Comments on: Nethack

by: Terminally Incoherent » Blog Archive » Setting Up a Private Nethack Server on Ubuntu Lite

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:57:30 +0000

[…] We already established that terminally incoherent readers love them some nethack. The nice thing about nethack is that it takes only few hundred kb on your drive, and provides you with endless tons of entertainment. But hell, you don’t even need to install it. All you need to taste the nethack goodness is telnet. […]

by: Jake

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:50:04 +0000

@Luke Maliak: On the note of the user agent plug-in, it also misread the Iceape I was using as a generic Mozilla. The user agent is “Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 Iceape/1.1.4 (Ubuntu-1.1.4-1ubuntu2)”. Not that it really matters. I’ve been playing with a lot of different web browsers lately.

by: k00pa

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 08:59:35 +0000

It is the greatest game!

by: Luke Maciak

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 08:26:41 +0000

Yeah, there is a little bug in the OS snooper plugin - it treats XP64 as Server 2003. I tried fixing it but last time I checked the user agent info provided by both OS’s is virtually identical.

by: vacri

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:57:12 +0000

Windows Server 2003? This is an MSDN version of XP64, dammit!

By the way, XP64 bites.

by: vacri

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:55:53 +0000

ADoM ftw. I never did like nethack’s anachronisms, whereas ADoM is pretty tight. Webpage is pretty sucky but the game is a lot of fun.

by: Jake

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:37:30 +0000

@Luke Maciak: True. Probably next time the Internet goes out I’ll try it again, since I don’t have many games on my computer that I can load in a couple of seconds (besides Patience and Kolf).

by: Luke Maciak

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:33:08 +0000

Well, I guess it’s not for everyone. But I’ll say this - it grows on you. One day you are bored out of your mind, and will be looking for a mindless flash game to play and you will remember nethack and you will enjoy it much more.

by: Jake

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:16:23 +0000

I’ve played some nethack in the past few days. I guess I’m simply too young to appreciate it. I don’t really find it fun at all. :\

by: Luke Maciak

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:38:14 +0000

It is a bit complex but you can always press ? to get in game help. All the commands are essentially single key presses.

For example to wear armor you press W, and then the game asks you what do you want to wear. One of the options is ? which will pull up a list of wearable items with their corresponding characters (a, b, c and etc). Ditto for wielding weapons, eating, dropping items, quaffing potions and etc.

If you find a chest you loot it with lower case l. If it’s locked, you can type in:

#force

to force the lock open with the weapon you have in your hand. Of course it may break.

You press S to save and exit. You can’t save and continue playing and once you die, you must start over. That’s the only annoying thing, but it if you get far into it it feels like an accomplishment.

The rest is just standard dungeon crawl. You see a chest, you loot it. You see a monster you kill it and loot it’s corpse. You see a store, you sell crap you don’t want and spend the gold.

I’d say jump in and learn by playing. You might die in silly ways few times, but that’s just part of the fun.