Comments on: Spent some more time messing with NetHack 1.3d revived

By: Ol Ma

Ol Ma — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 02:41:05 +0000

Hello Neozeed. I just discovered your blog and this post. I’m a huge Nethack fan who wants to discover the first 1987 version. I downloaded your file on SourceForge but I’m not able to make it work. Do you think that you can tell how I have to do precisely. I’m on Windows 11. Thanks in advance.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 12:10:40 +0000

In reply to Silencess. awesome, enjoy the past!

By: Silencess

Silencess — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 12:05:16 +0000

In reply to neozeed. start successfully! thx a million!

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 09:48:42 +0000

In reply to Silencess.

you need to make sure it’s at the root of a drive (I dont think it matters which).

Since this uses RSX which is a a port of EMX to Windows NT, it has a very ‘unix’ like dependency to finding it’s termcap database.

set TERM=mono
set TERMCAP=/nethack/etc/termcap.dat
hack

So it needs to be able to find c:\nethack\etc\termcap.dat for example.

If it cannot find it’self it’ll print the infamous “Terminal must backspace.”

I hope this helps.

By: Silencess

Silencess — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 08:50:37 +0000

Download the nethack-1.3d-revived-reloaded file, run the run.bat but only to be told that “Terminal must backspace.” Search the Internet and find nothing useful about that. Could you please help? Thx!!!