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Started by jade_nekotenshi, Sep 26, 2026, 03:45 AM

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Quote from: jade_nekotenshi on Sep 26, 2026, 03:45 AMI'm not sure how the community feels about AI-assisted coding

  AI-assisted coded software for NS/OS is better than no software for NS/OS :D

  Looking forward to trying the SSH software on OS 4.2 patched with VirtualBox.

jade_nekotenshi

#16
New versions of all of them:

RatChat (source)

StepTTY (source)

StepSSH (source)

Plus two more new apps - Kallisti (source), a native Discord client, and StepHack (source), a NetHack (and variants) wrapper/client.

Kallisti supports inline images, multiple servers, most of the expected text-Discord features. No voice or video, and using third-party Discord clients is technically against the TOS, so use it strictly at your own risk.

StepHack supports Nethack 3.4.3, 3.6.7 and 5.0, plus Slash'EM, Hack'EM, Unnethack, Evilhack, Splicehack and Sporkhack. It sets sensible defaults and includes an options editor.


jade_nekotenshi

 I realized StepHack doesn't include the actual FooHack binaries, and they all took at least a little porting effort. To get them most easily, use my fork of openstep-pkg here. All of the variants work on x86 and SPARC. They're not tested on 68k but may well work there too - if not, open an issue on GitHub and I'll get it fixed.