HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ubeh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (Brian Haines)
Subject: Me beating the game.
Summary: I WON I WON I WON!!! 
Keywords: I WON. 
Organization: Haines interface to NETHACK.
Distribution: World
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 00:49:46 GMT

Phwwww...Well, it has been a VERY long three weeks...An hour here, five there
and today is the final result.  +1 Stormy, +0 Trollsbane, +0 Excal, a couple
of wands with 0 or -1 charges...I cut it real close with them.  Gray dragon
scale mail, shield of reflection, cloak of protection, gauntlets of dex.  All
of which were +0. :(  I did not know what a wand was...so I zapped myself.  It
turned out to be cancellation.  My AC dropped (Raised?) by 20.  I was really
unhappy about that.  Armed with my trusty potion of pyralysis, I ventured
down to level 50....Went all the way back up to one (To map out my escape), 
and realized at about level 6 that I was no longer teleporting.  (The
intrinsic was no longer there)  SO....I had to find a level teleporter, and a 
ring of teleport control.  Once I had both, back I go to do some shopping 
for amulets.  I get to level 40 (Where he was), and I made a path with my
trusty pickaxe to his room.  I had a nice little path there, but there was
a gem in the way.."I'll just kick this out of my way..." *Kick*  "I'll get 
you my pretty..."  Shit I woke him up!  Now I have to fight before I was ready.
I manage to beat him up(Four times!), and get the amulet, then I went for the 
stairs.  I missed him 12 times with the potion!  "Screw this!"  So I kill him
again, and climb up to level 39.  Before I can get to the stairs(With out tele-
port, I can't get there all that quick)he arrives again.  I keep the amulet 
this time, and manage to get to the stairs before he kills me (again).  Two
amulets of Life saving, and a LOT of attempts I finaly hit him with the potion.
DRAT I'm frozen also...CTRL C,---Do you wish to quit? n , , Phew...it let me
go.  <, and I am at the next level....I went up to the castle level, and tried
to don my trusty ring of levatation...I can't remove my gloves.  I pray...
My god is not happy with me...Good by level 27.  I have a wand of cold...Let's
make a moat!  So I manage to get all the way around the castle on one wand.
Climb all the way up to level 1, and with my trusty ring of conflict I easily
beat the endlevel.  I get up to my alter...#offer i ....there is a thunderclap
in the background...DRAT wrong one... #offer u I get the bright light message
and I win.  With a Samuri, and crap for stuff...three weeks out of my already
busy life....and I win.  It's been worth it.

Advise to newbies...Hack well. ;)....And read the Spoiler file. :]





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*We'll know for the first time * Brian E. Haines                            *
*If we're Evil or Divine,      *       computer science major at large.     *
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*        -R.J. Dio             *                                            *
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Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: niranjan@sbgrad10.cs.sunysb.edu (Niranjan)
Subject: Ascended!
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 04:51:17 GMT

After 6 months of playing, my priest finally ascended! Surprisingly
this was not my best game (goodies-wise).

Score 1501002
AC -37 (all from Armor + protection from Crom when I prayed)
HP 136
Str 18/85, all other stats stunk
2 Amulets of life saving, ring of conflict, ring of levitation
WoW from the castle level had only _1_ charge !!!

Genocided all liches, rustmonsters.

No polypiling (I had the wand of 'morph, and would have polypiled
               but I decided to go for it without polypiling).

No cheats/abuses, period (no infinite gold trick, priest(ess)es etc).

Just one shop (and a useless one at that), no bones levels.

I ascended with hardly any gold pieces and no gems :-( I was so 
excited to have the chance of winning that I didn't mind getting
a low score. Oh well.

-Niranjan.
From: s892341@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Matt=Goodall)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: More 3.1 suggestions
Date: 12 Nov 92 04:09:10 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au


	A look command similiar to Moria would be nice, also when a wand
is out of charges and you haven't identified it yet having the computer
declare it (empty) would also save some of my characters. Bags of holding
and other containers should be changed so that you can see all the items
in them and choose what to take out by class of object.

