Files
nethack/doc/fixes36.1
PatR 2219a6a667 naming artifacts vs illiteracy
Requested by a beta tester back in June:  naming Sting or Orcrist
violates illiterate conduct.  I left it at that; any object naming
could be construed as being literate, but I don't think breaking
conduct for doing such would be a good idea.
2015-12-12 01:55:44 -08:00

47 lines
2.0 KiB
Groff

$NHDT-Branch$:$NHDT-Revision$ $NHDT-Date$
General Fixes and Modified Features
-----------------------------------
doc/*.6 man pages and corresponding doc/*.txt text copies were out of date
data.base entry for "lava" had wrong first name for Don Woods' attribution
cursed genocide of "none" sent in monsters, but "that's enough tries" didn't
update MAXPLAYERS documentation in sysconf file and allow 0 for it
wizard mode: don't include feedback about named fruit for ^X and enlightenment
looking at distant objects while wearing the Eyes of the Overworld made their
up-close descriptions known when not intended
message when cursed wand zapped by a monster happens to explode was suppressed
if hero was deaf, even though that message has no audible component
support explicit 'symset:default' and 'symset:Default symbols' in options
crash during startup if player name set as 'player' in defaults
any existing vampire shape-shifted into critter (fog cloud, bat, wolf) became
an unkillable critter if vampires were genocided
Platform- and/or Interface-Specific Fixes
-----------------------------------------
unix/X11: in top level Makefile, some commented out definitions of VARDATND
misspelled pilemark.xbm (as pilemark.xpm)
win32gui: getversionstring() was overflowing the provided Help About buffer
win32gui: guard against buffer overflow in in mswin_getlin()
MacOSX: initial binary release was built from out of date source code that
had 'BETA' and 'DEBUG' inappropriately enabled
X11: core bug for '`' (backtick) command was only noticed by X11 interface,
which issued impossible message "add_menu: called before start_menu"
General New Features
--------------------
naming Sting or Orcrist now breaks illiterate conduct
Platform- and/or Interface-Specific New Features
------------------------------------------------
NetHack Community Patches (or Variation) Included
-------------------------------------------------
Code Cleanup and Reorganization
-------------------------------