Graphical user interface
As well as the standard ASCII interface, many official and unofficial graphical user interfaces are available for NetHack, some of which are given a visual showcase below.
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Official ports
Amiga
Atari ST
Curses
The curses interface for NetHack is an alternate character mode interface with many features not present in the traditional TTY interface.
Windows
X11
Qt
All of the status values except turns elapsed flash green when they increase (e.g. picking up gold and recovering power) and red when they decrease (e.g. going "down" a dungeon level, including moving up floors in Sokoban).
MS-DOS
By using F3, F4, and F5, the user can switch between this view, another with narrowed tiles that makes the entire map visible, and one using IBMgraphics.
Mac Nethack, the Carbon port
Unofficial ports
Falcon's Eye
Vulture's Eye
glHack
noegnud
Noegnud is a semi-3D interface for both NetHack and SLASH'EM.
NetHack 3D
NetHack 3D features a first-person view and supports both English and Japanese languages. It can be downloaded from SourceForge and is for Mac OS only.
iNetHack
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iNetHack is a port that can be downloaded here from Google.
NetHack Android
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NetHack Android is a port of NetHack and Slash'EM to the Android OS that can be downloaded here from Google. It runs as native code with an Android Java frontend, and has TTY and tileset interfaces along with some touchscreen support and context-sensitive actions.
NeWT
NetHack With Tiles (aka NeWT) is a graphical interface that looks and behaves like the TTY version while still allowing the use of tiles. It can be downloaded here from bitbucket.
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Inventory
AllegroHack
AllegroHack is a graphical interface for NetHack 3.4.3 on MS-DOS, giving more capable graphics than the standard interface.
Browser-accessible GUI
The following graphical user interfaces are designed to be browser-compatible.
NAO
The nethack.alt.org public server has [https://www.alt.org/nethack/hterm/ a web-based terminal emulator with tileset options and the ability to use different fonts (Hack, Inconsolata, DejaVu Sans Mono, Square).
BrowserHack
BrowserHack is a direct port of NetHack to web browsers, featuring tiles that link to the corresponding articles on this wiki and can be accessed by holding SHIFT when clicking them. BrowserHack can be played on Wang Lu's homepage and the source code is on coolwanglu’s GitHub.
Front-ends for public servers
These are clients that play NetHack on a networked gameserver such as nethack.alt.org which runs dgamelaunch over ssh
EbonHack
EbonHack is a graphical telnet frontend for NetHack that can connect to nethack.alt.org over telnet.
NetHack Tiles Client
NetHack Tiles Client is an open-source client for nethack.alt.org and Hardfought which uses vt_tiledata to display tiles. Compatible with NetHack 5.0.0 and as builds for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
List of deprecated front-ends
The following browser-based front-ends are currently offline or otherwise non-functional, and will be listed above as soon as possible if they come back online.
Webhack
webhack.webhook.org] is a browser-based graphical front-end for NAO that can be viewed through the provided link to the Wayback Machine—the site currently hangs indefinitely after hitting c to connect. It uses the DawnHack tileset if the vt_tiledata option is enabled, and otherwise uses standard ASCII.
un.nethack.nu
un.nethack.nu/wstty is a browser-based front-end for playing UnNetHack, and offers variant-specific versions of three tilesets in DawnHack, geoduck and unchozo32b. The front-end is improperly configured, and attempts to connect directly to un.nethack.nu rather than either us.un.nethack.nu or eu.un.nethack.nu—the section will be updated when this error is corrected.
nethack.xd.cm/wstty
The ascension.run public server (formerly nethack.xd.cm and nethack.dank.ninja) hosted a web terminal that allows tiles if the vt_tiledata option is enabled until the server closed in 2021.