New Classes: (D) Dwarf: Lawfull, all the dwarven items at the start
Stats: str:14 int:10 wis:12 dex 12 con:17 chr:10
has a pickaxe, very good armor.
Intrinstics: searching, poison res?, stealth (7th).

(M) Minstrel: Neutral, leather armor, plumed hat, staff, musical instrument.
Stats: str:12 int:15 wis:13 dex:15 con:12 chr:16
can use the instruments very well (perhaps identify them by using them)
Legend lore.
Intrinstics: stealth (7th)

The throwing routines need to be changed, monsters can throw things through
their friends but you can't.

The old problem of "get out of my way you stupid ...." could be solved by
being able to ride your pet when it's large enough.

Anyone care to comment on these things?

Matt

-- 
Matt Goodall
s892341@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au
Famous last words: "Who's the bitch with the spiders?"
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: grogers@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu (Greg Rogers)
Subject: generic help request.
Reply-To: grogers@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu (Greg Rogers)
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 04:07:42 GMT

Hi again,

I'm stuck.  I used two levitation potions to get to the castle's back door and
picked the lock.  While floating I started baching the monsters (I have agrivate
monster and no ring of conflict. Phew!).  Suddenly the potion wears out and I 	
drop through a trap door into hell(?).  After wandering around for a bit I hit	
a level teleport trap which sent me back up to level 2.

Since then I've been down to the castle and back up again and found nothing of
use.  Nothing I kill yields wands, scrolls, rings, potions, spellbooks, nada.
I have no useful items (boots, music, etc) to get me back into the castle.
I dipped for Excalibur, and offerd for Stormbringer, but now all I get are 4
leaf clover when I offer.

So basiclly I'm wandering around, waiting for something to happen, and it isn't.
What can I do?  I'm getting rather bored.

Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: angus@hardy.u.washington.edu (Angus the Demonchild)
Subject: Re: Carying capacity
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:14:03 GMT

In article <BxKCvq.Jy6@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
grogers@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu (Greg Rogers) writes:

>How do I increase my carying capacity (ignore bags of hoding).  My strength is
>18/15 and I can only carry by bare essentials.  My gauntltes of power increase
>my strength to 25, but I can't carry any more.

You must have the HARD option set in your version.  Without bags of
holding, you won't be able to carry any more.  Perhaps you should
modify your idea of 'the bare essentials.'

--
Disclaimer:  I could be wrong.  It wouldn't be the first time.

another fine product from the house of angst


Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: g88m0786@giraffe.ru.ac.za (MR TD MURRAY)
Subject: ancients 1 - help needed
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 07:04:50 GMT

I need some help on Ancients 1. I seem to be stuck on the third level. I 
still need the key frozen in ice and to get past the well.  I have found no 
secret doors - are there any? Also is there any significance to the messages 
that appear when yoy are in certain places (such as "I am soo scared")?

Doug
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: hhc@athena.mit.edu (Hong-Hsiang Chen)
Subject: Re: AK! HACK HELP NEEDED AGAIN! *Sniffle*
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 05:08:52 GMT

In article <1689B8664.C569836@mizzou1.missouri.edu> C569836@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Dana Huyler) writes:
>Sigh, I am stuck... I am currently playing Hack version 3.0.....
>I am down to level 30, only because I got confused and read a scroll of
>teleport with Teleport Control and got to level 30... Like lv 27, there is
>NO way to get down, nor any 'trap' doors. WAAAAAH!

If you really wanna know...and are playing _Hack_ not Nethack,
[SPOILER]

The way to get down is to find the level teleporters on the 20-nth levels.

They aren't that hard to find.

If you still can't find them, e-mail me.

