NetHack 5.0.0 for macOS (release 7)

Added

• View → Tile Set → Import... copies a tile set into the app's folder, so it's still there after a restart.
• The Tile Set menu lists every tile set in the folder that holds .nethackrc, and Show Tile Sets Folder opens it.
• The tile_file option chooses the tile set at launch.
• Game → Edit Options File... opens .nethackrc in your text editor.
• View → Bigger Text and Smaller Text change the size of messages, stats, the inventory and menus.
• The font_size_message option sets the starting text size.
• Drag the inventory sidebar's left edge to make it wider or narrower.

Changed

• After a crash, the next launch offers to recover the game instead of only to destroy it.
• A tile set that can't be used says why.
• The tile size no longer has to be in a tile set's file name.

Fixed

• A map tooltip no longer stays on screen and keeps the app open after saving and quitting.
• Fewer crashes: most errors in the app's own windows no longer end the game.

Requires macOS 12 or later. See the install instructions for how to open it the first time.

NetHack 5.0.0 for macOS (release 6)

Added

• Blessed items are green and cursed items red in menus and the inventory sidebar.
• Menus and the inventory sidebar show the colors and highlighting set by the menucolors option.
• The map marks peaceful monsters and your steed.
• The map marks item piles and monsters you sense but can't see.
• Hunger, encumbrance and status conditions show as colored badges, with deadly ones in red.
• An arrow next to a stat, AC or level shows for a few turns when it goes up or down.
• When a game ends, a dialog offers to start a new game or quit.

Changed

• Blue, green and brown are easier to tell apart on the ASCII map.
• Menu headings are larger, and column headings like the spell menu's line up with their columns.

Requires macOS 12 or later. See the install instructions for how to open it the first time.

NetHack 5.0.0 for macOS (release 5)

Added

• An inventory sidebar lists everything you carry; click an item to choose what to do with it.
• Click an item in the Wearing panel to choose what to do with it.

Changed

• Commands like wield and quaff show a menu of suitable items, and typing any item's letter still works.

Requires macOS 12 or later. See the install instructions for how to open it the first time.

NetHack 5.0.0 for macOS (release 4)

Changed

• The app is now called NetHack 5.

Fixed

• The Wearing panel is an even grid, with worn items drawn at full size.

Requires macOS 12 or later. See the install instructions for how to open it the first time.

NetHack 5.0.0 for macOS (release 3)

Changed

• Menus are redrawn: lists you pick from show each item's picture and letter, and read-only lists are text you can select and copy.
• Short questions show one button per answer, labelled with its key.
• The direction, extended command (#) and typed-answer prompts take the same keys as the terminal.
• The menu bar is reorganised into clearer groups.
• Many painted tiles are redrawn closer to the classic tiles, and wand and spell beams are sharper and easier to tell apart.
• Water, lava, ice, air and cloud look calmer across large areas.
• The download is about 30 MB smaller.

Fixed

• Menu bar commands do what they say.
• Monsters and objects on lit floor are drawn over the floor instead of on black.
• Walls fill their whole square, with no dark gap beside them.
• The click that brings the window to the front no longer also moves your character.
• Clicking a distant unexplored square no longer starts travel there.
• Closing a message window with Return, space or Esc no longer also answers the next question.
• Read-only lists such as the dungeon overview wait for you to close them, so the tombstone no longer opens on top.
• The app no longer freezes when you hover over the map after a game ends.
• Character names follow the terminal's length and character rules.

Requires macOS 12 or later. See the install instructions for how to open it the first time.

NetHack 5.0.0 for macOS (release 2)

• The app is now called NetHack and has a new bundle ID, io.github.glorat.nethack. Saved games, scores and settings from release 5.0.0-1 don't carry over. To keep your saved games and scores, open NetHack 5.0.0-2 once, quit it, then copy the nethackdir folder (and .nethackrc, if you have one) from ~/Library/Containers/net.hack.cocoa.NetHack5/Data to ~/Library/Containers/io.github.glorat.nethack/Data, replacing what's there.
• The About box, privacy policy and links now point to this project.

Requires macOS 12 or later. See the install instructions for how to open it the first time.

NetHack 5.0.0 for macOS (release 1)

First release, porting the NetHack Cocoa interface from NetHack 3.6.6 to NetHack 5.0.0.

• New painted tile sets at 64px and 128px; 128px is the default. The classic 16px tiles are still available.
• Tiles are drawn over the floor, water or other terrain beneath them.
• Map zoom with ⌘=, ⌘− and ⌘0, or pinch on a trackpad.
• Universal app for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
• The role picker is skipped when your options already choose role, race, gender and alignment.

Requires macOS 12 or later. See the install instructions for how to open it the first time.