PatR e30f1b800e history of 'tiles' ...

Warwick did the heavy lifting of the first tiles implementation.  But
I was the one who suggested changing his terminology to "tiles" even
though that doesn't match the term's traditional usage in computer
graphics.  Since then, our [mis-]usage has spread beyond nethack and
its variants.  [This isn't just bragging; I recall several years ago
that someone thought our implementation of tiles for MS-DOS was the
original implementation.  Their search of the newsgroup archives didn't
find Warwick's original announcement--Atari binaries and/or a source
patch in between releases--because the term "tiles" wasn't in use yet.]

I'm not sure whether Dean's font preceded Warwick's icons, but the
concept did.  If the description of their implemenations is backwards
than that bit should be reworded.

Also, add a sentence explaining why NetHack++ "was quickly renamed
NetHack--".

2020-06-20 19:57:53 -07:00

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