o Add support for zlib compression via ZLIB_COMP in config.h (ZLIB_COMP
and COMPRESS are mutually exclusive).
o rlecomp and zerocomp are run time options available if RLECOMP and
ZEROCOMP are defined, but not turned on by default if either COMPRESS
or ZLIB_COMP are defined.
o Add information to the save file about internal compression options
used when writing the save file, particularly rlecomp and zerocomp
support.
o Automatically adjust rlecomp and zerocomp (if support compiled in)
when reading in an existing savefile that was saved with those options
turned on. Still allows writing out of savefile in preferred format.
o In order to support zlib and not conflict with compress and uncompress
routines there, the NetHack internal functions were changed to
nh_uncompress and nh_compress as done in the zlib contribution received
in 1999 from <Someone>.
I tagged the sources NETHACK_3_5_0_PREZLIB prior to applying these
changes.
As reported, you'd get the "float gently to the ground" message even while
riding a flying steed. Rearranged the code and added a new case for this.
I found it odd that Hallucination protected you from falling out of the
saddle due to the Sokoban air currents. The message implied otherwise, so
I've made the sokoban_trap code apply in both cases.
<Someone> reported that if you polymorph into a flying monster while in a
pit, you must take u.utrap turns to first climb out before you can fly. Of
course, once you're out, you can swoop down into the pit to pick things up
w/o delay. Rather that have you automatically fly out (e.g. like quaffing
a potion of levitation), I thought it was better to take a turn to fly out,
so that's what I've implemented.
The code to deal with exiting a pit is moved to a new climb_pit function
and the "up" command now lets you climb from a pit too (something I've
found non-intuitive in the past).
Finally, I noticed that non-moving monsters could still go up/down even
though they couldn't move around. Added non-moving checks in doup/dodown.
move the message so it's before the mintrap test. newsym's are needed
to ensure the display is correct if a --More-- prompt results. I left the
"frighten" message alone, except for tense. As per Pat's suggestion, I
changed the wording to future-proof the message.
Support negation syntax to restrict unwanted race, role, gender, align
options:
OPTIONS=role:!knight, role:!tourist, race:!orc
prevents them from being picked randomly or
appearing in the pick lists at the start of the game.
I found I was no longer able to start "nethack", I think due to the change
in the save file structure. But, it looks like the Unix-specific check in
bufon() was never quite correct. I'd have to guess we've been lucky up
until now.
<Someone>, I think, noticed there was no copyright on the window.doc.
Add one. I don't recall when I originally wrote it, but I last changed
it in 2003, so that's the year I'm putting in. Anyone else that wants to
share the blame, please add your name and update the year as needed.
This is a followup to the patch I made a couple months ago. It replaces
the "!Levitation && !u.uswallow" checks with can_reach_floor(), which
makes a more complete set of checks and is more consistent. I applied
this to fountains too. I doubt that fountains hit the ceiling, and the
checks also seem reasonable for heights in between (e.g. while mounted).
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 12:04:29 +0000, <email deleted> wrote:
> Dear NetHack win32 developers,
>
> This bug does not affect the win32 binaries that you distribute but it
> does affect NetHack 3.4.3 if I build it from source. The difference may
> be due to different compilers or whatever. I'm using mingw32-gcc v3.2
>
> I don't quite understand what's going on (I never was much good at
> win32 programming), but it appears that the WM_KEYDOWN message for
> AltGr-4 is being translated into a WM_CHAR message with a wParam of
> 128. I don't understand why that should be, but anyway. The problem
> then occurs when NetHack casts wParam to char which, since char is
> signed, gives -128. onListChar() then passes -128 to isdigit() which
> causes the crash. The fix appears to be to simply drop the cast:
Also
> <email deleted>
> Newsgroups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack
> Subject: Changing tile set for item list?
> Date: 1 Jan 2005 20:03:08 -0800
> <email deleted>
>
> I'm using the windows interface for Nethack 3.4, and I've successfully
> changed the tileset used by changing defaults.nh. The only problem is,
> the item list (i.e. The list that comes up when I press "i") still uses
> the old tiles. Is there any way to change the list so it uses the new
> tiles? I've searched the guidebook to no avail. I'm debating if it is
> even possible.
>
> Thanks for the help,
> -Zmann
trunk patch:
- menu: display custom tiles if map is not ASCII
- menu: display '-'/'+'/'#' in place of a tile if map is ASCII
- fix isdigit() crash on AltGr-4 with mingw
It looks kinda weird with huge tiles (e.g. absurd96) but that could
be just me. Comments/suggestions are welcome.
-<Someone>
- always write plname into save file, no longer conditional
- add 'selectsaved' wincap option to control the display of
a menu of save files for ports/platforms that support it.
- add support for win32 tty using normal nethack menus.
- the win/tty/wintty code is generalized enough that any
tty port could support the option if the appropriate port-specific
code hooks for wildcard file lookups are added to src/file.c
specifically in the get_saved_games() routine. There is posix
code in there from Warwick already, and there is findfirst/findnext
code in there from win32. Warwick has the posix code only
enabled for Qt at present, but with wintty support, that could be expanded
to other Unix environments quite easily I would think.
