Download 3.6.1 Binaries for Macintosh

• Step 1: download

  Click on the below to start the download system. Depending on your browser you may need to right-click so that the file is saved to disk and not displayed.

  NetHack-361-mac-Term.pkg   (about 2.5M)   (MD5 sum: 67e57c92d6494fb428d8c35b51f78c69)
  NetHack 3.6.1 for Intel Macintosh running MacOS 10.7 Lion and later. This is a very traditional NetHack that runs in text mode from the command line or from Finder.
  

  
   
  

• Step 2: Mount

  If your browser did not mount the image, double-click on the downloaded file and MacOS will mount the image and start the Installer.

• Step 3: Install

  If the Installer has not started, double-click on the package file. The MacOS X Installer program will start and ask for the root password. The game will be installed under /usr/local/games and /Applications.

  If you will be running NetHack from the shell, edit the $PATH variable for your shell to include /usr/local/games/bin.

• Step 4a: Run from the Command Line

  Run nethack in a Terminal window. The man pages are in /usr/games/man and the Guidebook is in /usr/games/doc.

• Step 4b.: Run from Finder

  The following applications are in the Applications folder:
  • NetHackTerm       the game
  • NetHackGuidebook  the documentation
  • NetHackRecover    a program for recovering after a game or system crash

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