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history/Credits: aeb's Hack

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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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@@ -3323,7 +3323,7 @@ The default name and location of the configuration file varies on different
operating systems.\\
%.lp ""
On Unix, Linux and Mac OS X it is \mbox{``.nethackrc''} in the user's home
On UNIX, Linux and Mac OS X it is \mbox{``.nethackrc''} in the user's home
directory. The file may not exist, but it is a normal ASCII text file and
can be created with any text editor.\\
@@ -5922,9 +5922,18 @@ Kenny Woodland}, {\it Mike Thome}, and {\it Jon Payne}.
%.pg
\medskip
\nd {\it Andries Brouwer\/} did a major re-write, transforming {\it Hack\/}
into a very different game, and published (at least) three versions (1.0.1,
1.0.2, and 1.0.3) for UNIX machines to the Usenet.
\nd {\it Andries Brouwer\/} did a major re-write while at
Stichting Mathematisch Centrum (now Centrum Wiskunde \& Informatica),
transforming Hack into a very different game.
He published the Hack source code for use on UNIX
systems by posting that to Usenet
newsgroup {\it net.sources\/} (later renamed {\it comp.sources})
releasing version 1.0 in December of 1984, then versions 1.0.1, 1.0.2,
and finally 1.0.3 in July of 1985.
Usenet newsgroup {\it net.games.hack\/} (later
renamed {\it rec.games.hack}, eventually replaced
by {\it rec.games.roguelike.nethack})
was created for discussing it.
%.pg
\medskip
@@ -5947,6 +5956,9 @@ incorporating many of the added features, and produced {\it NetHack\/} version
1.4 in 1987.
He then coordinated a cast of thousands in enhancing and debugging
{\it NetHack\/} 1.4 and released {\it NetHack\/} versions 2.2 and 2.3.
Like Hack, they were released by posting their source code to Usenet where
they remained available in various archives accessible
via {\it ftp\/} and {\it uucp\/} after expiring from the newsgroup.
%.pg
\medskip
@@ -6238,8 +6250,8 @@ In January 2015, preparation began for the release of NetHack 3.6.
%.pg
\medskip
At the beginning of development for what would eventually get released
as 3.6.0, the {\it NetHack Development Team} consisted of {\it Warwick Allison},
At the beginning of development for what would eventually get released as
3.6.0, the {\it NetHack Development Team} consisted of {\it Warwick Allison},
{\it Michael Allison}, {\it Ken Arromdee},
{\it David Cohrs}, {\it Jessie Collet},
{\it Ken Lorber}, {\it Dean Luick}, {\it Pat Rankin},
@@ -6265,7 +6277,7 @@ patches. Many bugs were fixed and some code was restructured.
\medskip
The {\it NetHack Development Team}, as well as {\it Steve VanDevender} and
{\it Kevin Smolkowski}, ensured that {\it NetHack\/} 3.6 continued to
operate on various Unix flavors and maintained the X11 interface.
operate on various UNIX flavors and maintained the X11 interface.
%.pg
\medskip