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Glenn
I thought I'd share the cool news: you can now easily run NetHack (www.nethack.org) in the Terminal on OS X! (Of course, you can also run it on any non-OS X machine as a stand-alone app, but where's the geekery in that? )

To run NetHack on OS X, get it from http://homepage.mac.com/abwilliams/FileSharing.html

After it decompresses, put "Nethack" in /usr/local/bin (you'll need to sudo).
Put the contents of the "lib" directory into /usr/games/lib (again, sudo is needed).

And you're ready to go!

(For NetHack compiled for other systems, check www.nethack.org)

For those who don't know, NetHack is a classic dungeon-digging geek game along the lines of Rogue, Moria, et al. It is entirely text-based (you are a little "@" moving around, "%" is a piece of food, etc.) and is, I think, the ultimate example that a game doesn't need state-of-the-art graphics to be fun. NetHack is still being improved, although it is fully functional in its present state. They just keep adding cool stuff, making it (as far as I know) the longest continuously-developed computer game in existence. It was also a major inspiration for the game Diablo. Try it!

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aschaaf_86
Can you tell me the commands to do that?
I don't know how to move folders in the Terminal.

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