Sean. who solved hack after finding a wand of wishing, then committing 
 suicide repeatedly to get more wands of wishings. *grin*

--
-----
Sean Chen.  hhc@athena.mit.edu
"Nunc in scutella iaceo,/et volitare nequeo,/dentes fredentes video./Miser!"
  Olim lacus colueram, _Carmina Burana_
From: mrmarcel@eos.ncsu.edu (MICHAEL RONN MARCELAIS)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: Mail Daemon and AC
Date: 10 Nov 92 22:27:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: ncsu.1992Nov10.222712.24305
Organization: North Carolina State University

In article <Dm71TB1w165w@netlink.cts.com>, jdriver@netlink.cts.com (John Driver) writes:
|>         My copy of the spoilers lists a mail daemon as being a 
|> creature in the game.  However, I have never seen one, and when I 
|> try to polymorph into one, the game tells me that it has heard of 
|> no such creature.  Well, why is it listed in the spoilers?  I am 
|> running the dos compile of 3.0j.
|> 
Mail Deamons only appear on multi-tasking computers that have a mail service. 
If you recieve mail while you're playing nethack, a Mail Deamon will run up to
you and give you a scroll of mail.  If you read this scroll, then you will
shell to your mail reader.  This is primarily for unix people who play Nethack
24hrs/day but want to keep at least a thread back to the real world.  :-)


|>         Also, how do you guys keep getting these impossibly low 
|> AC's?  Even with a +3 dragon scale mail your armor class isn't 
|> going to be at -16 like I've seen people posting as theirs.  What's 
|> the secret?

cloaks, shields, boots, etc.  If each are +3, then that adds up quickly.  Also
by donating to a priest, (via #chat) 400*your level in gp, you can get
Protection, which helps your AC.


|> 
|> --                    
|> INTERNET:  jdriver@netlink.cts.com (John Driver)
|> UUCP:   ...!ryptyde!netlink!jdriver
|> NetLink Online Communications * Public Access in San Diego, CA (619) 453-1115

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Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: mrmarcel@eos.ncsu.edu (MICHAEL RONN MARCELAIS)
Subject: Re: HACK
Organization: North Carolina State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 21:35:02 GMT

In article <Nov08.185649.69641@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, mm884030@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Marek Marasch) writes:
|> (from newsgroup comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d)
|>
|> 	Hello...  
|> 
|> 	Does anyone out there remember the old ANSI game Hack?  You know-
|> 	you were the little @ with a dog (d) who would follow you around
|> 	as you killed monsters?
|> 
|> 	What was the last version made of that game?  I would like to have
|> 	a copy of the final version, or if it's still being put out, the
|> 	most current one.  The copy I have (actually, it's NETHACK) is
|> 	dated
|> 	 12-21-87 and it's Nethack ver. 1.0.
|> 
|> 	 Does anyone out there have any information on this old game?
|> 
|> 	 Please reply to my email address, and I will post a summary
|> 	 after I receive replies.
|> 
|> 	 If anyone wants to send me a copy via email, I would be most
|> 	 happy.  (Only after ver.1.0 please)
|> 
|> 	 Thanks.
|> 
|> 	 Marek
|> 	 mm884030@longs.lance.colostate.edu
|> 

Talk about a blast from the past.  Just think what he's been missing.  

(BTW:  I did answer his questions, and he will soon be enjoying the
"holographic projection TV version" instead of the "9 inch black and white"
version (quotes from the Spoilers file.)

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From: cah@tyr.JPL.NASA.gov (Allen Halsell)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: RE:Name that tune
Date: 11 Nov 92 17:19:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: elroy.1992Nov11.171926.20981
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA/Caltech

In article <BxKA43.85F@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v094px3a@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Brian Mauger) writes:
> In article <6341@sersun1.essex.ac.uk>, ajn@essex.ac.uk writes...
> >Ever play mastermind?
>
> This didn't work for me.  No matter what I played on my horn, it just said "A
> strange sound issues out of the horn", or something like that.

This is what happens to me, too, and I've tried a LOT.  Sometimes I
actually get the tune in advance, but I don't recall that I've ever
had this work correctly.  Maybe someone could post a blow-by-blow
spoiler ...

