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Warwick did the heavy lifting of the first tiles implementation.  But
I was the one who suggested changing his terminology to "tiles" even
though that doesn't match the term's traditional usage in computer
graphics.  Since then, our [mis-]usage has spread beyond nethack and
its variants.  [This isn't just bragging; I recall several years ago
that someone thought our implementation of tiles for MS-DOS was the
original implementation.  Their search of the newsgroup archives didn't
find Warwick's original announcement--Atari binaries and/or a source
patch in between releases--because the term "tiles" wasn't in use yet.]

I'm not sure whether Dean's font preceded Warwick's icons, but the
concept did.  If the description of their implemenations is backwards
than that bit should be reworded.

Also, add a sentence explaining why NetHack++ "was quickly renamed
NetHack--".
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@@ -65,9 +65,20 @@ for the VMS version of NetHack 3.1. Michael Allison ported NetHack 3.1 to
Windows NT.
Dean Luick, with help from David Cohrs, developed NetHack 3.1 for X11.
Warwick Allison wrote a tiled version of NetHack for the Atari;
he later contributed the tiles to the NetHack Development Team and tile
support was then added to other platforms.
It drew the map as text rather than graphically but included nh10.bdf, an
optionally used custom X11 font which has tiny images in place of letters and
punctuation, a precursor of tiles. Those images didn't extend to individual
monster and object types, just replacements for monster and object classes
(so one custom image for all "a" insects and another for all "[" armor and
so forth, not separate images for beetles and ants or for cloaks and boots).
Warwick Allison wrote a graphically displayed version of NetHack for the
Atari where the tiny pictures were described as "icons" and were distinct
for specific types of monsters and objects rather than just their classes.
He contributed them to the NetHack Development Team which rechristened them
"tiles", original usage which has subsequently been picked up by various
other games. NetHack's tiles support was then implemented on other platforms
(initially MS-DOS but eventually Windows, Qt, and X11 too).
The 3.2 NetHack Development Team, comprised of Michael Allison, Ken Arromdee,
David Cohrs, Jessie Collet, Steve Creps, Kevin Darcy, Timo Hakulinen, Steve
@@ -91,11 +102,12 @@ added their own modifications to the game and made these "variants" publicly
available:
Tom Proudfoot and Yuval Oren created NetHack++, which was quickly renamed
NetHack--. Working independently, Stephen White wrote NetHack Plus.
Tom Proudfoot later merged NetHack Plus and his own NetHack-- to produce
SLASH. Larry Stewart-Zerba and Warwick Allison improved the spellcasting
system with the Wizard Patch. Warwick Allison also ported NetHack to use
the Qt interface.
NetHack-- when some people incorrectly assumed that it was a conversion
of the C source code to C++. Working independently, Stephen White wrote
NetHack Plus. Tom Proudfoot later merged NetHack Plus and his own NetHack--
to produce SLASH. Larry Stewart-Zerba and Warwick Allison improved the
spellcasting system with the Wizard Patch. Warwick Allison also ported
NetHack to use the Qt interface.
Warren Cheung combined SLASH with the Wizard Patch to produce Slash'em, and
with the help of Kevin Hugo, added more features. Kevin later joined the