Archived news from 02/01.
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- Officially Veg'in. I've got a few days booked off next week so there may not be any page updates until mid-week. On the other hand, if it's a really slow week, pretend I'm sat at my PC itching to make updates but unable to. It might feel like I'm not slacking that way.
- PsiAngband Surfaces. After a year in the shadows, a new version (1.2.0) of PsiAngband from Matthias Kurzke is available. As the release info says, send bug reports to mawende@gmx.net and comments concerning the *_info.txt files to jonathan@franz-liszt.freeserve.co.uk. Here are the changes...
- Some new monster attack types (like "touch to drain mana" or "release spores to cause hallucinations").
- General code cleanup, including better integration of psionics with the rest of the game (some psi effects are now available through artifacts or potions for everybody).
- Rebalancing of psionics (including removal of domination and shadowform).
- Precognition is now much weaker.
- Poison branded weapons.
- Light branded weapons.
- New pseudo-ID system (including Amulets of Sensing).
- x5 KILL-DEMON and KILL_UNDEAD weapons.
- The PsiAngband versions of JLE's info files (of course, since he's the co-maintainer), including a Kobold Race, new ego-items, new artifacts, lots of new monsters... there's a lot to discover!
- Psi Resistance can appear as a random high resist.
- Gravity, Force and Inertia resistance have been removed.
- A couple of new artifact activations was added; the activations were redistributed and are nicer now.
- A couple of bugs were fixed.
- ftp://clockwork.dementia.org/angband/Variant/PsiAngband/psiband120-win.zip = Win32 Binary.
- ftp://clockwork.dementia.org/angband/Variant/PsiAngband/psiband120-src.zip = Source.
- Finalized various compile time options.
- Cleaned up command switches and implemented several new ones.
- Fixed silly logic problem with Corona messaging.
- Put back
in ouch.cc for DOS users. - Print_description now much nicer for DOS (limits to 53 or 54 chars).
- Elven wizards shouldn't start with orcish equipment any more (flimsy code)
- A couple lack-of-space messages cleaned up.
- Added newlines to a couple source files for those compilers that care about such things.
- Removed #include
for systems that don't have it. - Fixed FixedVector initialization problem in spells3.cc
- The "other five gods" now say hello in various flavors if always_greet is on.
- Put '-O2 -fno_strength_reduce' in gcc makefiles
- Scorefile is now delimited ASCII. Use 'crawl -scores' to get a highscore list, and see externs.h for scorefile_entry structure to see what is now being tracked on player death.
- Fixed some typos(?) in mutation.cc which lead to non-nagas getting poison cloud mutation.
- Files should (finally!) be cleaned up on death in DOS.
- Fixed up, completely this time, monster spell casting: no more getting hellfired by orc priests, and no more game crashing (he said, crossing all his fingers and toes).
- Quokkas now have mass (200, as someone suggested).
- Fixed logic error in 'recall()' function.
- Items (including gold) stack better.
- Merfolk should be able to choose the Hunter profession now.
- Wielded potions should once again disappear from the screen when quaffed.
- Scrolls of immolation, and various other explosion effects, are no longer treated as non-damaging tracers by the explosion code (oops!).
- Entering level 27 is no longer guaranteed to crash the game.
- Staff of smiting now recognized by fight.cc
- Casting apportation on a pile of gold (or other massless items) no longer crashes the game.
- Draconian hunters no longer have messed up starting equipment.
- Teleport_monster() cleaned up a bit to be more readable, but I didn't find any logic errors while doing so.
- Buggy darts should no longer be generated by items().
- Missiles of fire, ice, and poison should be a little rarer than before on shallow levels, and a little more common on deeper ones.
- Orcish ammo is no longer _always_ poisoned (but is still pretty common).
- ftp://ftp.dungeoncrawl.org/LATEST/devteam/cr400pr8-w32.zip = Win32 Binary.
- ftp://ftp.dungeoncrawl.org/LATEST/devteam/cr2001feb20src.zip = Source.
- Tweaked the initial towns and their surroundings to make them more hospitable to starting characters.
- Tweaked item distribution to make weapons more common in the deeper dungeon and bad items less common generally.
- Neither vaults nor random artifacts will be generated when in ironman_moria mode.
- Changed the pick-up prompt to (y/n/k) where 'k' will destroy the item.
- Water in the wilderness is no longer lit at night.
- If an invisible monster drops a corpse when killed, the kill counter is incremented.
- Added additional shopkeepers for each special building.
- Added additional context sensitive help for the birth process and for debugging commands. Minor fixes and updates to the help files.
- Added an experimental main-xpj.c file which uses a projected 3d view (pre-alpha, do not use).
- Added Debian and OpenBSD (needs testing) options to the standard makefile.
- Updated mask.bmp and the graphics pref files.
- Fixed an error in the calculation of activation energy for magical devices.
- Fixed some loopholes in the imnplementation of the recall code.
- Fixed a bug which prevented ego ammo from stacking properly.
- Fixed a bug with the graphics tiles for shop and building doors.
