NetHack

The classic roguelike adventure: Descend the Mazes of Menace and retrieve the Amulet of Yendor!

NOTE: This is a demo website! Please visit www.nethack.org for the real NetHack website.

NetHack 3.4.3 released on December 8, 2003. This is NOT the current version!

[OLD] Downloads - NetHack 3.4.3

Don't forget to read the NetHack 3.4.3 release notes!

Windows

nethack-343-win.zip
NetHack 3.4.3 for Windows. Contains NetHackW.exe (graphical tiles, recommended) and NetHack.exe (TTY console).

You must EXTRACT ALL FILES from the ZIP archive before running the game, otherwise you will get this error: Cannot open dungeon description - "dungeon"!

Do not move or copy the EXE files out of the game folder; create shortcuts instead.

See our info for setting the window/font size if running NetHack.exe under Windows newer than XP.

(Old Windows download instructions.)

Mac OS X

There are several Mac binaries available; you only need one of these. Only the first binary below will run under OS X 10.7 Lion, and none will run on 68K-based Macs.

NetHack-343-Lion-mac-Term-1.dmg (recommended)
OS: Intel Macs running OS X 10.7 Lion Map: text UI: terminal Mount this image to start the installer. Files are placed in /usr/games and /Applications.
nethack-343-mac-carbon.sit
OS: PowerPC Macs running Mac OS 8.5, 9.x or OS X 10.x up to 10.6 Snow Leopard. Map: text UI: Carbon GUI Extract the files in this archive somewhere convenient.
NetHack-343-3-macosx-qt.dmg
OS: PowerPC Macs running OS X 10.2 up to 10.6 Snow Leopard. Map: graphical tiles UI: Qt GUI Mount this image and drag the NetHackQt application and Documentation folder somewhere convenient.
NetHack-343-Term.dmg
OS: PowerPC Macs running OS X 10.x up to 10.6 Snow Leopard. Map: text UI: terminal Mount this image and start the installer. Files are placed in /usr/games. If you get "No write permission to lock perm!" when trying to play:

(Old Mac OS download instructions.)

Linux

The easiest way to download NetHack for Linux is to search for the nethack package in the package manager of your Linux distribution, rather than downloading it here.

More technically-minded Linux users may prefer to compile NetHack themselves from the source code, which will always link to libraries as installed for your distribution.

The RPM packages below should install for and run on Redhat 9 and Suse 8.

nethack-343-linux-X11.tgz
NetHack 3.4.3 for TTY (text) and X11/Athena (graphical tiles). Requires glibc-2.3 and X11 libraries. Check README.linux for further dependency information and installation instructions.
nethack-3.4.3-1.i386.rpm
Same as above in RPM format.
nethack-3.4.3-1qt.i386.rpm
NetHack 3.4.3 with graphical tiles using the Qt GUI. Requires Qt libraries (version 2.x).

(Old Linux download instructions.)

MS-DOS

nh343dos.zip
Protected-mode NetHack (tty and graphical tiles). Requires a 386 or greater processor, 3 MB of extended memory and 2.8 MB of hard drive space.

This requires DPMI to run. To run this on plain DOS, download CWSDPMI.EXE and put it in your NetHack directory.

There is no real-mode overlaid binary distribution of NetHack 3.4.3.

(Old MS-DOS download instructions.)

Windows CE

These installer packages must be downloaded to, and run on, a Microsoft Windows computer, not on the target Windows CE system.

nethack-343-ce-ppc.exe
NetHack 3.4.3 installer package for PocketPC platform (Windows CE 3.0, PocketPC 2000 and PocketPC 2002).
nethack-343-ppc.ARM.CAB
Same as above in CAB format.
nethack-343-ce-hpc.exe
NetHack 3.4.3 installer package for Handheld PC Professional running Windows 2.11 or higher.
nethack-343-ce-ps211.exe
NetHack 3.4.3 installer package for the Palm Size PC running Windows CE 2.11. Note: This has nothing to do with any PalmOS-based PDA.
nethack-343-sph.ARM.CAB
NetHack 3.4.3 installer package for the Smartphone 2002. This is an unsigned CAB so you will need an unlocked phone to install and run this (e.g. a developer version of the Orange SPV). Use the # (hash) key on your phone to access different keypad layouts.
nethack-343-sph-k.ARM.CAB
NetHack 3.4.3 installer package for the Smartphone 2002 with full keyboard support enabled. This is an unsigned CAB so you will need an unlocked phone to install and run this (e.g. a developer version of the Orange SPV).

The installer packages above were created with EZSetup by Scott Ludwig.

Read the old Windows CE download instructions for compatibility information.

OS/2

nethack-343-os2.zip
32-bit NetHack 3.4.3 for OS/2 (TTY text mode), built using EMX 0.9d. In principle it should be runnable on OS/2 version 2.0 or later but has not been tested on any version other than 4.0.
nethack-343-os2-X11.zip
32-bit NetHack 3.4.3 for OS/2 (X11 graphical tiles and text modes), built using EMX 0.9d. Requires the EMX runtime libraries, XAW.dll (X11 Athena widgets) and dynamically links against the XFree86 libraries.

(Old OS/2 download instructions.)

Amiga

nethack-343-ami.lha
NetHack3.4.3 for 68K-based Amigas running AmigaDOS 3.0 or later. It might work on systems as early as AmigaDOS 2.05. Read Install.ami in the LHA archive for more information.

(Old Amiga download instructions.)

Atari

nethack-343-atari-gt.lzh
NetHack 3.4.3 for Ataris running TOS, MiNT or MagiC. This is a GEM (tiles, default) and TTY (text only) port of NetHack. Requires 2 MB of memory and 3 MB of hard drive space.

(Old Atari download instructions.)

Source code

Instructions on how to compile the source code are included in the source release.

Alternatively, you can clone our code repository for the latest version of NetHack, or any other version by its tag; see How to Contribute for more details.

nethack-343-src.tgz
NetHack 3.4.3 source release.
nethack-3.4.3-1qt.src.rpm
NetHack 3.4.3 source release, in RPM format, set up to compile with the Qt GUI. (You only need one of this or the previous file.)
nethack-343-ce-proj.zip
NetHack 3.4.3 Win CE and Smartphone compiler project files. (Only needed to compile for Windows CE and Smartphone platforms.) Unzip this into the sys/wince folder of the source code.
nethack-342-343-diffs.gz
Context diff from version 3.4.2. (If you don't know what this is, you don't need it.)

(Old source code download instructions.)

Large tiles (optional)

nethack-343-tiles32-2.zip
A 32x32 pixel tileset, larger than the default 16x16 tileset. Only usable with graphical tiles ports of NetHack.

To use this tileset, extract it to the same directory/folder as NetHack, then add the following line to your config file:

OPTIONS=tile_file:tiles32.bmp, tile_width:32, tile_height:32