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  • Is NH 2.3 available anywhere?

    From Rollory@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 24 08:03:21 2022
    I'm pretty sure that was the version number. What I specifically
    remember from this was that it was a linear dungeon, like Hack, but at
    one point I ran into Larry, Curly, and Moe, who ran into the room
    punching each other. I was playing it on my a computer at my dad's
    workplace and I wasn't able to get back to it for various reasons.

    I want to find Larry, Curly, and Moe again. I want to see them punching
    each other.

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  • From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to Rollory on Fri Jun 24 14:58:24 2022
    On 24.06.2022 14:03, Rollory wrote:
    I'm pretty sure that was the version number. What I specifically
    remember from this was that it was a linear dungeon, like Hack, but at
    one point I ran into Larry, Curly, and Moe, who ran into the room
    punching each other. I was playing it on my a computer at my dad's
    workplace and I wasn't able to get back to it for various reasons.

    I want to find Larry, Curly, and Moe again. I want to see them punching
    each other.

    Searching the Internet provided this link: https://www.nethack.org/download/2.3e/
    Larry, Curly, and Moe are part of it,
    if the game gets compiled with the tag
    "STOOGES" defined.

    Janis

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  • From ken@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 24 15:50:59 2022
    In article <t94969$a02$[email protected]>, [email protected] says...

    I'm pretty sure that was the version number.

    Nethack 2.3e I think, from 1988.

    The source code is still availabel in a number of places eg:

    https://nethack.org/download/2.3e/

    But I think you will need to compile it yourself. It's been decades
    since I did that, and even then it was on a Sun workstation, so I'm not
    at all sure how hard it would be to get this working.

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  • From B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson@21:1/5 to Rollory on Fri Jun 24 18:49:47 2022
    On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 08:03:21 -0400, Rollory wrote:

    I'm pretty sure that was the version number. What I specifically
    remember from this was that it was a linear dungeon, like Hack, but at
    one point I ran into Larry, Curly, and Moe, who ran into the room
    punching each other. I was playing it on my a computer at my dad's
    workplace and I wasn't able to get back to it for various reasons.

    I want to find Larry, Curly, and Moe again. I want to see them punching
    each other.

    https://web.archive.org/web/19990429071841/http://pinky.wtower.com/nethack/download.shtml

    Scroll down to the bottom of the page. Binary compare of nh23e.zip is
    identical to the archive I have stored since its release.

    Supersede because I forgot to add the checksums:

    MD5: e13b136505ba87487bb639b0d48d682c *NH23E.ZIP
    SHA256: 0bd621367729c0c89fbb5463a79b5a42652eda5d6caa2c61861f9b2e1dc06d7d *NH23E.ZIP

    BeAr
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  • From Pat Rankin@21:1/5 to B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson on Fri Jun 24 14:38:16 2022
    On Friday, June 24, 2022 at 9:49:50 AM UTC-7, B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson wrote:
    Scroll down to the bottom of the page. Binary compare of nh23e.zip is identical to the archive I have stored since its release.

    All nethack versions prior to 3.2.3 (which was a source-only release
    made at the same time as source and binary releases for 3.3.0)
    suffer from a Y2K bug in their scoreboard file ('record') handling.

    Setting the system's clock back to 198x or 199x should avoid the
    problem. Unfortunately really old versions decided whether a save
    or bones file was compatible with the executable by comparing
    their file modification timestamps so that may not be as trivial a
    workaround as it sounds.

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