philipr@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Philip Rhoades) writes:
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>What do you actually do with nethack?

What the name says, you hack nets with it.  Nethack is the program
that all the famous hackers (or crackers) use to break into CIA,
Pentagon, KGB, and computerized dating systems.  A few hours with
nethack, and even a complete ignoramus can become the #1 enemy of
world peace!

Just kidding.  Nethack is a game.  You have rooms on different levels,
corridors between rooms, staircases between levels, hidden doors,
traps, monsters that want to eat you, shops where you can buy, sell,
and steal things, and so on.  I think there is some goal in the game,
but I had enough time just trying to survive so I never bothered about
it.

I prefer programming and/or tetris and/or minesweeper myself, but
nethack can be pretty fun too.

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