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history of 'tiles'

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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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@@ -5932,11 +5932,28 @@ was responsible for the VMS version of {\it NetHack\/} 3.1.
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\medskip
\nd {\it Dean Luick}, with help from {\it David Cohrs}, developed {\it NetHack\/}
3.1 for X11.
{\it Warwick Allison} wrote a tiled version of {\it NetHack\/} for the Atari;
he later contributed the tiles to the {\it NetHack Development Team} and tile support was
then added to other platforms.
\nd {\it Dean Luick}, with help from {\it David Cohrs}, developed
{\it NetHack\/} 3.1 for X11.
It drew the map as text rather than graphically but
included {\tt nh10.bdf}, an optionally used custom X11 font which has
tiny images in place of letters and punctuation, a precursor of tiles.
Those images don't extend to individual monster and object types, just
replacements for monster and object classes (so one custom image for all
``{\tt a}'' insects and another for all ``{\tt [}'' armor and so
forth, not separate images for beetles and ants or for cloaks and boots).
%.pg
\medskip
\nd {\it Warwick Allison\/} wrote a graphically displayed version
of {\it 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 {\it NetHack Development Team\/} which
rechristened them ``tiles'', original usage which has subsequently been
picked up by various other games.
{\it NetHack's\/} tiles support was then implemented on other platforms
(initially MS-DOS but eventually Windows, Qt, and X11 too).
%.pg
\medskip
@@ -5966,7 +5983,9 @@ available:
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\medskip
{\it Tom Proudfoot} and {\it Yuval Oren} created {\it NetHack++},
which was quickly renamed {\it NetHack$--$}.
which was quickly renamed {\it NetHack$--$\/}
when some people incorrectly assumed that it was a conversion of the
{\it C\/} source code to {\it C++}.
Working independently, {\it Stephen White} wrote {\it NetHack Plus}.
{\it Tom Proudfoot} later merged {\it NetHack Plus}
and his own {\it NetHack$--$} to produce {\it SLASH}.