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.\" $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6.0 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.244 $ $NHDT-Date: 1522929037 2018/04/05 11:50:37 $
.\" $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6.0 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.245 $ $NHDT-Date: 1522961296 2018/04/05 20:48:16 $
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and Dynahack by \fBTung Nguyen\fP. Some of those variants continue to be
developed, maintained, and enjoyed by the community to this day.
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At the beginning of development for what would eventually get released
as 3.6.0, the development team consisted of \fBWarwick Allison\fP,
\fBMichael Allison\fP, \fBKen Arromdee\fP,
\fBDavid Cohrs\fP, \fBJessie Collet\fP,
\fBKen Lorber\fP, \fBDean Luick\fP, \fBPat Rankin\fP,
\fBMike Stephenson\fP, \fBJanet Walz\fP, and \fBPaul Winner\fP.
Leading up to the release of 3.6.0 in early 2015, new members
\fBSean Hunt\fP, \fBPasi Kallinen\fP, and \fBDerek S. Ray\fP
joined the NetHack development team.
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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 the process of debugging it as a suitable release,
@@ -4243,43 +4233,65 @@ 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.
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In November 2014, preparation began for the release of NetHack 3.6. The 3.6
version merges work done by the development team since the previous release
with some of the beloved community patches. Many bugs were fixed and a
large amount of code was restructured.
In January 2015, preparation began for the release of NetHack 3.6.
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At the beginning of development for what would eventually get released
as 3.6.0, the development team consisted of \fBWarwick Allison\fP,
\fBMichael Allison\fP, \fBKen Arromdee\fP,
\fBDavid Cohrs\fP, \fBJessie Collet\fP,
\fBKen Lorber\fP, \fBDean Luick\fP, \fBPat Rankin\fP,
\fBMike Stephenson\fP, \fBJanet Walz\fP, and \fBPaul Winner\fP.
In early 2015, ahead of the release of 3.6.0, new members
\fBSean Hunt\fP, \fBPasi Kallinen\fP, and \fBDerek S. Ray\fP
joined the NetHack development team.
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The 3.6 versions of the game are special in a particular way. Near the end of
the development of 3.6.0, one of the significant inspirations for many of
the humorous and fun features found in the game, author Terry Pratchett,
passed away. The 3.6 versions of the game include a tribute to him.
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3.6.0 was released in December 2015, and merged work done by the development
team since the release of 3.4.3 with some of the beloved community
patches. Many bugs were fixed and some code was restructured.
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In 2018, several hundred bug fixes for 3.6.0 and some new features
were assembled and released as NetHack 3.6.1. The development team at
the time of release of 3.6.1 consisted of
\fBWarwick Allison\fP,\fBMichael Allison\fP, \fBKen Arromdee\fP,
\fBDavid Cohrs\fP, \fBJessie Collet\fP, \fBPasi Kallinen\fP,
\fBKen Lorber\fP, \fBDean Luick\fP, \fBPatric Mueller\fP,
\fBPat Rankin\fP, \fBDerek S. Ray\fP, \fBAlex Smith\fP,
\fBMike Stephenson\fP, \fBJanet Walz\fP, and \fBPaul Winner\fP.
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The development team, as well as \fBSteve VanDevender\fP and
\fBKevin Smolkowski\fP ensured that NetHack 3.6 continued to operate on
\fBKevin Smolkowski\fP, ensured that NetHack 3.6 continued to operate on
various Unix flavors and maintained the X11 interface.
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\fBKen Lorber\fP, \fBHaoyang Wang\fP, \fBPat Rankin\fP, and \fBDean Luick\fP
maintained the port of NetHack 3.6 for Mac.
maintained the port of NetHack 3.6 for Mac OSX.
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\fBMichael Allison\fP, \fBDerek S. Ray\fP, \fBYitzhak Sapir\fP,
\fBAlex Kompel\fP, and \fBDion Nicolaas\fP maintained the port of
\fBMichael Allison\fP, \fBDavid Cohrs\fP, \fBBarton House\fP,
\fBPasi Kallinen\fP, \fBAlex Kompel\fP, \fBDion Nicolaas\fP,
\fBDerek S. Ray\fP and \fBYitzhak Sapir\fP maintained the port of
NetHack 3.6 for Microsoft Windows.
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The 3.6 development team consisting of
\fBMichael Allison\fP, \fBWarwick Allison\fP, \fBKen Arromdee\fP,
\fBDavid Cohrs\fP, \fBJessie Collet\fP, \fBSean Hunt\fP,
\fBPasi Kallinen\fP, \fBKen Lorber\fP, \fBDean Luick\fP, \fBPat Rankin\fP,
\fBMike Stephenson\fP, \fBDerek S. Ray\fP, \fBJanet Walz\fP, and
\fBPaul Winner\fP
released 3.6.1 as a bug fix release in January 2016.
\fBPat Rankin\fP attempted to keep the VMS port running for NetHack 3.6.1,
hindered by limited access. \fBKevin Smolkowski\fP has updated and tested it
for the most recent version of OpenVMS (V8.4 as of this writing) on Alpha
and Integrity (aka Itanium aka IA64) but not VAX.
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\fBRay Chason\fP resurrected the msdos port for 3.6.1 and contributed the
necessary updates to the community at large.
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The official NetHack web site is maintained by \fBKen Lorber\fP at http://www.nethack.org/.
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SHOUT-OUTS
SPECIAL THANKS
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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.
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On behalf of the NetHack community, thank you very much to
\fBM. Drew Streib\fP, \fBPasi Kallinen\fP and \fBRobin Bandy\fP.
On behalf of the NetHack community, thank you very much once
again to \fBM. Drew Streib\fP, \fBPasi Kallinen\fP and \fBRobin Bandy\fP
for providing publci NetHack servers at nethack.alt.org and devnull.net
and/or for hosting annual NetHack tournaments.
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