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- Behold, mortal, the origins of Hack Lite...
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- The original HACK was written by Jay Fenlason with help from Kenny
- Woodland, Mike Thome and Jon Payne.
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- Andries Brouwer did a major re-write and published (at least) two
- versions (1.0.2 and 1.0.3) to the Usenet.
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- PC HACK 3.61 was an MSDOS(tm) version of HACK 1.0.3. The PC
- implementation was done in Microsoft(tm) C by Don Kneller and
- modified by Ken Arromdee.
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- Amiga HACK 1.0.3D was an Amiga version of UNIX HACK 1.0.3. The
- Amiga port was performed by John A. Toebes, VIII, with the
- assistance of other members of the Software Distillery.
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- Hack Lite v1.0.0 was a merged version of PC HACK and Amiga Hack,
- created by Alan Beale and John Toebes, incorporating many
- performance and playability improvements.
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- Meanwhile, in another part of the dungeon, Mike Stephenson and Ken
- Arromdee created NetHack from PC HACK and UNIX HACK, incorporating
- many modifications and features made by the above, as well as the
- following honored hackers:
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- Scott R. Turner Tom Almy John S. Bien
- Gil Neiger Ralf Brown Eric S. Raymond
- Eric Backus Roland McGrath Greg Laskin
- Bruce Holloway Richard P. Hughey Kevin Sweet
- Steve Creps Olaf Seibert
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- Hack Lite v2.0.0 (and beyond) for the Amiga and the IBM PC was
- developed by Alan Beale from Hack Lite v1.0.0 and NetHack 2.2, and
- will surely remain the last word in hackery until v3.0.0.
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- Version 1 of the HackInstall program was developed by John Toebes.
- HackInstall, version 2, and HackConfig were written by Jim Cooper.
- The HackInstall archive extraction code was based on code by
- Yooichi Tagawa. The HackIcon utility was written by Doug Walker.
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- Thanks to Tim Friest and Don Withey for InstallBeep, and to Jeff
- Lee for the icons and the death scene. Also thanks to all the
- Hack Lite beta testers, and especially to Tim Jordan, who improved
- the monster icons, and suggested many other useful enhancements.
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