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This gets the history started. Please review/correct/improve and
fill in the various <FIXME> items I've flagged.
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NetHack History file for release 3.4
NetHack History file for release 3.6
Behold, mortal, the origins of NetHack...
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Despite that constantly growing bug list, 3.3 proved stable enough to last
for more than a year and a half.
The 3.4 development team initially consisted of Michael Allison, Ken Arromdee,
David Cohrs, Jessie Collet, Kevin Hugo, Ken Lorber, Dean Luick, Pat Rankin,
Mike Stephenson, Janet Walz, and Paul Winner, with Warwick Allison joining
@@ -150,7 +149,69 @@ Amiga port of 3.5 after Janne Salmijarvi resurrected it for 3.3.1.
Christian `Marvin' Bressler maintained 3.5 for the Atari after he
resurrected it for 3.3.1.
There is a NetHack web site maintained by Ken Lorber at http://www.nethack.org/.
The release of NetHack 3.4.3 in December 2003 marked the beginning of a
long release hiatus. 3.4.3 proved to be a remarkably stable version that
provided continued enjoyment by the community for more than a decade. The
devteam slowly and quietly continued to work on the game behind the scenes
during the tenure of 3.4.3. It was during that same period that several new
variants emerged within the NetHack community. Notably sporkhack by
Derek S. Ray, unnethack by Patric Mueller, nitrohack and its successors
originally by Daniel Thaler and then by Alex Smith, and
Dynahack by Tung Nguyen. Some of those variants continue to be developed,
maintained, and enjoyed by the community to this day.
In September 2014, an interim snapshot of the code under development was
released publicly by other parties. Since that code was a work-in-progress
and had not gone through a period of debugging, it was decided that the
version numbers present on that code snapshot would be retired and never
used in an official NetHack release. An announcement was posted on the
devteam's official nethack.org website to that effect, stating that there
would never be a 3.4.4, 3.5, or 3.5.0 official release version.
In January 2015, preparation began for the release of NetHack 3.6.
At the beginning of development for what would eventually get released
as 3.6.0, the development team consisted of Michael Allison,
Warwick Allison, Ken Arromdee, David Cohrs, Jessie Collet, Ken Lorber,
Dean Luick, Pat Rankin, Mike Stephenson, Janet Walz, and Paul Winner.
Leading up to the release of 3.6.0 in early 2015, new members Sean Hunt,
Pasi Kallinen, and Derek S. Ray joined the NetHack development team.
3.6.0 <FIXME> - insert apprpriate description of 3.6.0 here
The development team, as well as Steve VanDevender and Kevin Smolkowski
ensured that NetHack 3.6.0 continued to operate on various Unix flavors
as well as maintaining the X11 interface.
Ken Lorber, Haoyang Wang, Pat Rankin, and Dean Luick maintained the port
of NetHack 3.6.0 for Mac.
Michael Allison, Derek S. Ray, Yitzhak Sapir, Alex Kompel, and David Cohrs
maintained the port of NetHack 3.6.0 for Microsoft Windows.
Jeff Bailey created and maintained a port of NetHack 3.6.0 for Chrome.
Alex Kompel maintained a port of NetHack 3.6.0 to Windows Phone. <FIXME>?
This version of the game is special in a particular way. Near the end of
the development of 3.6, one of the significant inspirations for many of the
humorous and fun features found in the game, author Terry Pratchett,
passed away. This version of the game is dedicated to <FIXME>
An official NetHack web site continues to be maintained by Ken Lorber at
http://www.nethack.org/.
--
SHOUT-OUTS
The devteam would like to give a special "shout-out" to thank the generous
people primarily responsible for the public NetHack servers available for
playing the game at nethack.alt.org and devnull.net. In addition to providing
a way for the public to play a game of NetHack from almost anywhere, they
have hosted annual NetHack tournaments for many, many years.
<FIXME> write up something for Robin, M. Drew Streib, Pasi Kallinen
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