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- Behold, mortal, the origins of NetHack...
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- Jay Fenlason wrote the original Hack with help from Kenny Woodland,
- Mike Thome, and Jon Payne.
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- Andries Brouwer did a major re-write, transforming Hack into a very different
- game, and published (at least) three versions (1.0.1, 1.0.2, and 1.0.3) for
- UNIX(tm) machines to the Usenet.
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- Don G. Kneller ported Hack 1.0.3 to Microsoft(tm) C and MS-DOS(tm), producing
- PC HACK 1.01e, added support for DEC Rainbow graphics in version 1.03g, and
- went on to produce at least four more versions (3.0, 3.2, 3.51, and 3.6).
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- R. Black ported PC HACK 3.51 to Lattice(tm) C and the Atari 520/1040ST,
- producing ST Hack 1.03.
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- Mike Stephenson merged these various versions back together, incorporating
- many of the added features, and produced NetHack version 1.4. He then
- coordinated a cast of thousands in enhancing and debugging NetHack 1.4 and
- released NetHack versions 2.2 and 2.3.
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- Later, Mike coordinated a major rewrite of the game, heading a team which
- included Ken Arromdee, Jean-Christophe Collet, Steve Creps, Eric Hendrickson,
- Izchak Miller, Eric S. Raymond, John Rupley, Mike Threepoint, and Janet Walz,
- to produce NetHack 3.0c. The same group subsequently released ten patch-
- level revisions and updates of 3.0.
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- NetHack 3.0 was ported to the Atari by Eric R. Smith, to OS/2 by Timo
- Hakulinen, and to VMS by David Gentzel. The three of them and Kevin Darcy
- later joined the main development team to produce subsequent revisions of
- 3.0.
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- Olaf Seibert ported NetHack 2.3 and 3.0 to the Amiga. Norm Meluch, Stephen
- Spackman and Pierre Martineau designed overlay code for PC NetHack 3.0.
- Johnny Lee ported NetHack 3.0 to the Macintosh. Along with various other
- Dungeoneers, they continued to enhance the PC, Macintosh, and Amiga ports
- through the later revisions of 3.0.
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- Headed by Mike Stephenson and coordinated by Izchak Miller and Janet Walz,
- the development team which now included Ken Arromdee, David Cohrs,
- Jean-Christophe Collet, Kevin Darcy, Matt Day, Timo Hakulinen, Steve Linhart,
- Dean Luick, Pat Rankin, Eric Raymond, and Eric Smith undertook a radical
- revision of 3.0. They re-structured the game's design, and re-wrote major
- parts of the code. They added multiple dungeons, a new display, special
- individual character quests, a new endgame and many other new features, and
- produced NetHack 3.1.
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- Ken Lorber, Gregg Wonderly and Greg Olson, with help from Richard Addison,
- Mike Passaretti, and Olaf Seibert, developed NetHack 3.1 for the Amiga.
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- Norm Meluch and Kevin Smolkowski, with help from Carl Schelin, Stephen
- Spackman, Steve VanDevender, and Paul Winner, ported NetHack 3.1 to the PC.
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- Jon W{tte and Hao-yang Wang, with help from Ross Brown, Mike Engber, David
- Hairston, Michael Hamel, Jonathan Handler, Johnny Lee, Tim Lennan, Rob Menke,
- and Andy Swanson developed NetHack 3.1 for the Macintosh, porting it for
- MPW. Building on their development, Barton House added a Think C port.
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- Timo Hakulinen ported NetHack 3.1 to OS/2. Eric Smith ported NetHack 3.1
- to the Atari. Pat Rankin, with help from Joshua Delahunty, is responsible
- for the VMS version of NetHack 3.1. Michael Allison ported NetHack 3.1 to
- Windows NT.
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- Dean Luick, with help from David Cohrs, developed NetHack 3.1 for X11.
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- From time to time, some depraved individual out there in netland sends a
- particularly intriguing modification to help out with the game. The Gods of
- the Dungeon sometimes make note of the names of the worst of these miscreants
- in this, the list of Dungeoneers:
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- Richard Addison Eric Hendrickson Mike Passaretti
- Michael Allison Bruce Holloway Pat Rankin
- Tom Almy Barton House Eric S. Raymond
- Ken Arromdee Richard P. Hughey Frederick Roeber
- Eric Backus Ari Huttunen John Rupley
- John S. Bien John Kallen Carl Schelin
- Ralf Brown Del Lamb Olaf Seibert
- Ross Brown Greg Laskin Kevin Sitze
- David Cohrs Johnny Lee Eric R. Smith
- Jean-Christophe Collet Tim Lennan Kevin Smolkowski
- Steve Creps Merlyn LeRoy Michael Sokolov
- Kevin Darcy Steve Linhart Stephen Spackman
- Matthew Day Ken Lorber Andy Swanson
- Joshua Delahunty Dean Luick Kevin Sweet
- Bill Dyer Benson I. Margulies Scott R. Turner
- Mike Engber Pierre Martineau Steve VanDevender
- Jochen Erwied Roland McGrath Janet Walz
- Mike Gallop Norm Meluch Hao-yang Wang
- David Gentzel Rob Menke Jon W{tte
- Mark Gooderum Deron Meranda Tom West
- David Hairston Bruce Mewborne Paul Winner
- Timo Hakulinen Izchak Miller Gregg Wonderly
- Michael Hamel Gil Neiger
- Jonathan Handler Greg Olson
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