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nethack-3.4.3p18

dungeon explorin', hackin', game. Piece of cake

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Description

This is nethack. Will you dare explore the dungeon, kill creepy monsters, and finish the game ? At least, you're starting with a bonus: a puppy (or a kitten) to help you. If you find that game too easy, you may want to try slash instead. To use nethack with X11 graphics, you will also have to add ${PREFIX}/share/fonts/hack to your fontpath, see xset(1) and Xserver(1). The tty version with colors uses ANSI colors, unless it finds a suitable termcap entry, for instance xterm-color. Flavors: no_x11 runs without X11. P.S. This is a very addictive game, with its whole wacky culture. And even a newsgroup dedicated to it (rec.games.roguelike.nethack). Don't say we didn't warn you !

Package information

Ports path
games/nethack/3.4
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Marc Espie <espie@openbsd.org>
Categories
games
Available flavors
no_x11

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