*********************************************************************
the only thing that speaks the truth is the eloquence of passing time
               the spoken word is a jacket too tight
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: scythe@byron.u.washington.edu (The Grim Reaper)
Subject: A nifty bug.... (SPOILERS)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:15:36 GMT


Well, my latest character is doing pretty well (all intristics, more or
less, -31 AC, +6 rustproof Snickersnee...but no blindfold! argh!).  So
anyway, I'm stuck engraving with a wand of lightning to blind me.
But I discovered something kind of neat-even though my wand of lightning
is at 0 charges, I can engrave with it as much as I want! Anyone know
why?
From: mcrae@husc8.harvard.edu (Andrew McRae,   ,,)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: Mail Daemon
Date: 11 Nov 92 17:44:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Nov11.124453.17350
Reply-To: mcrae@husc8.harvard.edu
Originator: mcrae@husc8.harvard.edu

In article <1992Nov10.215758.13503@leland.Stanford.EDU>, trump@leland.Stanford.EDU (Michael Jason Lewis) writes:
> I play has done, is link nethack to email.  What this does is that if I receive
> email while I am playing nethack, an & appears with the message "Hello, trump!
> I have some mail for you." and gives me "h - a scroll of mail."  When I read 
> the scroll, it dumps me into elm aand allows me to read my mail.  When I quit
> elm, I go back to nethack.

Is there a user-settable option that will tell nethack which mail reader
to dump me into? A NETHACKOPTION? An environment variable? (I'm using csh
on ULTRIX.)

Any help appreciated. Thanks.
Andrew.
-- 
Andrew McRae                       Internet: mcrae@husc.harvard.edu
                                     BITnet: mcrae@HUSC
From: andra@cs.widener.edu (Robert Andracsek)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: More funky messages...
Date: 10 Nov 1992 20:43:00 -0500
Organization: Widener University CS Department, Chester PA
NNTP-Posting-Host: maggie.cs.widener.edu

In article <1992Nov10.190200.20438@yang.earlham.edu> marcs@yang.earlham.edu (Marc Seebass(Thunderbolt)) writes:
 >In article <gezPFUG00VAxI35kkl@andrew.cmu.edu>, ps2i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Paul Leonard Sonier) writes:
 >> Just got this one just now...
 >> 
 >> "Your mind releases itself from mundane concerns."
 >> 
 >> Wow!
 >> 
 >> Paul
 >How about.
 >"Crab grass appears at your feet. A wierd thing in a dungeon."

Both of these could be while hallucinating (second one I know is):
"Your mind...": Scroll of amnesia (guess)
"Crab grass...": Sacrifice and got a four leaf clover. (just about
sure of)
-- 
|R. Andracsek  |  e-mail: andra@cs.widener.edu  |  Voice: kinda deep...  
|  Coach:"Do you think losing is funny?!?"
|  Player:"Not at first, but once you get the hang of it..."
|                 ---The Mighty Ducks
From: swatkins@copper.denver.colorado.edu (The Troll Master)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: Stuck in first level of hell
Keywords: trapdoors, dragons
Date: 9 Nov 92 05:15:08 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado at Denver


 is it true dragons cannot fall through trapdoors?  once while polymorphed as a
red dragon I hit a trap door and got the message "you are too big for the trap
door".  was I just lucky????

ciao,
the troll.
From: censwm@cend3c7.caledonia.hw.ac.uk (Stuart W Munn)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: HACK for DEC Ultrix
Date: 11 Nov 92 16:19:48 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

Where can I get the Hack source for Ultrix 4.2A ? I have got a generic version, but get errors on compilation. I am NOT an expert C/UNIX programmer so I need a version that will compile on Ultrix without hassle

Thanks

-- 
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Edinburgh                                therefore GOD, he is a St Mirren
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031 451-3265
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Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: dif@bhprtc.scpd.oz.au (David Faulkner)
Subject: Re: Why Statues?
Organization: BHP Steel, Sheet & Coil, Research & Technology Centre
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 01:06:32 GMT

jwk3@po.CWRU.Edu (John W. Kale) writes:


>In a previous article, gmribeir@david.wheaton.edu (Glauber) says:
>
>>In article <1992Nov9.000135.11397@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c9c-br@po.berkeley.edu (Rob Meyers) writes:
>>>This is probably a lame question, but since I can't find it in the guidebook,
>>>the FAQ, or the spoiler files, what good are statues?  I had one animate on
>>>me, but I forgot what I did.  I've come across statues of a jaguar, kobold,
>>>and a few leprechauns.  
>>>
>>>
>>>Rob Meyers
>>>meyers@soda.berkeley.edu
>>
>>Sometimes there are spellbooks inside, when you break them
>>with a pickaxe or wand of diggin'.
>>							G.
>
>	Statues can also be picked up and w)ielded. They aren't very
>good weapons, but when weilding a statue you can #f)orce locks, something
>that not all weapons can do.

