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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. Later, he 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 3.0.
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- Olaf Seibert ported NetHack 2.3 and 3.0 to the Amiga.
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- Eric R. Smith ported NetHack 3.0 to the Atari.
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- Timo Hakulinen ported NetHack 3.0 to OS/2.
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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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- Tom Almy Bruce Holloway Izchak Miller
- Ken Arromdee Richard P. Hughey Gil Neiger
- Eric Backus Del Lamb Eric S. Raymond
- John S. Bien Greg Laskin John Rupley
- Ralf Brown Steve Linhart Kevin Sweet
- Jean-Christophe Collet Benson I. Margulies Scott R. Turner
- Steve Creps Roland McGrath Janet Walz
- Eric Hendrickson Bruce Mewborne
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