Allow a way to configure NetHack to run entirely from a USB stick
or other removable device in a way that allows everything to
reside entirely on the USB stick, and nothing on the computer's
hard drive. That could be done in versions prior to 3.6.3.
Sample:
i: is a USB stick
i:\nhdist contains the NetHack Windows distribution and a sysconf
file dropped into that distribution with the following entry in it:
portable_device_top = nethack
No device is included in the portable_device_top entry, the device
is always the device that the nethack exe resides on. If you try
to specify a device in the portable_device_top path, the device
portion will be ignored.
portable_device_top specifies the folder on the device that is writable
by NetHack and as such it cannot be the same folder that the executable
resides in.
i:\nhdist\nethack --showpaths
Variable playground locations:
[hackdir ]="i:\nethack\"
[leveldir ]="i:\nethack\"
[savedir ]="i:\nethack\"
[bonesdir ]="i:\nethack\"
[datadir ]="i:\nhdist\"
[scoredir ]="i:\nethack\"
[lockdir ]="i:\nethack\"
[sysconfdir]="i:\nhdist\"
[configdir ]="i:\nethack\"
[troubledir]="i:\nethack\"
NetHack's system configuration file (in sysconfdir):
"i:\nhdist\sysconf"
The loadable symbols file (in sysconfdir):
"i:\nhdist\symbols"
Basic data files (in datadir) are collected inside:
"i:\nhdist\nhdat363"
No end-of-game disclosure file (disabled).
Writable folder for portable device config (sysconf portable_device_top):
"i:\nethack\"
Your personal configuration file (in configdir):
"i:\nethack\.nethackrc"
Without that sysconf file in the NetHack distribution folder on the
USB stick with the 'portable_device_top = ' entry, the paths
return to the default locations for 3.6.3 on Windows:
i:\nhdist\nethack --showpaths
Variable playground locations:
[hackdir ]="C:\Users\JaneDoe\NetHack\3.6\"
[leveldir ]="C:\Users\JaneDoe\AppData\Local\NetHack\3.6\"
[savedir ]="C:\Users\JaneDoe\AppData\Local\NetHack\3.6\"
[bonesdir ]="C:\ProgramData\NetHack\3.6\"
[datadir ]="i:\nhdist\"
[scoredir ]="C:\ProgramData\NetHack\3.6\"
[lockdir ]="C:\ProgramData\NetHack\3.6\"
[sysconfdir]="C:\ProgramData\NetHack\3.6\"
[configdir ]="C:\Users\JaneDoe\NetHack\"
[troubledir]="C:\Users\JaneDoe\NetHack\3.6\"
NetHack's system configuration file (in sysconfdir):
"C:\ProgramData\NetHack\3.6\sysconf"
The loadable symbols file (in sysconfdir):
"C:\ProgramData\NetHack\3.6\symbols"
Basic data files (in datadir) are collected inside:
"i:\nhdist\nhdat363"
No end-of-game disclosure file (disabled).
Your personal configuration file (in configdir):
"C:\Users\JaneDoe\NetHack\.nethackrc"
Some platforms compile ncurses in such a way that the tinfo library needs to
be separately linked in (e.g. Gentoo).
The tinfo library is a low-level library being used by and bundled with
ncurses.
Adding '-ltinfo' to WINTTYLIB in the hint files was considered the most robust
solution to this problem. This still works on systems with ncurses 5.9.
Using pkg-config was ruled out as the default build of ncurses doesn't install
the necessary files.
Cherry-pick 3.7.0's 565e020573. Again,
conflict because the fixes entry goes into a different file.
When picking up from floor or removing from container fails because
there aren't any inventory slots available, pickup/take-out stops.
But the message
|Your knapsack can't accomodate any more items.
is inaccurate if there is gold beyond the stopping point. Actually
continuing in order to pickup/take-out gold would require substantial
changes, but varying the message to be
|Your knapsack can't accomodate any more items (except gold).
when stopping is a one line fix. The parenthesized remark is only
added if there is actually some gold after the current object and is
given regardless of whether autopickup happens to be targetting it.
Fixes#246
Cherry-pick 3.7.0's 4a3d5f95d9
(github pull request #252). Slightly tricky because the fix entry
nowgoes into a different file. fixes37.0 will need fixing up.
Submitted for 3.7.0; all but one also apply to 3.6.3.
I rewrote the curses terminal-too-small message instead of just
fixing the spelling of "minumum".
It's a minor annoyance when you forget you can't do this in vanilla and
then get relocated somewhere random on the level. Since it's not a
harmful "trap", just allow the adventurer to teleport directly onto it.
Something I noticed in the hardfought diff what looked interesting.
Unfortunately the most interesting bit turns out to be unuseable.
Display high altars (Moloch's Sanctum and the Astral Plane) in
bright-magenta and unaligned altars (aside from the Sanctum one) in
red. Hardfought's code also uses white for lawful, gray for neutral,
and black for chaotic, matching the unicorn colors associated with
the alignments. But those colors don't render in a reliable fashion
(see the comment in mapglyph.c) and become confusing about why they're
used for altars of particular alignments.
Changing from BETA to RELEASED resulted in turning off PANICTRACE
and that exposed a minor memory leak. Only applies to program exit
so doesn't impact play.
When picking up from floor or removing from container fails because
there aren't any inventory slots available, pickup/take-out stops.
But the message
|Your knapsack can't accomodate any more items.
is inaccurate if there is gold beyond the stopping point. Actually
continuing in order to pickup/take-out gold would require substantial
changes, but varying the message to be
|Your knapsack can't accomodate any more items (except gold).
when stopping is a one line fix. The parenthesized remark is only
added if there is actually some gold after the current object and is
given regardless of whether autopickup happens to be targetting it.
Fixes#246
the prompting on Windows wasn't working correctly if a prior game had crashed
and the self-recover feature was trying to kick in. This impacts tty, curses,
and mswin (GUI).
