I also ported ToME (http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=8179), which I had never played before. It's hard to get started as a melee with v2.3.1 but once you do it's a blast. Basically if it's a variant of Angband chances are it can be ported fairly easily.
Nethack is probably my least favorite roguelike, but I know I am in the small minority there. I briefly looked into porting it and while the source directory structure is very pretty, it's code is so sprinkled with cryptic ifdef's that it's going to take me awhile to decipher it. I still want to do it, but ToME is totally sucking me in atm =)
As far as crashing goes I haven't been able to replicate it, both of them have been very stable for me, and I use the help quite a bit in both ToME and Angband. You are using v.4 right? If not get it post haste, since it's much faster in the help system than .3.
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