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Old bones and save files should at least be syntactically correct this time,
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but you should still throw them out if you don't want to be confronted with
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monsters permanently masquerading as different monsters (since some of the
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monsters' letters have changed).
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Note that the posted shop fix was a stopgap patch, not an official patch, so
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it should be reversed before applying these patches. If you do not reverse
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it, probably nothing worse than a failure of one shk.c band will happen this
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time. In general, however, you will have to do considerable hand-patching if
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you leave intermediate patches in.
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The major bug fix in Patch 5 is moving the color definitions to color.h, thus
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breaking the annoying dependency loop when bootstrapping NetHack.
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Patch 5 contains Johnny Lee's provision of a port to the Macintosh. The
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Macintosh files live in a new subdirectory, 'mac'. We know that many of you
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were waiting for a Mac port, and for you we are happy to have it.
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Basic support for several new other compilers or machines (see README), but
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these probably need some more tweaking.
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A major new feature in Patch 5 is timed-out eating, i.e., being able to be
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interrupted while eating by monsters attack. Mike Stephenson provided the
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basic structure for dealing with partially eaten food. We believe that the
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only remaining flaws in this code are occasional non-optimal messages which
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are generated by it (we are working on correcting this).
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Incorrect iron ball behavior and bugs in the iron ball code were
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systematically corrected by Kevin Darcy who communicated with us about it
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and mailed us his patches. (Yes, Kevin, as you can see, it went in, and
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with only one minor change.)
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There were other, smaller, patches which were mailed to us and which were
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implemented. To repeat: we are very happy to receive bug-fixing patches
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and code-enhancement patches. But please do as Kevin did, namely, tell us
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about it in advance.
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Difficulties with dropping objects in shops, burning to death in hell,
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wielding amulets, pets eating corpses were fixed. So were scores of other
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small but annoying bugs.
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MICROPORT_BUG was added to cater to compilers that don't like large
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structures.
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