NetHack Cocoa

NetHack Cocoa NetHack 5.0.0 as a native Mac app based on version.

——Glorat (talk) 05:08, 4 November 2026 (UTC)

Description

What you get

- The full, vanilla NetHack 5.0.0 - A universal app for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, macOS 12 or later

Still there from the original port

ASCII mode with your choice of font, or the classic 16px tiles (or your own tile set)
Mac menus that list commands with their keys, for discoverability
Dialogs for inventory, prompts, directions and character creation
Status and equipment panels, a notes window, and speech
Your .nethackrc options

New in this version

Painted style 64px and 128px tiles for Retina screens, drawn over the floor beneath them, with sharper wand and spell beams
Map zoom with ⌘= and ⌘−, or pinch on a trackpad
An inventory sidebar listing everything you carry, with blessed items in green, cursed in red. Click an item, or anything in the Wearing panel, to choose what to do with it
Status at a glance: hunger, encumbrance and conditions show as coloured badges and an arrow flags a stat that just went up or down
Map marks for peaceful monsters, your steed, item piles and monsters you sense but can't see
Redrawn menus and dialogs: pick lists show each item's picture, wield and quaff offer a menu of suitable items, short questions show one button per answer, and prompts take the same keys as tty
A game-over dialog to start a new game or quit
Fixes for a long list of old glitches and crashes, including stray clicks moving you, the app freezing after a game ends, and dialogs answering the next question by mistake