- Fixed a bug allowing
of Resist Acid to be created. - Fixed a bug with the ancestral kill count.
- Fixed a problem with roguelike commands in the special buildings.
- Fixed the bug which occasionally crashed the game when monsters stole from the player.
- Fixed the mutatalist so it shows you the altered prices as you gain and lose mutations.
- The Cygwin makefile will now produce executables that work without the "cygwin1.dll".
- ftp://clockwork.dementia.org/angband/Variant/ZAngband/zangband-254-dos.zip = DOS Binary.
- ftp://clockwork.dementia.org/angband/Variant/ZAngband/zangband-254-win.zip = Win32 Binary.
- ftp://clockwork.dementia.org/angband/Variant/ZAngband/zangband-254-src.zip = Source.
- ftp://clockwork.dementia.org/angband/Amiga/angband-292-ami.lha = Angband 2.9.2
- ftp://clockwork.dementia.org/angband/Variant/PernAngband/pernangband-415-ami.lha = PernAngband 4.1.5
- ftp://clockwork.dementia.org/angband/Variant/ZAngband/zangband-253b-ami.lha = ZAngband 2.5.3
- ftp://clockwork.dementia.org/angband/Windows/angband-292-win.zip = Win32 Binary.
- HackStat Address. HackStat, the NetHack high-scores site has not only revamped itself, it's also tweaked it's address so if your link isn't pointing to the link given here, you might want to change it. Do it! Do it NOW!
- New PernAngband. A new version (v4.1.5) of PernAngband has been released by 'Darkgod'. Here are the changes...
- Added fountains that you can quaff from ('H' in normal mode, 'V' in roguelike mode)
- Added the Iain McFall Show Monster patch to show all viewable monsters.
- God's blasts can't be reflected anymore, so beware, puny mortal !!! :)
- Added a whole bunch of new floor features (ice, mud, sand, sandwalls, ...) thanks to Static Chaos.
- More spell effect will affect the dungeon.
- Cleaned up the feature code again.
- The wilderness map is no longer fully known, you have to explorate it.
- Maps can be found to reveal some places of the wilderness.
- Level gaining Artifacts have been significantly towned down.
- Sauron lost his chances to drop The One Ring.
- Your god wont always resurect you even if you have enough piety.
- When leaving it's corpse Possessor's equipment will be dropped to floor to prevent them form being "lost".
- Sandworm lair, a new dungeon.
- Staffs of wishing now only have 1 charge.
- Gods now need more sacrifices.
- The Sandworm Queen will now drop the Sandworm armour when killed.
- Now you can separate a dungeon entrance from a dungeon exit on the wilderness map using the WILD_ix_iy__ox_oy flag in d_info.txt.
- Dungeons & Monsters can now have object themes.
- Ego Monsters, yes like Ego items but for monsters.
- Beastmasters have been give access to the Tribal realm, they Beastmaster's powers are now available throught the 'U' key.
- Player Raise death spells will now really create an undead.
- Narya activation is now Healing (500).
- Nenya activation is now Healing (800).
- Vilya activation is now Healing (900) and cure Black Breath.
- Daemonologists can now wield their books (in the weapon slot), when used this way, spells are cast in 1/3 of a turn otherwise it takes 5 turns.
- Specialized ESP, like Orc ESP, Troll ESP, Dragon ESP, ...
- ftp://clockwork.dementia.org/angband/Variant/ZAngband/zangband-253-dos.zip = DOS Binary.
- ftp://clockwork.dementia.org/angband/Variant/ZAngband/zangband-253-win.zip = Win32 Binary.
- ftp://clockwork.dementia.org/angband/Variant/ZAngband/zangband-253-src.zip = Source.
- Patch This! If you've got a hankering for the recent slew of Nethack patches but don't have the know-how to compile your own MSDos binary, you should pop along to Philipp Lucas' Nethack site. If you want a list of the patches applied, check out this link.
- More Isometric. A new release from Hansjörg Malthaner means that this version (0.2.0) of his isometric Angband, Iso-Angband has a number of new images, re-worked walls and new-improved doors :). There is a screenshot of the changes on the project homepage so pop along if you're suitably intrigued.
- Changed the configure process so that the default install is a local install without setgid that doesn't require root-privileges. For a multi-user install use the new --with-setgid=groupname option of the configure script.
- Exiting the curses version cleans up the term now.
- The "low hitpoint warning" is now properly displayed.
- Added extra paranoia when loading the shop owners.
- The Windows version checks for the existence of lib/pref/ now.
- Made the 'Crown' vault a "Greater vault".
- Fixed a security hole that allowed the user to read all files that are readable by group games (if running setgid).
- Changed the handling of file permissions from "allow by default" to "deny by default".
- The maximum player level was not properly updated in some cases with drained experience.
- Changed the initialization of the lib/data/*.raw files to make sure that players can't write the files.
- The player can no longer read or write his own savefiles outside the game to prevent cheating and possible security problems.
- The XAW and X11 versions start with a single open window by default.