For the NetHack fans

[Didou]

All the adventure & addictiveness of Nethack now in a nice VGA package. I know I'll get my head chopped off by the purists such as Mic, but it's worth a try.

It works on Windows (DX), Linux & BeOS.

Features

mouse-driven interface (keyboard play also supported)
high-res, isometric graphics with real-time lighting
ease of play: autopilot, tooltip descriptions of game objects, and more
digitized sound effects
MIDI soundtrack (listen to some samples)
sound effects and keyboard commands are customizable
retains all NetHack features



System Requirements

For all versions:
386 or greater (Pentium recommended)
Display card capable of 800x600 resolution, 256 colors
Mouse
6 megabytes disk space

For the Windows version:
Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4 or 2000
DirectX 3.0 or greater
DirectX compatible display adapter
For sound effects and music: DirectSound compatible sound card

For the Linux and BeOS versions:
SDL libraries, available from www.libsdl.org
In Linux, MIDI and MP3 music are supported through external, configurable players

For the DOS version:
VESA compatible display adapter
Sound effects and music not supported

Executables
NetHack - Falcon's Eye
version 1.9.3 for Windows 5.8 Mb Everything you need to play under Windows. This package contains NetHack 3.3.1 with version 1.9.3 of the Falcon's Eye interface, all graphics, sounds and MIDI music, as well as an HTML manual.

NetHack - Falcon's Eye version 1.9.3 for Windows

Source Code
NetHack - Falcon's Eye
version 1.9.3 source code 8.3 Mb The source code to version 1.9.3 of NetHack - Falcon's Eye. This package contains the source code for the Windows, DOS and Linux versions, as well as all graphics, sounds or music. If you want to play under DOS, Linux or BeOS, download this package and compile the game. For Linux and BeOS, you also need SDL 1.2, which you can get at www.libsdl.org See also my compilation instructions.

NetHack - Falcon's Eye version 1.9.3 source code

Goodies
NetHack - Falcon's Eye
version 1.9.2 HTML manual The HTML manual to version 1.9.2 of NetHack - Falcon's Eye. The newest version of the manual comes with the game, but you can also browse this version online.
NetHack - Falcon's Eye
MP3 Music MP3 versions of music tracks from the game. They have far superior quality to the MIDI versions supplied with the game, unless you have an extremely good MIDI soundcard. These files are located on a different server (at www.sunpoint.net).

NetHack - Falcon's Eye version 1.9.2 HTML manual

NetHack - Falcon's Eye MP3 Music

 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Yeah, I chop your head off with blessed +4 Vorpal Blade

I've tried this, a long time ago though, and I didn't really like it

ASCII rules

 

[Phantasm66]

I downloaded this. Not because I could be arsed with any dwarfs or wizards or any of that muck, but because I wanted to look at the source code....

That probably makes me even sadder....