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Anyone still playing nethack?

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First post, by urbancamo

Posted on 2025-03-07, 16:37

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Nethack seems to have had a resurgence in the past few years, but has been there for most of my life in one form or another.

It was played widely at the first company I worked for, Cybertek, when I started in 1992.

Given that year my IBM Thinkpad 340 is right on point for that year together with a similar period numeric keypad, giving me those all important diagonal movement keys without reducing the commands available from the main keyboard. Also on point is that I’m logging into my simh VAX/VMS instance using Reflection terminal emulator on Windows 3.11.

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I’m still terrible at it however!

Cheers Mark

Reply 1 of 4, by wierd_w

Posted on 2025-03-07, 16:40

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Yeah. Theres versions for android.

Tada

https://github.com/gurrhack/NetHack-Android

Reply 2 of 4, by mr.cat

Posted on 2025-03-07, 19:37

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Yeah roguelikes in general have been making a comeback, there are even some people trying to extract commercial value out of them.

In general these are a great match for retro machines, especially if you're doing some lenghty compiles and such.
My favorite one Cataclysm: DDA might be just a bit too much for older hardware though.
Yeah there's always the terminal option, but it really wants something more substantial than 80x25.

There's probably more computing power available on smartphones, but otherwise that doesn't strike me as a great platform for this type of games.
Maybe I'm just too old to understand 😁

Btw I haven't seen LLM tech integrated into roguelikes... yet.
It'll happen, just you wait.

Reply 3 of 4, by BitWrangler

Posted on 2025-03-07, 21:21

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Moria is my roguelike of choice. I have had a few goes at getting into Nethack over the decades, but somehow end up back in Moria.

I also never used to be able to play without a keypad, but had a spell of having to use a netbook while stuck at a relatives babysitting while the kids were in bed, so got used to using number row and/or pageup pagedown home and end for the diagonals.

Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.

Reply 4 of 4, by Damaniel

Posted on 2025-03-08, 01:11

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I was never a big fan of Nethack, but I played a ton of Angband back in the day. Angband (well, NPPAngband, not vanilla) is the only one of the original roguelikes that I've managed to beat without save scumming.

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