor's items, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on March 20, 2003.
         For those of you who think Emacs is an operating system: NetHack can be played as an Emacs major mode, too. It offers some advantages, among which are customizable keys and colors.
http://www.nongnu.org/nethack-el/ · 36 pageviews · Add notes

The New Randomized, Aligned Athame Artifact Patch -- Locklear Visitor's items, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on January 27, 2003.
         This patch adds three new athame artifacts to NetHack 3.4.0, one of each alignment. The interesting thing about them is that their special characteristics are determined at random, so they are different each game.
http://www25.brinkster.com/zablefahr1/ · 33 pageviews · Add notes

The NetHack YANI Database -- Robin Schoonover Visitor's items, Information sites, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on November 18, 2003.
         Robin collected hundreds of "Yet Another New/Nifty Ideas" from the newsgroup and other sources, and put them in a database. The ideas are categorised, sortable and searchable.
http://student.bvsd.k12.co.us/~schoonov/yani/ · 33 pageviews · Add notes

SeedWiki - NetHack Source -- Kenneth Call and others Visitor's items, Information sites, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on November 18, 2003.
         A Wiki is a website where visitors can edit all contents. The NetHack Source Wiki is a Wiki about the NetHack source code, featuring ideas, patches and tutorials.
http://www.seedwiki.com/page.cfm?doc=Nethack%20Source&wikiid=3577 · 31 pageviews · Add notes

netcheck.pl (bones lister) -- Sebastian Haas Visitor's items, Utilities
Edited on September 23, 2002.
         If you play NetHack on a Unix system, this utility might be useful (albeit spoily): It shows what bones files exist on your system, and some information about them.
http://home.in.tum.de/~haasse/nethack/netcheck.pl · 29 pageviews · Add notes

BBspot - New ATI Card Pushes Limits of ASCII Gaming -- Brian Briggs Visitor's items, Miscellany
Contributed by Dion. Edited on February 28, 2003.
         BBspot is a satirical news and comedy site. They here announce the release of a very special graphics card...
http://bbspot.com/News/2003/02/ati_ascii.html · 29 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack -- David Corbett Visitor's items, Information sites
Contributed by Dion. Edited on September 23, 2003.
         David's NetHack page houses the Cockatrice spoiler, which explains everything about those dangerous monsters.
http://www.geocities.com/dcorbett42/nethack/nethack.htm · 28 pageviews · Show/add notes (1 note)

Nethack patches -- James Visitor's items, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on July 28, 2003.
         James added a doppelganger race to NetHack. With this patch, you can play as a doppelganger with instrinsic polymorph and polymorph control.
http://oregonstate.edu/~headricj/Nethack.htm · 27 pageviews · Add notes

Nethack Patches -- Benjamin Schieder Visitor's items, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on August 4, 2003.
         Here you find some patches for NetHack; among others a patch that allows you to break boulders with your bare hands (if you can do Martial Arts,) and one that adds a new artifact robe named Snakeskin to the game.
http://www.crash-override.net/patches/nethack.php · 27 pageviews · Add notes

sortloot -- Jeroen Demeyer Visitor's items, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on April 22, 2003.
         This is a patch that changes the display of lists of items. Instead of the more or less random order you normally see when looking at your inventory, or items on the ground, they are neatly sorted alphabetically. This is an option you can switch on or off.
http://cage.rug.ac.be/~jdemeyer/nethack/sortloot.diff · 26 pageviews · Add notes

TCL script to collate stats from NetHack/SlashEM record files -- Karim Rashad Visitor's items, Utilities
Contributed by Dion. Edited on March 28, 2003.
         In the long list of utilities that analyse log files, here's one written in TCL. It shows averages per race and class, and causes of death.
http://audiomule.net/nh/skills.html · 25 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack 3.4.0/1 Jay's D&D 3rd Ed mod -- Julian Iizuka Visitor's items, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on August 4, 2003.
         This is a patch that brings the strength and AC of your character more in line with recent versions of D&D. No more 18/* strength, and AC goes up instead of down.
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/iizuka/nethack/dd3e/ · 25 pageviews · Add notes

Nethack Tournament Patch -- Florian Visitor's items, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on August 4, 2003.
         With this patch you can have two games of NetHack start with the same dungeon, and with characters with the same starting equipment. That way people can compete under circumstances that are more similar than in a normal game of NetHack.
http://waah.dyndns.org/nhtournament/ · 24 pageviews · Add notes

DeeT's Linux Nethack Fonts Page -- David B. Thomas Visitor's items, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on August 4, 2003.
         If you run NetHack in a Linux console, and you want something more 'graphical' looking than characters, you can try the special console font for NetHack. It has simple symbols for everything instead of letters. If you don't like the one DeeT provided, you can make your own with his Font Editor, also available on this page.
http://dt.prohosting.com/hacks/nethack.html · 24 pageviews · Add notes

Nethack Patches -- Glyn Visitor's items, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on August 5, 2003.
         Glyn wrote the Hoods patch; with it, a hooded cloak actually goes over your helmet, which has several effects.
http://compsoc.net/~glyn/hacks/nethack.html · 24 pageviews · Add notes

The Hobbit and Customize Race Patch -- Karl Garrison Visitor's items, Downloads and variants, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on September 23, 2003.
         This patch contains two parts, which can be used independently: one part adds a new race, the Hobbit; the other part makes more combinations of race, role and alignment possible.
The address points to a source patch; a windows binary is available at http://www.homebrew.net/~karlos/nh342-w32-races-1.zip.
http://www.homebrew.net/~karlos/races-1.diff · 24 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack autoopen patch -- Stefano Busti Visitor's items, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on March 25, 2003.
         With the autoopen patch, doors automatically open when you run into them.
http://www.lspace.nildram.co.uk/nethack.html · 23 pageviews · Add notes

