This whole adventure started in 1986 when a friend at Michigan Tech showed me HACK on his PC-XT. The computer had a 20MB MFM hard drive, which was magic to me at the time after using exclusively floppies.
I can't say I remember exactly what HACK was like. It clearly had classes/races (and like earlier Nethack, some classes were races and all others were human) and I clearly remember wishing (from fountains? magic lamps?) The whole cursed/blessed/uncursed thing was a mystery to us, as was the randomization of potion/scroll/amulet/ring names. You wouldn't believe how many times we tried to write down what each meant, only to be perplexed next game. I don't think the scroll names have changed since HACK.
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