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NetHack 3.6.5 Released

posted by martyb on Wednesday January 29 2020, @12:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the remote-code-execution-is-part-of-the-challenge dept.

darkfeline writes:

A new version of the venerable roguelike game NetHack has been released. This release is primarily a security release:

NetHack 3.6.5 is the official release of NetHack that follows NetHack 3.6.4.

This release primarily corrects security issues present in NetHack versions 3.6.0, 3.6.1, 3.6.2, 3.6.3 and 3.6.4. For details about the security issues please see https://www.nethack.org/security.

You are encouraged to update to NetHack 3.6.5 as soon as possible.

Quoth Wikipedia:

NetHack is a single-player roguelike video game originally released in 1987 with ASCII graphics. It is a descendant of an earlier game called Hack (1982), which is a clone of Rogue (1980). Comparing it with Rogue, Engadget's Justin Olivetti wrote that it took its exploration aspect and "made it far richer with an encyclopedia of objects, a larger vocabulary, a wealth of pop culture mentions, and a puzzler's attitude." In 2000, Salon described it as "one of the finest gaming experiences the computing world has to offer".

For those who have not played it yet, I encourage you to play it a few dozen times. You will die. A lot.

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  • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Wednesday January 29 2020, @03:54PM (4 children)

    by mhajicek (51) on Wednesday January 29 2020, @03:54PM (#950677)

    I'm partial to Moria myself.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 29 2020, @09:30PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 29 2020, @09:30PM (#950853)

    Can you still get that code? I think back to some of those games I played on the mainframes like that, and netrek(?) and others. Boy those were lots of fun. I'm pretty sure I have forgotten most of what was available, but the nettrek (is it two "t"'s?) blew me away because it was online multiplayer. I never got any good at it, and the sysadmin guys who basically played it all day went around and blew up the newbies like me, but it was still a lot of fun.

  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday January 29 2020, @10:27PM

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Wednesday January 29 2020, @10:27PM (#950885) Journal

    I played Beneath Apple Manor back in the day.