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First there was hack.  Then came nethack.  The name comes from the game being a 'hack and slash' and has nothing to do with hacking. It's largely inspired by Dungeons and Dragons, and influenced many RPG games in the 1980's that were tile based. It was given widespread releas with the inclusion in the [[4.2 BSD]] operating system.
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'''Hack''' is a descendant of [[Rogue]]. The original Hack was Jay Fenlason's Hack, which at one point, apart from a few [[MS-DOS]] [[object code|binaries]], had been lost. It can now be recompiled from [[source code|sources]] at the NetHack archives.
  
You can find information [http://nethack.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page here].
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Andries Brouwer later released his Hack on Dec 17 1984. The source code to Hack 1.0 preliminary version, can be found on the UTZOO archives. Don Kneller made many of the ports, including PC-Hack to MS-DOS, and Hack-1.01 for the [[Amiga]].
  
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Hack had several updates through 1985; there was a 1.0.1, 1.0.2 and a 1.0.3. It later took on a life of its own on the Internet, much like [[NetBSD]], as [[Nethack]].
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==External links==
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* [http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Jay_Fenlason%27s_Hack Jay Fenlason's Hack]
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* [https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Hack_1.0#Availability NetHack archives]
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* [http://www.megalextoria.com/usenet-archive/news019f2/b34/net/sources/00002127.html Original announcement]
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* [http://shiftleft.com/mirrors/utzoo-usenet/news019f2.tgz news019f2] - tape in UTZOO archives
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* [https://github.com/neozeed/pchack PC-Hack]
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* [https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/MS-DOS#Hack_on_MS-DOS Hack on MS-DOS]
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* [https://github.com/neozeed/hack-1.01-Amiga Hack-1.01 for the Amiga]
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* [http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page Main_Page] - Nethack wiki
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[[Category: Games]]

Latest revision as of 14:31, 21 October 2023

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Hack is a descendant of Rogue. The original Hack was Jay Fenlason's Hack, which at one point, apart from a few MS-DOS binaries, had been lost. It can now be recompiled from sources at the NetHack archives.

Andries Brouwer later released his Hack on Dec 17 1984. The source code to Hack 1.0 preliminary version, can be found on the UTZOO archives. Don Kneller made many of the ports, including PC-Hack to MS-DOS, and Hack-1.01 for the Amiga.

Hack had several updates through 1985; there was a 1.0.1, 1.0.2 and a 1.0.3. It later took on a life of its own on the Internet, much like NetBSD, as Nethack.

External links