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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.
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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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- 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 Bruce Holloway Pat Rankin
- Tom Almy Richard P. Hughey Eric S. Raymond
- Ken Arromdee Ari Huttunen John Rupley
- Eric Backus Del Lamb Olaf Seibert
- John S. Bien Greg Laskin Kevin Sitze
- Ralf Brown Johnny Lee Eric R. Smith
- Jean-Christophe Collet Steve Linhart Kevin Smolkowski
- Steve Creps Ken Lorber Michael Sokolov
- Kevin Darcy Benson I. Margulies Stephen Spackman
- Matthew Day Pierre Martineau Andy Swanson
- Joshua Delahunty Roland McGrath Kevin Sweet
- Jochen Erwied Norm Meluch Scott R. Turner
- David Gentzel Bruce Mewborne Janet Walz
- Mark Gooderum Izchak Miller Jon Watte
- David Hairston Gil Neiger Tom West
- Timo Hakulinen Greg Olson Gregg Wonderly
- Eric Hendrickson Mike Passaretti
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