Editing Hack (video game) (section)

==History and development==
''Hack'' was created in 1982 by Jay Fenlason with the assistance of Kenny Woodland, Mike Thome, and Jonathan Payne, while students at [[Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School]].<ref>
{{Citation
|title = A Case Study: The Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School
|last  = Harvey
|first = Brian
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|url    = http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/lsrhs.html
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|url-status = live}}</ref> A greatly extended version was first released on [[Usenet]] in 1984 by [[Andries Brouwer]]. Brouwer continued to work on ''Hack'' until July 1985. Don Kneller ported the game to [[MS-DOS]] and continued development there.<ref name="1.0.3">{{cite web
|title=''Hack'' 1.0.3
|url=http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Hack_1.0.3
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110512172135/http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Hack_1.0.3
|archive-date=12 May 2011
|url-status=live
|work=NetHackWiki
|access-date=19 July 2013}}</ref> Development on all ''Hack'' versions ended within a few years. ''Hack'' descendant ''[[NetHack]]'' was released in 1987.<ref>{{cite web
|title=Game history 1.0.3
|url=http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Game_history
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101117223607/http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Game_history
|archive-date=17 November 2010
|url-status=live
|work=NetHackWiki
|access-date=19 July 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|title=''NetHack'' 1.3d
|url=http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/NetHack_1.3d
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110529010618/http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/NetHack_1.3d
|archive-date=29 May 2011
|url-status=live
|work=NetHackWiki
|access-date=19 July 2013
}}</ref>

''Hack'' is still available for Unix, and is distributed alongside many modern Unix-like OSes,<ref name="1.0.3" /> including [[Debian]], [[Ubuntu (operating system)|Ubuntu]], [[Berkeley Software Distribution#Significant BSD descendants|the BSDs]],<ref name="1.0.3" /> [[Fedora (operating system)|Fedora]],<ref>
{{cite web
|title=bsd-games.spec
|url=http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/bsd-games.git/tree/bsd-games.spec?id=20f2956e400443ef2667a80fc2d5fe216875fd68#n162
|work=Fedora Project Packages GIT repositories » bsd-games.git
|accessdate=19 July 2013
|at=Line 162}}</ref> and others. ''Hack'' has also been ported to a variety of non-Unix-based platforms. ''NetHack'' is available for almost all platforms which run ''Hack''. There is one exception: ''Hack'' is available,<ref>
{{cite web
|title=List of handheld roguelikes
|url=http://roguebasin.com/index.php?title=List_of_handheld_roguelikes#Game_Boy_Advance
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181219164236/http://roguebasin.com/index.php?title=List_of_handheld_roguelikes
|archive-date = December 19, 2018
|url-status = live
|work=RogueBasin
|access-date=19 July 2013}}</ref> but ''NetHack'' is unavailable, for the [[Game Boy Advance]].