Give an implied explanation for the seemingly odd copyright info in
the source files and the run-time startup banner.
The extra Hack version number, the release dates, and the newsgroup
creation are from
https://homepages.cwi.nl/~aeb/games/hack/hack.html
which is the "Brouwer's /Hack/ page at CWI" external link near the
end of Andries Brouwer's Wikipedia page.
Fix two of the unresolved issues from the previous reconciliation
between dat/history and doc/Guidebook.*: synchronize the list of
devteam members for 3.0 and also the information about Izchak's
death.
Add a description of the Y2K situation. It's been moved to its
own paragraph and rephrased from the earlier draft(s), both the
introduction and a switch from present to past tense. Parentheses
around a whole paragraph look a bit odd but including the paragraph
without them also looks unusual because the context is so different
from adjacent paragraphs. Maybe use "Note: Blah blah..." instead
of "(Blah blah...)"?
Redo the paragraph about 3.0 version numbering since the situation
was more complex than I realized.
Eliminate most of the minor differences between dat/history and the
end section of doc/Guidebook.txt which didn't seem to be intentional.
Several commas, a couple of past/present tense discrepancies, and
various clauses or whole sentences which were in one but not the
other. There are still differences which this doesn't address.
Also a couple of actual changes. Make the Guidebook refer to itself
as "this document" rather than "this paper". Change "dozens of
people's work" to "scores of people's work". Add a new sentence
describing the version numbering scheme used by 3.0, which wasn't
3.0.x yet.
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--".
A bunch of trailing spaces crept in with the most recent udpate;
remove them. Also, most sentences are separated from each other by
two spaces, but 2 or 3 had only one space. Also, rewrap a couple of
the widest lines although none of them were too wide for displaying
within 80 columns.
README - add VMS back as a tested platform; thanks KevinS!
dat/history - add VMS update, remove trailing whitespace, two spaces;
instead of just one (recently added stuff) for sentence separation;
sys/vms/Install.vms - minimal update;
Files - reformat the win32 project section to fit within 80 columns.
Changes to be committed:
modified: dat/history
modified: doc/Guidebook.mn
modified: doc/Guidebook.tex
- include new 3.6.0 beta testers in dungeoneers list
Changes to be committed:
modified: DEVEL/code_features.txt
modified: Files
modified: dat/history
On 4/11/2015 6:45 PM, Dion Nicolaas wrote:
> Errors in text files:
> - DEVEL/code_features.txt, line 10: 'alterting' should be 'alerting'
fixed
> - dat/history: Is it intentional that I'm no longer mentioned as
> maintaining the Windows port? I am for 3.4, but not for 3.6.
fixed
> - Files: The Files file is incomplete. Notably, the new files in dat/
> are missing (bogusmon.txt, engrave.txt, epitaph.txt),
fixed
> the DEVEL directory, doc/Guidebook.*
> - Some files in Files have the wrong case: NetHack.sln,
> NetHackW.vcxproj. I know it doesn't matter on windows but it looks wrong.
fixed
Proposed by Michael Allison.
Seconded by Pat Rankin.
(it can always be withdrawn if there is a later objection)
-Author of Spanish NetHack
-Author of some NT keyboard internationalization fixes
-Author of "Hell patch"