Here is what the tty support looks like:
NetHack, Copyright 1985-2005
By Stichting Mathematisch Centrum and M. Stephenson.
See license for details.
Select one of your saved games
a - Bob
b - Fred
c - June
d - mine3
e - Sirius
f - Start a new character
(end)
The following files existed in the NetHack SAVEDIR directory
at the time:
ALLISONMI-Bob.NetHack-saved-game
ALLISONMI-Fred.NetHack-saved-game
ALLISONMI-June.NetHack-saved-game
ALLISONMI-mine3.NetHack-saved-game
ALLISONMI-Sirius.NetHack-saved-game
Note that despite the file names, the actual character name
is drawn from the savefile.
The WIN32CON support passes
USER-*.NetHack-saved-game
to findfirst/findnext where USER is your login name of course.
Since the trunk breaks savefile compatibility anyway,
remove some code that was inappropriately loading a boolean
with multiple values in order to preserve savefile compatibility in 3.4.x
[Note: this patch increments EDITLEVEL rendering existing bones
and save files obsolete]
This is a minor addition to Pat's doorganize() patch.
This just allows you to press '?' in the midst of an #adjust command
to see what letters are already in use. It is a PICK_NONE menu for
viewing only, because your actual response to the #adjust must not
be limited to the letters already used. It helps to be able to see
what's already consumed without having to terminate the command,
inventory, then start it again.
Bug Report:
>> Status of the doppelganger (neutral): Level 13 HP 1433(1433) AC 5.
>> [See the HPs!! ]
Michael:
> I used a debugger and traced this massive hit point growth
> to this line in mon.c, function newcham(). (I watched the mhp
> jump from 58 to 567 with this one calculation!
>> Ah, I see that this problem is fixed in the trunk but still present in
>> the branch. This seems serious/abusive enough to warrant the fix to be
>> applied to the branch too, doesn't it?
Pat:
> I don't think it's all that important but you're welcome to
> extract and adapt the patch if you like.
From a bug report:
> If the Summon Nasties monster spell gates in two minions instead of one,
> the message still says "A monster appears from nowhere!"
The code wasn't counting any summoned monsters who had an opposite alignment
to the summoner. It also assumed that the 10% chance for demon summoning
in Gehennom always yielded exactly one monster even though that can produce
zero or more than one.
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:07:14 +1300, <email deleted> wrote:
> Adding one of several candles to a candelabrum which already has six
> gives an ungrammatical message.
<Someone> wrote:
> From the mkclass() comments:
>
> /* Assumption #2: monsters of a given class are presented in ascending
> * order of strength.
> */
>
> And monst.c:
>
> * Rule #2: monsters of a given class are presented in ascending
> * order of strength.
>
> * Rule #4: monster subclasses (e.g. giants) should be kept
> * together, unless it violates Rule 2. NOGEN monsters
> * won't violate Rule 2.
>
> Inspecting my monster-difficulty spoiler, I see the following places
> that these precepts are violated: do they cause potential problems?
> (Insofar as occasionally incorrectly miscalculating the probabilities
> for monster generation is a "problem", that is...)
>
> SPECIES DIF
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~
> d dog 5
> d large dog 7
> d dingo 5
>
> d warg 8
> d winter wolf cub 7
> d winter wolf 9
>
> u white unicorn 6
> u gray unicorn 6
> u black unicorn 6
> u pony 4
>
> H frost giant 13
> H storm giant 19
> H ettin 13
>
> P black pudding 12
> P green slime 8
>
> S pit viper 9
> S python 8
> S cobra 10
>
> Z giant zombie 9
> Z ghoul 5
>
> @ nurse 13
> @ soldier 8
> @ sergeant 10
>
> & horned devil 9
> & succubus 8
>
> & balrog 20
> & sandestin 15
>
> (I've just realised that these may have already been fixed, and
> waiting on a file-compatibility-breaking release; if so, ignore me :-)
<Someone> wrote:
>> If the previous character was non-neutral, the unicorn would have
>> started off as hostile. When a bones file is loaded, I don't think
>> hostiles are made non-hostile, although the reverse is certainly true
>> (pets of the deceased are usually hostile).
>
> In the general case, they are, or rather their hostility is
> re-evaluated with respect to the new character; see the peace_minded()
> call in getlev(). However, co-aligned unicorns always being created
> peaceful is a special case in makemon(), _not_ part of peace_minded(),
> so they'd just have the usual chance of being made peaceful or not
> depending on alignment strength, as for any other co-aligned monster
> not explicitly declared always peaceful or always hostile.
<Someone> wrote:
> The "/* Fix up the quest nemesis */" code in role_init()
> adds M3_WAITFORU but _doesn't_ remove M3_CLOSE;
> since the Master of Thieves as the Rogue Quest Leader is
> defined with that flag, he keeps it when acting as the Tourist
> Quest Nemesis. Thus, when STRAT_WAITFORU
> is cleared by your actions, STRAT_CLOSE may stay in
> place making him stay meditating when another Nemesis
> wouldn't.
