Download NetHack 3.6.6 for Windows 8.x/10

• Step 0: Promise to read Step 2 before telling us the game will not start.

  Thank you.

• Step 1: download.

  (25-Jan-2021 NetHackW.exe updatated due to slow cursor positioning with farlook.)
  (21-Dec-2019 Binaries updated due to a bug with tiles_fit_to_screen.)
  Click on the link below to download NetHack. Depending on your browser you may need to right-click so that the file is saved to disk and not displayed.
  

  nethack-366-win-x86-1_25_2021.zip   (about 5M)   (SHA256 sum: c0b18d87495dea71e1302dfb00b319b7025fa4935ca6b78089c69ce1a2f358e3)
  Contains two executables - an Intel Win32 tty console executable and an Intel Win32 Graphical Interface executable. This may be used on Intel machines running Windows 8.x/10
  
  

  Download this file

  
   
  
  Note: File locations changed after 3.6.2. Details here.

• Step 2: unpack.

  These files can be unpacked with any standard unzipping utility, which should be used when you have set your current directory to the location where you want to place NetHack. Some people have attempted to run the game from inside an unzip utility - this will not work. You must extract the contents of the .zip file to a new folder and run the game from that folder. Do not remove (or copy) the executable from the folder (you can create a shortcut to it instead).

• Step 3: edit your personal configuration file.

  Edit %USERPROFILE%\NetHack\.nethackrc

  To confirm the location and names of files that NetHack cares about, issue the following command:
  

  • nethack --showpaths

  If you are using a non-U.S. keyboard arrangment, you may want adjust your keyboard handling using the "altkeyhandler" and/or "subkeyvalue" config file options. See the Guidebook for more information.

• Step 4: run.

  nethack.exe

  for the tty interface

  nethackw.exe

  for the graphical interface

  Save and bone files are compatible between these two executables.

  Please see this page for information on setting the window and font size.

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