NetHack 3.4.3, NAO version, for OSX

This repository contains a fork of the nethack.alt.org repository altered for OSX installation.

Automated installation

The purpose of this repository is to allow a more playable (i.e. heavily patched, but not in a play-altering way) version of Nethack to be easily installed via the Homebrew package manager. Tap my repository of formulae with

% brew tap ffleming/formulae

and then install nethack with

% brew install nethack-nao

Manual installation

1. Clone the repo

   % git clone git@github.com:ffleming/nethack-3.4.3-nao-osx.git
   

2. Enter the repo

   % cd nethack-3.4.3-nao-osx
   

3. Setup (no autoconf here!)

   % sh sys/unux/setup.sh l
   

4. Build

   % make
   

5. Install

   % sudo make install
   

6. Don't forget the manpages!

   % sudo make manpages
   

7. Symlink the nethack binary

   % sudo ln -s /opt/nethack/nethack /usr/bin/nethack
   

New changes

• Necessary alterations for compiling on OSX
• Install to /opt/nethack
• Define SHELL to allow use of ! to drop to a shell
• A patch against vanilla nethack 3.4.3 for use by Homebrew via brew install nethack
• Manpages install to /usr/share/man/man6
• Use the data librarian (define DLB) for a cleaner install
• You can now pass --version to the nethack binary to print out version information.

The patch

Created with

% diff --exclude=.git* --exclude=*.diff --exclude=*.patch --exclude=Makefile -rupN "$VANILLA_DIR/" "$PATCHED_DIR/" > "$PATCH_FILENAME"