When is this statue question going to be put into the FAQ???
Please!
If this isn't a Frequently Asked Question, I don't know what is.

  -dif-
-- 
Dave Faulkner, Research Engineer                    (dif@bhprtc.scpd.oz.au)
BHP Coated Products Division, Research and Technology Centre
Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia.
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: nautilus@lachesis.acm.rpi.edu (John M. Twilley)
Subject: Help!
Organization: The Voice of Fate
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:36:50 GMT


I am trying to compile NetHack 3.0 on a 3b2/310 running SysVR2.0.5
with two megabytes of RAM.  I can successfully compile (with some
small changes to the source), but when I run it I get:

./nethack:  too big

Any hints?  (Get a new machine is not an option, and I am trying to 
find out if I can upgrade to 4 M RAM.)

Jack.
-- 
John M. Twilley             | It's only premarital sex if 
nautilus@acm.rpi.edu        | you're going to get married.
twilley@dewey.nusc.navy.mil |                --anonymous
From: swatkins@copper.denver.colorado.edu (The Troll Master)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: need help debugging DOS net hack 3.0j (patch 10)
Summary: magic whistle won't work & want version to keep a bones file.
Keywords: whistle bones
Date: 13 Nov 92 17:16:13 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado at Denver
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4


	I have the PC DOS form of nethack version 3.0j error patch 10, and
I would like it to create bones files like the one on unix I used to play.  Also
how do you debug the program so that the magic whistle actually teleports your
pet to the same room you are in???

thanks forwarded,
the troll.
From: bbw@po.CWRU.Edu (Benjamin B. Winter)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: Stuck in first level of hell
Date: 12 Nov 1992 18:05:19 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bbw@po.CWRU.Edu (Benjamin B. Winter)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, dcb@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (Predecrement David) says:

>bbw@po.CWRU.Edu (Benjamin B. Winter) writes:
>>
>>OR. . . The infallable way of getting past the castle:
>>The VERY TOP ROW of the level is also vunerable to digging. Ya know, that
>>wall that runs all along the top... Grab your pick axe and go to.
>
>Classic.  Who keeps spreading these rumors?  In NetHack 3.0j+, those walls
>are not diggable.  Try it in wizard or explore mode.
>
Well, they are in my version, which is 3.0i, so get an older version :)

-Ben
-- 
Ben Winter-  bbw@po.cwru.edu
 "Infinity is really quite a ways up there."
	-Prof. Prahl
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
From: mrmarcel@eos.ncsu.edu (MICHAEL RONN MARCELAIS)
Subject: Re: Funny message guessing
Keywords: message funny YAFM guess
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 17:11:00 GMT

In article <BxArso.91o@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>, prknoerr@faui01.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Peter Knoerrich) writes:
|> Here's another one, fresh from the game:
|> 
|> Something seems to be holding you.
|> 
|> (Makes a lot of sense if you know how it happened :)
|> 
|> 				Bye, :-D, Peter
|> 
|> PS: :-D  <-- That's of course a dragon breathing at a lizard.
|> ---
|> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
|> Watch the sunfall, and that flock of .sigs peacefully crossing the sky...
|> Peter Knoerrich,           email: prknoerr@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de


You're caught by a mimic, while blind, and you tried to move away?

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From: ksoutor@unlinfo.unl.edu (kevin soutor)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
Subject: Latest Mac version?
Date: 5 Nov 1992 21:43:57 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: unlinfo.unl.edu

Please send me the FTP site for the latest color Mac version.  Need it
by Friday so I can sucker another friend into the Nethack dungeon!

Thanks.
--
       Kevin Soutor        | "Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms!" |
 ksoutor@unlinfo.unl.edu   |               -- Outlaw Josey Wales  |