Artifact Balance -- Hojita Discordia Visitor's items, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on September 25, 2003.
         This patch changes a lot about artifact weapons: most are toned down a little, it is more difficult to get one, and perhaps the most interesting part: gods may take an artifact back when you misbehave.
http://misao.messingonline.net/nethack/artifact/ · 23 pageviews · Add notes

Nethack Patches -- Stanislav Traykov Visitor's items, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on July 21, 2003.
         On this page you can find a couple of patches for NetHack; among others a bugfix that prevents permanent corpses. Also here is the "nested looting" patch that allows you to apply a bag within another bag with only one keystroke.
http://home.in.tum.de/~traykovs/nethack/ · 22 pageviews · Show/add notes (1 note)

NetHack brass -- youkan Visitor's items, Downloads and variants, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on October 31, 2003.
         NetHack brass is a NetHack variant from Japan; it includes some balance tweaks, some features from Stephen White's NetHack+, and some alternative levels to make Gehennom less boring.
http://www11.cds.ne.jp/~youkan/nethack/index_e.html · 22 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack Map Construction Helper -- youkan Visitor's items, Utilities
Contributed by Dion. Edited on October 31, 2003.
         Good news for level designers; although this is not a full-featured visual point and click level designer (yet), it will make creating new levels a lot easier.
http://www11.cds.ne.jp/~youkan/nethack/nhmapcon_e.html · 21 pageviews · Add notes

NetHack with HTML dump support -- So-Miya and others Visitor's items, Downloads and variants, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on October 31, 2003.
         With this patch, you can make screendumps, dump your character's stats and dump the screens at the end of your game, all in HTML format. Sources and Windows binaries available, for NetHack, NetHack brass and JNetHack (Japanese NetHack.)
http://nethack-users.sourceforge.jp/htmldump/ · 18 pageviews · Add notes

nethack@forkexec.com -- Justin Flude Visitor's items, (Uncategorised)
Edited on November 16, 2003.
         play NetHack right now, by Java (Telnet)
http://www.forkexec.com/html/play-hack.html · 17 pageviews · Add notes

fork/exec Visitor's items, Servers and services
Contributed by webmaster@forkexec.com. Edited on February 7, 2004.
         NetHack, MultiTrek, Zork, Adventure, Sail, Hunt - telnet (+ Java)
http://www.forkexec.com/ · 16 pageviews · Add notes

Fire XOR Cold patch for Nethack -- James Visitor's items, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on July 28, 2003.
         With this patch, fire resistance and cold resistance are made mutually exclusive: you can have one or the other, but not both. Well, you can have both under special circumstances, but normally getting one makes the other one go away.
http://james.lab6.com/2003/07/27/fireXORcold/ · 15 pageviews · Add notes

Michael Lehotay's NetHack patches and utilities -- Michael Lehotay Visitor's items, Patches, Utilities
Contributed by Dion. Edited on December 15, 2003.
         Michael wrote the NetHack Random Character selector, which gives you a bit more control on random character selection, and some patches: Tree cutting (to cut trees), Defer name (to choose your name after all other character traits) and an improvement to the DOS DJGPP Makefile.
http://post.queensu.ca/~lehotay/nethack/ · 15 pageviews · Show/add notes (1 note)

Nethack Patches and Bug Fixes for 3.4.3 -- Chris Becker Visitor's items, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on January 5, 2004.
         Chris fixed a couple of bugs and inconsistencies he found in NetHack. Some of them are on the DevTeam's list, some aren't; you can report your own to him if you want to.
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~topher/nethack/ · 15 pageviews · Add notes

Hack 1.0.3 -- Andries Brouwer Visitor's items, Main sites, Information sites, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on February 13, 2004.
         For archaeologists, here is a page about the history of Hack 1.0.3, written by its author himself. Sources and patches included.
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~aeb/games/hack/hack.html · 7 pageviews · Add notes

Donnie Russell's Home Page - RevivedHack -- Donnie Russell Visitor's items, Downloads and variants
Contributed by Dion. Edited on February 13, 2004.
         Donnie has ported the old PC Hack 3.61, which is a direct descendant of Andries Brouwer's Hack, to modern systems. It runs on Windows, DOS and Linux.
http://www.freewebs.com/drussell/RevivedHack.htm · 5 pageviews · Add notes

Polysilver patch -- Joshua Kwan Visitor's items, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on January 13, 2004.
         With this patch, silver-hating creatures (like vampires) will receive a little bit of damage when wearing or wielding silver items.
http://triplehelix.org/~joshk/polysilver_v2.diff · 2 pageviews · Add notes

Dudley's dungeon -- Dion Nicolaas Visitor's items, Miscellany
Contributed by Dion. Edited on February 24, 2004.
         Dudley's dungeon is a daily comic set in the NetHack world. Read the adventures of Dudley, and write your own if you want to!
http://dudley.nicolaas.net/ · 2 pageviews · Add notes

CMOT Dibbler's sausages-inna-bun -- David Corbett Visitor's items, Patches
Contributed by Dion. Edited on February 17, 2004.
         This patch adds the character of Cut-me-own-throat Dibbler (from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels) to NetHack. You can find him in the Tourist quest, and buy sausages from him. At your own risk, of course.
http://www.geocities.com/dcorbett42/nethack/dibbler.txt · 1 pageview · Add notes



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