Changes implemented by NAO

• Fixed several bugs:
  • C343-19 Dipping acid in a fountain may not destroy the acid. (Patric Mueller)
  • C343-52 Worn or wielded objects destroyed by dipping into lit potions of oil are not handled properly (Patric Mueller)
  • C343-74 Entering a long running, uninterruptible command after stoning starts will kill you. (Patric Mueller)
  • C343-98 Reset stored ID of quest leader when undead-turned, allowing #chat to work properly. (Steve Melenchuk)
  • C343-100 Game may crash if thrown potion hits bars before a monster. (Patric Mueller)
  • C343-171 Silver weapon damage message is sometimes missing when hero is polymorphed (Patric Mueller)
  • C343-172 Crash could occur when monster uses potion or food to cure stoning or confusion. (Ray Chason)
  • C343-179 If a monster is killed or tamed while over water (or by a drawbridge) while carrying a potion of acid, the game may panic. (Patric Mueller)
  • C343-189 Temple donations and protection lost to gremlin attack interact incorrectly. (Patric Mueller)
  • C343-198 Playing in a 20 or 21 line window can cause the game to crash.
  • C343-218 Applying a wielded cream pie can crash the game.
  • C343-231 Time is distorted while sinking into lava. (Patric Mueller)
  • C343-235 Casting spell of protection gives incorrect message if hero is swallowed or in rock. (Patric Mueller)
  • C343-268 Used up potion of acid may end up in bones file. (Patric Mueller)
  • C343-275 If a lit, wielded, candle or potion of oil burns out, the game may crash.
  • C343-276 If a figurine auto-transforms while wielded or worn, the game may crash.
  • C343-317 Bones data can contain odd characters from player's dogname, catname, or fruit options; this can cause odd terminal-dependent behavior.
  • C343-320 Reading a scroll of mail breaks illiterate conduct.
  • C343-324 Cutting a long worm in two will crash the game if the cut takes the worm to 1 HP or if long worms had become extinct. (Patric Mueller)
  • C343-349 An identify scroll is wasted if space is typed and steps off the end of the inventory list. (Steve Melenchuk)
  • C343-439 Running NetHack in a terminal window with more than 255 rows or columns produces display errors. (Patric Mueller)
  • SC343-11 It's possible to easily find the identity of a high priest on the Astral plane.
  • SC343-12 Hero using telepathy can abuse Call on the Astral Plane.
  • SC343-20 Hangup save while picking up gold in a shop may duplicate the gold. (Patric Mueller)
• Added the Curses windowport, with a fix for monster detection not waiting for --more--.
• Added boolean option quiver_fired (Patch by Jukka Lahtinen)
• Sortloot (by Jukka Lahtinen), with more sorting types from UnNetHack (by Patric Mueller)
• Pressing cmd key at direction prompt selects previously selected direction. (Patric Mueller, unnethack r844)
• The impossible-warning tells to save, not quit.
• Livelog reporting (for IRC, etc)
• Whereis-file user tracking, from SporkHack, with minor changes.
• Random player statues takes names from top1000, not top10
• Several new T-shirt messages, random epitaphs and engravings, hallucinatory monsters
• Changed 'C' to present a menu, and added old_C_behaviour boolean option to restore vanilla 3.4.3 monster christening behaviour
• Dungeon colors -patch (Pasi Kallinen)
• Changed 'X' to toggle twoweapon instead of trying to enter explore mode
• Extinct and Showborn -patch (Jukka Lahtinen)
• Paranoid Quit -patch
• Window edge -patch (Pasi Kallinen)
• Dumplog -patch (Jukka Lahtinen), with some minor changes
• Menucolors -patch (Pasi Kallinen)
• HitPoint Monitor -patch (Ralph Churchill) (removed)
• Simple Mail -patch, from dgamelaunch
• Extended Logfile -patch (Aardvark Joe), with some small changes
• A boolean option 'bones' to disable bone-file loading.
• Messagetype-option -patch (Pasi Kallinen)
• A patch to allow server admin to notify players.
• A patch to allow NetHack output special escape codes (vt_tiledata -boolean option)
• fcntl locking -patch
• use_darkgray -patch (Michael Deutschmann)
• Show BUC -patch (Pasi Kallinen)
• Show Sym -patch (Pasi Kallinen)
• While Helpless -patch (Pasi Kallinen)
• A patch to make RNG prediction harder
• Make NetHack assume the clearscreen escape code is always available, instead of complaining.
• Fix 100% CPU usage when terminal closed at a --more--- prompt. (tty windowport)
• Make cursor keys not escape out of a text entry prompt (tty windowport)
• Added Pickup thrown -patch (Roderick Schertler)
• Added a modified version of key rebinding -patch (Jason Dorje Short)
• Added a generic item use menu (from AceHack, via UnNetHack)
• Added monster targeting -patch (Pasi Kallinen)
• Force a screen redraw every 2k turns after the previous screen redraw.
• Fixed farlooking at food items in curses windowport.
• Prevent the Book of the Dead from being destroyed when falling into (or walking over) lava without fire resistance. (Steve Melenchuk)
• Added botl_updates option to prevent status line updates, and extended command #updatestatus to force an update.
• Added hp_notify option to turn on HP change notifications in the message lines, and hp_notify_fmt to configure the notification format.
• Changed TTY msghistory maximum to 400.
• Added Statuscolors -patch. (From UnNetHack)
• Added hitpointbar (from UnNetHack)
• Added boolean option msgtype_regex, if true, MSGTYPE-lines use regular expressions instead of globbing.
• Added boolean option apexception_regex, if true, AUTOPICKUP_EXCEPTION-lines use regular expressions insteaed of globbing.
• Show shop prices when walking over the items in the shop. Turn off with show_shop_prices option. (from UnNetHack)
• Added item_use_menu boolean option, to turn off the generic item use menu used via inventory.
• Added msg_wall_hits boolean option. If true, mentions in the message area whenever you walk against a wall. Useful for blind players.
• Added item glyphs (colored symbols) to tty menus. (from UnNetHack) Boolean option menu_glyphs to turn them on and off.
• Fixed option parsing causing buffer overflow. (Found by Matthew Daley)
• Write extra info file for dgamelaunch use.
• Prevent artifact naming.
• Fix several crashes in case makemon() returns null. (From UnNetHack r1067)
• Record HUP exploits into a file.
• Fix some crashes related to displaying ball/chain and beam glyphs.
• Fix a crash with hitpointbar. (From UnNetHack)
• New boolean option "hilite_hidden_stairs", will try to show item with red background, if stairs are underneath it.
• New boolean option "hilite_obj_piles", will try to show item piles with blue background.
• Bugfix: prevent dangling pointer when applying a container that might have been destroyed (Patric Mueller)
• Added "View discoveries" -option to the #call menu
• Added MONSTERCOLOR config option (From UnNetHack)
• Made STATUSCOLOR support exact numbers, eg. STATUSCOLOR=hp.1:red&inverse,hp<8:red,hp>50:grey
• Fix TTY crashing when a location has more than 32k item stacks
• Fix impossible() giving out faulty values (Pat Rankin)
• Curses: Fix 100% CPU usage when terminal was lost at DYWYPI prompt
• Curses: Fix selecting parts of multiple stacks (Alexander Gabriel)
• Prevent perm -file lock from staying around when terminal is closed at "Destroy old game" -prompt.
• Fix a crash when restoring a game when riding and detecting monsters. (Patric Mueller)
• Fix segfault when teleporting onto a sink while equipping levitation boots. (found by Alex Smith)
• Fix a crash when picking up an unpaid object from a location shared between two shops. (Patric Mueller)
• Fix scroll of charging not working when used via item_use_menu.
• Experimental support for UTF8 graphics. (Patric Mueller)
• Implement menu_search for windowtype:tty
• Curses: Actually show the "Destroy old game" -prompt
• Fix stat abuse of gauntlets of dexterity and helm of brilliance (by Alex Smith)
• Multiple possible bones files per level (via UnNetHack)