Do you want your possessions identified? (y/n)

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I have been playing the new version of NetHack on the cube. As always, my games rarely last more than 20 minutes, as I excitedly ramp up in power and then lose it all at once. None of my characters this session have survived the gnomish mines, which is pretty pathetic.

I have to say, though, that my first YASD under this new version was pretty impressive. I stupidly put on a pair of unidentified boots in a store, which were of course cursed boots of levitation, and I had to pay for them before angrily floating out the door. Well, OK, I thought, I'll try this scroll; maybe it's a remove curse. Oops, it was an earthquake scroll, which has surrounded me with boulders... none of which I can push out of the way, due to lack of leverage, thanks to the floaty-boots. Whee! (Actually, I quit before I officially died of starvation.)

I hope that somebody makes a really-real Aqua port of NetHack besides the "official" QT-based one. I can deal with the chunky tile graphics (I mean, c'mon, it's NetHack) but the UI is pretty awful by modern standards, particularly with the preferences dialog. I'm not sure if I'd have the patience to figure it out were I new player who didn't learn the controls by originally playing the game on a Linux console (and thus expecting no better).