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.ds f0 "\*(vr
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-.ds f2 "March 17, 2002
+.ds f2 "March 18, 2002
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A Guide to the Mazes of Menace
(Guidebook for NetHack)
December 1999 and 3.3.1 in August of 2000.
.pg
Version 3.3 offered many firsts. It was the first version to separate race
-and profession. The Elf class was removed in preference to an Elf Race,
-and the races of Dwarves, Gnomes, and Orcs made their first appearance in
-the game alongside the familiar Human race. Monk and Ranger roles joined
-Archeologists, Barbarians, Cavemen, Healers, Knights, Priests, Rogues,
+and profession. The Elf class was removed in preference to an elf race,
+and the races of dwarves, gnomes, and orcs made their first appearance in
+the game alongside the familiar human race. Monk and Ranger roles joined
+Archeologists, Barbarians, Cavemen, Healers, Knights, Priests, Rogues, Samurai,
Tourists, Valkyries and of course, Wizards. It was also the first version
to allow you to ride a steed, and was the first version to have a publicly
available web-site listing all the bugs that had been discovered. Despite
\fBJanet Walz\fP, and \fBPaul Winner\fP, with \fB Warwick Allison\fP joining
just before the release of NetHack 3.4.0 in March 2002.
.pg
-As with version 3.2, various people contributed to the game as a whole as
+As with version 3.3, various people contributed to the game as a whole as
well as supporting ports on the different platforms that NetHack runs on:
.pg
\fBPat Rankin\fP maintained 3.4 for VMS.
%.au
\author{Eric S. Raymond\\
(Extensively edited and expanded for 3.4)}
-\date{March 17, 2002}
+\date{March 18, 2002}
\maketitle
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\medskip
Version 3.3 offered many firsts. It was the first version to separate race
-and profession. The Elf class was removed in preference to an Elf Race,
-and the races of Dwarves, Gnomes, and Orcs made their first appearance in
-the game alongside the familiar Human race. Monk and Ranger roles joined
-Archeologists, Barbarians, Cavemen, Healers, Knights, Priests, Rogues,
+and profession. The Elf class was removed in preference to an elf race,
+and the races of dwarves, gnomes, and orcs made their first appearance in
+the game alongside the familiar human race. Monk and Ranger roles joined
+Archeologists, Barbarians, Cavemen, Healers, Knights, Priests, Rogues, Samurai,
Tourists, Valkyries and of course, Wizards. It was also the first version
to allow you to ride a steed, and was the first version to have a publicly
available web-site listing all the bugs that had been discovered. Despite
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\medskip
-The 3.4 development team initially consisted of {\it Michael Allison}, {\it Ken Arromdee},
-{\it David Cohrs}, {\it Jessie Collet}, {\it Steve Creps}, {\it Kevin Darcy},
-{\it Timo Hakulinen},
-{\it Kevin Hugo}, {\it Steve Linhart}, {\it Ken Lorber}, {\it Dean Luick}, {\it Pat Rankin},
-{\it Eric Smith}, {\it Mike Stephenson}, {\it Janet Walz}, and {\it Paul Winner}.
-{\it Warwick Allison} joined just before the release of NetHack 3.4.0.
-
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-\medskip
-As with version 3.2, various people contributed to the game as a whole as
+As with version 3.3, various people contributed to the game as a whole as
well as supporting ports on the different platforms that {\it NetHack\/}
runs on: