nethack

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nethack - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  NetHack
  
     <games> /net'hak/ (Unix) A dungeon game similar to rogue but
     more elaborate, distributed in C source over Usenet and
     very popular at Unix sites and on PC-class machines
     (nethack is probably the most widely distributed of the
     freeware dungeon games).  The earliest versions, written by
     Jay Fenlason and later considerably enhanced by Andries
     Brouwer, were simply called "hack".  The name changed when
     maintenance was taken over by a group of hackers originally
     organised by Mike Stephenson.
  
     Version: NetHack 3.2 (Apr 1996?).
  
     (http://win.tue.nl/games/roguelike/nethack/).
  
     FAQ (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/)
     .
  
     FTP U Penn (ftp://linc.cis.upenn.edu/pub/NH3.1/) No large
     downloads between 9:00 and 18:00 local or the directory will
     be removed.
  
     Usenet newsgroup: news:rec.games.roguelike.nethack.
  
     E-mail: <nethack-bugs@linc.cis.upenn.edu>.
  
     (1996-06-13)
  

nethack - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  nethack
   /net'hak/, n.
  
     [Unix] A dungeon game similar to rogue but more elaborate,
     distributed in C source over Usenet and very popular at Unix sites
     and on PC-class machines (nethack is probably the most widely
     distributed of the freeware dungeon games). The earliest versions,
     written by Jay Fenlason and later considerably enhanced by Andries
     Brouwer, were simply called `hack'. The name changed when maintenance
     was taken over by a group of hackers originally organized by Mike
     Stephenson. There is now an official site at http://www.nethack.org/.
     See also moria, rogue, Angband.