RevivedHack

Hack, the ancestor of NetHack, was created in 1982 by Jay Fenlason with the assistance of Kenny Woodland, Mike Thome, and Jonathan Payne. It was inspired by Rogue, and was intended to be an improved version of it. Apparently, the original source code didn't survive, and only derivatives of it exist. One such derivation was Andries Brouwer's Hack, which was posted to Usenet in December of 1984. Brouwer released versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, and finally 1.0.3 for the UNIX operating system. They were distributed through Usenet as complete source code or patches against a previous version. They were later ported to MS-DOS (PC Hack) and Amiga. Version 1.0.3 is currently distributed with operating systems in the BSD family.

Don Kneller's port of Hack 1.0.3, PC Hack 3.61, is the basis of RevivedHack, which integrates his bug fixes and most of his changes. For this updated port I added color, support for graphical tiles and sound effects, and new saved game and message display code. I also collected bug reports from old newsgroup messages, and fixed those bugs, as well as others I found while playtesting.

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