I'm pretty sure that was the version number. What I specifically
remember from this was that it was a linear dungeon, like Hack, but at
one point I ran into Larry, Curly, and Moe, who ran into the room
punching each other. I was playing it on my a computer at my dad's
workplace and I wasn't able to get back to it for various reasons.

I want to find Larry, Curly, and Moe again. I want to see them punching
each other.

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On 24.06.2022 14:03, Rollory wrote:

I'm pretty sure that was the version number. What I specifically
remember from this was that it was a linear dungeon, like Hack, but at
one point I ran into Larry, Curly, and Moe, who ran into the room
punching each other. I was playing it on my a computer at my dad's
workplace and I wasn't able to get back to it for various reasons.

I want to find Larry, Curly, and Moe again. I want to see them punching
each other.

Searching the Internet provided this link: https://www.nethack.org/download/2.3e/
Larry, Curly, and Moe are part of it,
if the game gets compiled with the tag
"STOOGES" defined.

Janis

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In article <t94969$a02$4@gioia.aioe.org>, rollory@dnmx.org says...

I'm pretty sure that was the version number.

Nethack 2.3e I think, from 1988.

The source code is still availabel in a number of places eg:

https://nethack.org/download/2.3e/

But I think you will need to compile it yourself. It's been decades
since I did that, and even then it was on a Sun workstation, so I'm not
at all sure how hard it would be to get this working.

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On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 08:03:21 -0400, Rollory wrote:

I'm pretty sure that was the version number. What I specifically
remember from this was that it was a linear dungeon, like Hack, but at
one point I ran into Larry, Curly, and Moe, who ran into the room
punching each other. I was playing it on my a computer at my dad's
workplace and I wasn't able to get back to it for various reasons.

I want to find Larry, Curly, and Moe again. I want to see them punching
each other.

https://web.archive.org/web/19990429071841/http://pinky.wtower.com/nethack/download.shtml

Scroll down to the bottom of the page. Binary compare of nh23e.zip is
identical to the archive I have stored since its release.

Supersede because I forgot to add the checksums:

MD5: e13b136505ba87487bb639b0d48d682c *NH23E.ZIP
SHA256: 0bd621367729c0c89fbb5463a79b5a42652eda5d6caa2c61861f9b2e1dc06d7d *NH23E.ZIP

BeAr
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On Friday, June 24, 2022 at 9:49:50 AM UTC-7, B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson wrote:

Scroll down to the bottom of the page. Binary compare of nh23e.zip is identical to the archive I have stored since its release.

All nethack versions prior to 3.2.3 (which was a source-only release
made at the same time as source and binary releases for 3.3.0)
suffer from a Y2K bug in their scoreboard file ('record') handling.

Setting the system's clock back to 198x or 199x should avoid the
problem. Unfortunately really old versions decided whether a save
or bones file was compatible with the executable by comparing
their file modification timestamps so that may not be as trivial a
workaround as it sounds.

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