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telnetting into a nethack game

Perhaps it's because I'm getting old, or because I stare at a computer screen all day but I just can't play modern computer games. At least not for a very long time at a stretch, and certainly not for long enough to learn how to play one of the several big multiplayer games that seem to have suck...

Do you remember those character based games where you were an "@" symbol and you adventured around in dungeons whose walls were lines of "###"s? Do you lust after slaying the evil "s" (skeleton) lurking on the other side of the "+" (door)? Well, get ready to adventure! These types of games are al...