[Holly-L] Hack the Game

[Ron Jarrell]

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I have a unix copy, but not current.  Try places like shareware.com
or download.com, and search for "nethack".  That's the current name
of the project.

At 08:32 PM 9/24/99 -0400, Holly Lisle wrote:
>I have a question that those of you with experience with older 
>computers might be able to answer.  There was a game called 
>"Hack" way back when -- ASCII characters, a maze, various spells 
>and a dog -- that was, I think, originally designed to be played on 
>Unix machines and that was ported over to DOS when PCs became 
>viable and people actually started using them.
>
>Do any of you remember it?  Have any of you played it?  Does 
>anybody know where I could find a copy?  It was a very cool game 
>in a very weird way, and I'd love to see if I could get all the way 
>through it once.
>
>Holly
>          Holly Lisle -- never give up on your dreams
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I have a unix copy, but not current.  Try places like
shareware.com
or download.com, and search for "nethack".  That's the
current name
of the project.

At 08:32 PM 9/24/99 -0400, Holly Lisle wrote:
> I have a question that those of you with
> experience with older 
> computers might be able to answer.  There was a game called 
> "Hack" way back when -- ASCII characters, a maze, various
> spells 
> and a dog -- that was, I think, originally designed to be played on 
> Unix machines and that was ported over to DOS when PCs became 
> viable and people actually started using them.
>
> Do any of you remember it?  Have any of you played it?  Does
> anybody know where I could find a copy?  It was a very cool game
> in a very weird way, and I'd love to see if I could get all the way 
> through it once.
>
> Holly
>          Holly Lisle -- never
> give up on your dreams
>         
> -------------------------------------------
>              
> e-mail holly.lisle@sff.net
>  reader page --
> http://elwood.pionet.net/~shangri/holly1pa.htm/
>      writer page --
> http://www.sff.net/people/holly.lisle/
>
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