history/Credits: aeb's Hack
Give an implied explanation for the seemingly odd copyright info in the source files and the run-time startup banner. The extra Hack version number, the release dates, and the newsgroup creation are from https://homepages.cwi.nl/~aeb/games/hack/hack.html which is the "Brouwer's /Hack/ page at CWI" external link near the end of Andries Brouwer's Wikipedia page.
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@@ -5,9 +5,14 @@ Behold, mortal, the origins of NetHack...
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Jay Fenlason wrote the original Hack, with help from Kenny Woodland,
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Mike Thome, and Jon Payne.
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Andries Brouwer did a major re-write, transforming Hack into a very different
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game, and published (at least) three versions (1.0.1, 1.0.2, and 1.0.3) for
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UNIX(tm) machines to the Usenet.
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Andries Brouwer did a major re-write while at Stichting Mathematisch Centrum
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(now Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica), transforming Hack into a very different
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game. He published the Hack source code for use on UNIX(tm) systems by
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posting that to Usenet newsgroup net.sources (later renamed comp.sources)
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releasing version 1.0 in December of 1984, then versions 1.0.1, 1.0.2, and
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finally 1.0.3 in July of 1985. Usenet newsgroup net.games.hack (later
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renamed rec.games.hack, eventually replaced by rec.games.roguelike.nethack)
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was created for discussing it.
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Don G. Kneller ported Hack 1.0.3 to Microsoft(tm) C and MS-DOS(tm), producing
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PC HACK 1.01e, added support for DEC Rainbow graphics in version 1.03g, and
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@@ -20,7 +25,9 @@ producing ST Hack 1.03.
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Mike Stephenson merged these various versions back together, incorporating
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many of the added features, and produced NetHack version 1.4 in 1987. He
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then coordinated a cast of thousands in enhancing and debugging NetHack 1.4
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and released NetHack versions 2.2 and 2.3.
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and released NetHack versions 2.2 and 2.3. Like Hack, they were released by
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posting their source code to Usenet where they remained available in various
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archives accessible via ftp and uucp after expiring from the newsgroup.
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Later, Mike coordinated a major re-write of the game, heading a team which
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included Ken Arromdee, Jean-Christophe Collet, Steve Creps, Eric Hendrickson,
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