Anonymous edits have been disabled on the wiki. If you want to contribute please login or create an account.


Warning for game developers: PCGamingWiki staff members will only ever reach out to you using the official press@pcgamingwiki.com mail address.
Be aware of scammers claiming to be representatives or affiliates of PCGamingWiki who promise a PCGW page for a game key.

NetHack

From PCGamingWiki, the wiki about fixing PC games
Revision as of 18:28, 16 June 2020 by Auto Prod Bot (talk | contribs) (Updating infobox with StrategyWiki guide link)
This page is a stub: it lacks content and/or basic article components. You can help to expand this page by adding an image or additional information.
Dev general icon.svg
Although this product has been released, it remains under active development - information may change frequently and could be outdated or irrelevant.
NetHack
NetHack cover
Developers
The NetHack DevTeam
Release dates
DOS July 1987[1]
Mac OS (Classic) October 1989[2]
Linux 1992[3]
Windows 3.x March 1993[4]
Windows December 8, 2003[citation needed]
macOS (OS X) December 8, 2003[citation needed]
Taxonomy
Monetization Freeware
NetHack on HowLongToBeat
NetHack on IGDB
NetHack guide on StrategyWiki
NetHack on MobyGames
NetHack on Wikipedia

General information

Community wiki

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Official website
DRM-free
Windows
Mac App Store
Icon overlay.png
NetHack Cocoa.
macOS (OS X)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>\defaults.nh[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\sysconf[Note 1]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\NetHack\NetHack 3.6.2\Settings\
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Linux
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>\<user-id>-*.NetHack-saved-game[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Video

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
No sound.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
NetzHack
Japanese
JNetHack
Spanish
Spanish Nethack

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes Text
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using winevdm.
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Windows 3.x
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

  1. NetHack 1.3d - NetHack Wiki - last accessed on 2019-09-10
  2. NetHack 3.0.5 - NetHack Wiki - last accessed on 2019-09-10
    "A new port to the Mac is provided."
  3. NetHack (1992) Linux release dates - MobyGames - last accessed on 2020-01-01
  4. NetHack 3.1.1 - NetHack Wiki - last accessed on 2019-09-10
    "Windows NT is now supported in text mode for the first time"