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4 unusual facts about NetHack


Christian demons in popular culture

In the video game NetHack, Demogorgon is considered the most difficult monster.

Fractint

Along with Emacs and NetHack, it is one of the oldest still-maintained free programs.

Undefined behavior

In practice, many C implementations recognize, for example, #include guards — but GCC 1.17, upon finding a #pragma directive, would instead attempt to launch commonly distributed Unix games such as NetHack and Rogue, or start Emacs running a simulation of the Towers of Hanoi.

Varda

In the computer game NetHack, the player can ward off most monsters by engraving the name "Elbereth" into the ground.


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