[Gllug] Downright fun

Nix nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Sat Mar 15 20:38:15 UTC 2003


On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, David Damerell spake:
> NetHack is a real game - <http://www.nethack.org> - one of the oldest
> pieces of free software which is still actively developed.

Less a piece of software than a collection of wonderfully crafted easter
eggs. Everything affects everything else, and if you're not good at
lateral thinking you will die almost at once. :)

> discussion of real playing challenges - albeit ones so difficult, in a
> game that's already difficult, that I think you'd have to be barmy to
> try them. :-)

They were probably driven barmy by reading the (easy to read but oh so
ugly) nethack source for too long. :)

-- 
#ifdef USE_ISPTS_FLAG
		} else {	/* else pty, not pts */
#endif

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