Devteam released version 5.0 of the legendary roguelike computer game NetHack yesterday. The game is 39 years old.
NetHack is an open source single-player rogue-like video game, first released in 1987 and maintained by the NetHack DevTeam. The game is a fork of the 1984 game Hack, which was inspired by the 1980 game Rogue. The player takes on the role of one of several predefined character classes to descend through numerous floors, fighting monsters and collecting treasures, retrieving the "Amulet of Yendor" on the lowest floor, and then escaping.
NetHack is a venerable computer game and by some opinions the greatest roguelike. Long before Caves of Qud or Dwarf Fortress it was, and still is, a game of astonishing depth, and for many years no other game had matched it. Even today, few games do.
Here you will find a list of the most important changes
The game is released for three system binaries: Windows, MS-DOS and Amiga. Yes, NetHack still supports MS-DOS and yes it still supports the classic Amiga: it supports AmigaDOS 3.0, which means it can run on 68000 machines. While Atari ST support is not explicitly mentioned, there are many references to it in the code.
- Read the NetHack 5.0.0 release notes.
- Download NetHack 5.0.0 here.
- List or Search the NetHack 5.0.0 known bugs.
- Read the NetHack 5.0.0 documentation and Guidebook.
Although the press releases will range from very select to rare, I said I'd pass...because sometimes the editors hide.
