NHDT-Branch: NetHack-5.0 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.0 $ $NHDT-Date: 1778152494 2026/05/07 11:14:54 $

General Fixes and Modified Features
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fix some cross-compile package filenames that still referenced 370 instead
	of 500
Use NHV macro (NHV=500) for filenames in Makefiles and/or hints files to make
	it less likely to overlook or miss them next time
early startup options such as --showpaths could be run non-interactively, so 
	ensure that getret() doesn't prompt and wait for user input
fix issue where the new game startup message was stating 'Work-in-progress'
	even when NH_DEVEL_STATUS was set to NH_STATUS_POSTRELEASE
if 'mention_decor' was set in config file or NETHACKOPTIONS,
	starting the game told you that "you are standing on stairs which lead
	out of the dungeon", even when the player entered the tutorial where that
	wasn't true
doc: use full URL for nethack.org in Guidebook.mn
doc: fix a paste error in Guidebook.tex
doc: fix spelling correction in nethack.6

Platform- and/or Interface-Specific Fixes
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Amiga: fall back to text mode when tile mode is not viable
Amiga: Detect Workbench depth, display-database MaxDepth, and free chip RAM
	if any signals AMIV can't run (e.g. A1000 with 4-colour WB)
Amiga: swap windowprocs to amii_procs before opening any screens
Amiga: disable SYSCF, drop sysconf from package; assure_syscf_file() was
	killing the binary when run outside NetHack: was breaking normal
	launches
Amiga: honor __stack under libnix; reference __stkinit so the linker pulls
	swapstack.o from libnix.a; without it the program runs on the
	inherited shell stack and crashes inside Lua / level-gen
Amiga: provide a real v4 UUID via get_nhuuid
Amiga: ship as a NetHack drawer with drawer icon and README
Amiga: ship Workbench icons for the binary and text files
Amiga: fix misleading fallback warning and stale comment
Amiga: stop rendering CLR_BLACK and CLR_WHITE as inverse video
Amiga: default number_pad:1 in shipped nethack.cnf
Amiga: promote AMIGA_INTUITION to supported so it shows up in version info
Amiga: wire altmeta option to sysflags.altmeta
Amiga: restore glyph icons in menus
Amiga: sys/amiga/README.amiga stated "Extract NH50AMI.ZIP" but it could
	be named something else; added a note about the potential suffix
libnh: update get_nhuuid() for libnhmain
libnh: sys/libnh/libnhmain.c: drop `static` on `whoami()`
libnh: rewrote sys/unix/hints/macOS.500: rewrote the libnh.a rule. The
	`ar rcs libnh.a $(HOBJ) $(LIBNHSYSOBJ) liblua-$(LUA_VERSION).a` had
	four problems: (a) ar archives liblua.a as a single opaque member
	that macOS ld can't dereference, (b) date.o (DATE_O, kept separate
	from HOBJ) was never archived, so `populate_nomakedefs` and
	`nomakedefs` were missing, (c) hacklib.a was likewise omitted, and
	(d) HOBJ already contains $(SYSOBJ) (with unixmain.o) and $(WINOBJ)
	(the tty windowport), which duplicated symbols from libnhmain.o /
	winshim.o.
libnh: sys/libnh/libnhmain.c: gate the emscripten-only code in get_nhuuid
       with `#ifdef __EMSCRIPTEN__` instead of `#ifdef NHUUID`
libnh: sys/unix/hints/macOS.500 in the WANT_LIBNH block, add an explicit
	`recover: lua_support` dependency (gated by MAKEFILE_TOP).  When 
	$(GAME) is overridden to empty, the regular `recover: $(GAME)` chain
	no longer triggers `lua_support`, so include/nhlua.h never gets
	generated and recover.c's transitive #include of hack.h fails
macOS: fix ncurses build with Homebrew
WASM: resolve some build failures in 'make CROSS_TO_WASM=1'
WASM: hints file cross-pre2.500 update to CFLAGS to include -DNHUUID
Windows: don't demand keypress on intentional exit
Windows: correct a NetHack 5.0.0 packaging error if visual studio was
	used; a remnant hard-coded 370 was in package.nmake
Windows: setting any map_mode option in the config file could trigger
	cause app failure on launch by dereferencing a null pointer


General New Features
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Platform- and/or Interface-Specific New Features
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NetHack Community Patches (or Variation) Included
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NCURSES_CFLAGS was being ignored when using hints/linux.500 with only
	WANT_WIN_TTY=1 and not WANT_WIN_CURSES=1  (pr #1522 by torakoya)


Code Cleanup and Reorganization
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add Contributing.md with some guidelines for making a pull request that
	is in an acceptable format