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By K2 on February 22nd, 2020 at 5:40 pm EST
We’ve been busy over the last couple days making some improvements to the NetHack playing experience. Tangles just finished a significant upgrade of dgamelaunch (dgl) which is the menu system everyone goes through to select the NetHack game/variant they want to play. You’ll notice that all available variants are now on the landing page again. You can also set your config editor preference, and there’s a more robust system to transfer configs between servers and even between other players.
Even more recently, hterm was updated to the latest version (1.87). Along with bugfixes is support for true 24bit color rendering. There are a handful of variants we host that support this, including 370-hdf and UnNetHack (you can confirm this in UnNetHack by issuing the #show_colors command). Any of you having issues getting hterm to work, it’s most likely due to your browser’s cache still loading the old .js files – performing a hard refresh of the cache while having the hterm page loaded will resolve it (ctrl+F5 for chrome/firefox/edge). If you’re still having trouble, shoot me an email or hop onto IRC and ask for help.
EDIT – the missing cursor in hterm issue has been resolved, use ctrl+F5 to force refresh the hterm window to load the change/fix.
Enjoy the changes and upgrades all.
Tags: dgamelaunch, hterm, Nethack
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By K2 on January 1st, 2020 at 11:56 pm EST
Happy New Year everyone! Hope everyone had a nice end to the year and the decade.
A lot happened with NetHack in just the last month – two official releases in as many days in December 2019 (versions 3.6.3 and 3.6.4), and a development version of NetHack 3.7.0 was also made public during the same time. We’ve retired 363-hdf and are hosting 370-hdf as of a couple weeks ago. You can read all about it from this reddit post.
A handful of variants have also seen new version updates within the last several days (EvilHack, SpliceHack, notdNetHack), and a couple more are on the way so stay tuned. Happy new year!
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By K2 on December 1st, 2019 at 8:05 pm EST
Unfortunately all good things must come to an end. Just a bit more than 24 hours ago, The November NetHack Tournament for 2019 came to a close. Last years debut was a lot of fun, but this year was even better I think. The tournament was well received, a lot more people played this year, and we witnessed some amazing games and conducts achieved. A bit more in-depth review of the tournament can be found here, and an online survey can be filled out here.
Thanks to everyone who played, we hope you had a great time playing. And a special thanks to the friends I get to work with in making this tournament possible. Looking forward to TNNT 2020.
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By K2 on October 22nd, 2019 at 10:16 am EST
Well damn… made it to 19 years. Awesome :-) Happy 19th birthday Hardfought! It’ll be 20 years before we know it. Just crazy.
Other news – The November NetHack Tournament for 2019 is good to go and will kick off November 1st at midnight UTC. Be sure to visit the ‘Tournaments’ link under the NetHack menu for access to the TNNT page. New trophies and achievements this year, as well as some new custom content. Better scoring methods, less ‘scummable’ trophies, team limits, bug fixes, and so on. Public beta is currently open, so feel free to try out the new code, and please report any bugs you may find (we’ve found and fixed a few already).
Before I forget, and I should have posted about this a long time ago – JunetHack 2019 finished with player ‘Luxidream’ basically winning everything. Something like 40% of all ascensions were by him. Just… wow. Good going Luxidream!
Alright, that’s it for now. Will post again soon announcing the TNNT kick-off.
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