Comment on Is there any free game like net hack ?
palordrolap@fedia.io 21 hours agoAs a hint for where to get the first one, hack is available in the bsdgames package on Debian and derived Linuxes, so I assume versions can be had for most distros. It might even be available for Windows and Mac too what with WSL, and the fact that MacOS is a BSD derivative.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
I use macOS, so I was curious. The official build is up to 5.0.0 but nobody’s managed to get it running on Mac past 3.6.0 or 3.6.6. Which is kinda weird. But I’m not in that big of a hurry to play it.
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 16 hours ago
Pretty sure that’s for NetHack, not Hack.
palordrolap@fedia.io 18 hours ago
Not sure, but we may be talking about different programs. BSDgames'
hackdoesn't seem to have a version number that I can find. There's nothing in the changelog, and the command doesn't have anything like a-v/--versioncommand line switchIn fact, the closest to any kind of versioning that I can find are dates in the year 1985, both in the
manpage as well as in the strings in the executable itself.The
bsdgamespackage itself has a version number, but that doesn't strictly apply to the games themselves. (Especially since that's 2.17-35 for me, which is nothing like the numbers you gave.)The program shouldn't be any more than internal logic and terminal calls anyway, so I can't imagine it would be difficult to patch, so either we are talking about different programs, or it's not considered important enough to repair.