Vulture for NetHack
Vulture for NetHack is An isometric graphical interface for the games NetHack, Slash'EM and UnNetHack
The games were previously known as Vulture's Eye and Vulture's Claw for the NetHack and Slash'EM variants respectively, the project's isometric engine is now known as Vulture with all references to Eye and Claw being removed from the project pending the addition of the SporkHack and UnNetHack variants as well.
Slash Em
From the land before 3DFX, before VGA graphics and DOOM, before the IBM PC, way back in the dark ages of Unixland, there was a game. They called it Rogue. People played it, and found it good. From this basis, Hack was born. Soon Hack became Nethack, because it was developed by many people (and has nothing to do with hacking the internet). And people played this on many machines, from Unices to Macs to PCs, due to the amazing power of Open Source Code.
But the DevTeam, the reclusive masterminds of Nethack, are a rather quiet bunch, gracing the world with new versions as they see fit, and when they see fit. Which is usually a new version every good number of years.
And there was much gnashing of teeth.
But because of the Freely Available Source Code Phenomenon, people began making their own versions of Nethack to tide themselves between magical releases.
SLASH'EM:
Slash 'em is the (continuing) saga of one such variant...
This is the homepage for Warren Cheung's modification and experiment in computer engineering based on the 3.3.1 release of Nethack, combining Tom Proudfoot's SLASH and the Larry Stewart-Zerba's Wizard Patch. From these humble beginnings, a not insignificant number of further changes have been added.
Reference accessed HERE May 2012
UnNetHack
UnNetHack is a fork of Nethack. It is a roguelike, single-player role-playing game where the hero must venture through the depths of the Dungeon of Doom to retrieve the Amulet of Yendor.
It features more randomness, more levels, more challenges and more fun than vanilla NetHack.
There is a development blog on wordpress and a list of public servers at un.nethack.nu.
Unnethack adds more to nethack, in a good way, and the developer is friendly. After the bugs are ironed out it will be an awesome game :)
Reference HERE May 2012
Downloads:
You can download Vulture for NetHack HERE and from HERE. you can also access the separate downloads for Slash 'em and UnNetHack using the reference links above.