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Atari ST - 2026

NetHack

NetHack — screenshot 11 / 8
Genre
Adventure - RPG (2-D)
Year
2026
Language
Compiled C
Publisher
[no publisher]
Controls
Mouse
Distributor
Players
1
Developer
[n/a]
Resolution
High / VGA / RGB
Licensed from
Programmer(s)
Stephenson, Marvin
Country
Germany
Graphic Artist(s)
[unknown]
Software
English
Game design
[unknown]
Box/Instructions
English
Musician(s)
[n/a]
License
PD / Freeware / Shareware
Sound FX
Unknown (The)
Serial
Cover Artist(s)
ST Type
ST, STe, TT, Falcon030 / 2MB
MIDI
Version
5.0
Dump
Download
Number of Disks
HD Installable
Dump format
Zip-packed folder
Protection

OTHER VERSIONS WITH THE SAME TITLE (1)

INSTRUCTIONS

A revival of the classic Atari GEM port, updated to NetHack 5.0 and cross-compiled from Linux with the m68k-atari-mint toolchain against E_GEM 2.2.

Requirements
Atari ST-class machine (ST, STE, Mega ST/STE, TT, or Falcon) with at least 6 MB of RAM
GEM AES (TOS, MagiC, or FreeMiNT / XaAES)
640×480 with 16 colours minimum (VGA-class video)

Known to work
Hatari with TOS 2.06 (ST) and TOS 3.06 (TT)
MagiC 6.2 under MagiCMac (classic Macintosh)
MagiC under magic-on-linux

Currently known not to work
EmuTOS (to be investigated)

Installation
Unzip into a folder on Atari, then double-click nethack.prg. The archive is self-contained: GEM application, packed game data, GEM dialog resources, tile sheets for 1/4/5-plane displays, splash and tombstone images, default nethack.cnf, and empty levels/ and save/ directories.

By default the game starts in tile mode. Press F2 to toggle between tiles and ASCII.

TRIVIA (1)

Hardware

Version 3 requires 2Mb of RAM
Version 5 requires 6Mb of RAM