Post #2465785

It is 1990. My primary OS is Ultrix on my “Maxine” class Personal DECstation. I compile joe(1) from sources pulled from Usenet, and use it to configure my build of nethack 3.0. It is 1996. My primary OS is SunOS4.x on a SPARCStation 1+. I build joe 2.8, and use it to configure my build of nethack 3.2 It is 2006. My primary OS is Gentoo Linux on a Franken-box of random hardware. The first thing I do once i have a working kernel is compile joe 3.0, and use it to configure my build of nethack 3.4.3 (all hail the king) It is 2016. I have a Macbook Pro running El Capitan. I install joe (3.x? 4.x?) via homebrew, and use it to configure my build of nethack 3.6 It is 2026. I have a MacBook Air M2 running Tahoe. Joe version 4.8 is released in late April. I install it via homebrew, and use it to configure my build of nethack 5.0, released in early May. IIRC nethack 3.0 took around 15-20 minutes to build on the DECStation’s R3000 CPU. Nethack 5 built in about 15 seconds on the M2 chip (TTY mode only…working on errors in the ncurses build now). My gaming consoles tell me I have spent thousands of hours playing (mostly) Katamari, Ratchet & Clank, Horizon, No Man’s Sky, and Clair Obscur over the years. But I bet I still have more cumulative time in nethack overall…