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Archived news from 12/99. |
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| Friday 31st December 1999 |
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- Last Update. ...of this year at least (I'm not allowed to say millenium as it upsets the anal
retentives out there). Anyhoo, I've been rather quiet what with the festive celebrations but I've managed
to spare an hour or two before tonight's event. A lot of you out there are already enjoying 2000 but I
thought I'd better get an update in before the millenium (oops) bug kills the local communications
network. The update is rather brief as quiet a bit has been going on... chances are you know about a lot of this already. - Cows! A guy called Scott Hammack has decided that there was a distinct lack of bovine related fun in Nethack 3.3.0 and has come up with a patch to correct this oversight. It adds, well, cows. Talkative ones at that. And cowhives. If this sounds right up your street, pop along here and be fulfilled. - Gnomes! GnomeHack is a version of Nethack for GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment). There has been a new version (1.0.5) released by Erik Andersen to bring it into sync with the recent release of Nethack (3.2.3). Oh, and it clonks a few bugs too. - RISC PernAngband. Henry Helliwell releases a new RISC OS version of 'darkgod's PernAngband (v4.0.5) which you can pick up from Henry's page here or grab the file direct from...
- ADOM Release. Not a huge release but more of a preperation version from Thomas Biskup in the shape of ADOM (0.9.9g15). It consists mainly of bug fixes but also include partial monster inventories - in that critters wander around picking things up. At the moment they're not sure about what to do with them but that'll come soon, I'm sure. Thomas recently posted that the ADOM site may be unavailable for a while due to provider problems. - Linuxy Bits. J. Ali Harlow has made available source and i386 binary RPMs for version 0.0.5E7F1 of SLASH'EM. You can find them here. Also, Ben Esacove has created an unofficial RPM for ADOM 0.9.9 gamma 15 which you can find here. - Amiga Bits. Bablos has compiled two variants for the Amiga crowd. They are GSNband (v2.03) and ZAngband (v2.2.8). Here are the files...
- Paranoia Patch. Jonathan Nieder has updated David Damerell's Paranoia patch for Nethack (v3.3.0). The file you need to apply to the source can be found...
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| Thursday 16th December 1999 |
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- Ninevon Preview. Dreir has released a preview version (0.0.4a) of his Visual Basic roguelike, Ninevon : Rogue Adventures. The executable can be downloaded from his project website. Have a look and remember to mail Dreir with your suggestions/bugs. - Bored. If I find that I'm getting a little bored in the run up to Christmas (between wrapping presents and filling out cards), I may begin redrawing the Over tileset from the Development section as 32x32 tiles. Currently, at 16x16, they're a little small and low detail. If anyone is interested, drop me a note. |
| Wednesday 15th December 1999 |
- New ZAngband. ZAngband is out of beta - here comes the stable version. The devteam have finished tweaking and v2.2.8 is now available. As before, the list of changes is monsterously huge and if you didn't have a peek when the beta came out, you can find it here. If it be the files you're wanting, look no further...
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| Tuesday 14th December 1999 |
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- KDE Rogue. KRogue is a version of Rogue for the KDE Unix GUI. It's the work of one Mikolaj Zalewski and is currently on version 0.9.5 so if you have any idea what I'm talking about (I know I don't), you should take a look. - Debian What? As I've already shown my incredible lack of knowledge on everything non-Nice-Mr-Gates shaped, you won't mind if I post this as a quote. It's from Ben Gertzfield about a Debian GNU/Linux version of the recent NetHack (v3.3.0). Here is the post... "I'm happy to announce Debian GNU/Linux packages for Nethack 3.3.0, for both the stable release of Debian, version 2.1 (codename: slink) and the unstable release, version 2.2 (codename: potato). If you're running Debian 2.1, you REALLY REALLY REALLY should upgrade! Previous versions of Nethack were not Y2K-compliant, so your favorite game will go kaput real soon now! Tell your friends about the Debian package for slink! Get it from: http://csl.cse.ucsc.edu/~ben/nethack/stable/ This package will hopefully show up in a security revison of Debian 2.1 soon. If you're running Debian 2.2, you also really really should upgrade. You can grab the package from: http://csl.cse.ucsc.edu/~ben/nethack/unstable/ or you can just do an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade -- it should be distributed throughout the Debian mirror network within a day or two. These packages are slightly patched from the upstream version, to allow save-games and lock files to be put in /var/ instead of /usr/, and have also been patched to fix the small MAILDIR bug present in 3.3.0. Happy Debian Nethacking! Ben Gertzfield" |
| Monday 13th December 1999 |
- NetHack Y2K. Many thanks to the piles of people who dropped me a note about this. Slightly fewer thanks to the ones who ribbed me about page updates. Anyhoo, you've probably heard by now that there are two new versions of NetHack out courtesy of the devteam. The first one is v3.2.3 which contains bugfixes and is Y2K compliant. The idea here is that if your keen to play your current characters beyond 2000, use this version as saves are not compatible with... The second version, v3.3.0, which contains the fixes, the Y2K bits and...
- Mac Move. With Mac Enhanced Angband changing hands, Arcum Dagsson has also moved the site. You'll find the correct location in the link above. Also, Arcum adds that the project has now moved into the beta-testing phase so if you wish to be a tester, contact him for details. - New PernAngband. Version 4.0.5 of PernAngband from 'Darkgod' has been released. Here is a cropped list of changes...
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| Thursday 9th December 1999 |
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- Lost LoTS. Uh-oh. Seems like there was a victim in my system upgrade at the beginning of December - I lost track of a piece of email about Legends Of The Seers. Basically, they have a swish new testbuild (no.3) for you to check out will day/night cycles, improved rendering and landscape objects. Apparently there was a couple of problems but they got sorted so go download it now! |
| Wednesday 8th December 1999 |
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- Monster News. Or, more to the point, a monster newspaper. Erm, slab. Anyhoo, the dwarves and gnomes from Nethack (under the careful supervision of Oisin Curtin) have started their own publication, 'The Minetown Digger'. Go on, take a look. - Boom-Banga-Bang. The mail system here went down the toilet last night and is feeling pretty rough today too so pieces of mail have been going missing, getting bounced and replies haven't been getting out of the building alive. All in all, not a nice situation. Hopefully it won't affect me too much but if you're getting bounces, worry not, we know about it (um, and could you please try again). |
| Tuesday 7th December 1999 |
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- IMoria Demands. The entire Linux community (well, two of them, anyway) have petitioned me to place a link to IMoria (for Linux) by Steve Kertes on the Links page. Being woefully weak willed, I caved instantly and you'll find it there. Oh, and he released a new bug-fix version (4.85.11) just a few days ago so it was worth mentioning. - More TANG. Chris Weisiger's 'The Angband Newbie Guide' (TANG for short) has been updated (v1.7.0) with extra info and more stuff so if you're new to Angband and want your questions answered, pop over to the FAQs section and take a peek. |
| Monday 6th December 1999 |
- Interhack Revisited. Damian Bentley is shifting gears on Interhack and has relocated the website. Infact, he has this to say..."The multi-player version of Nethack, Interhack has moved web sites. Damian Bentley and Chris Allar have been working hard to complete the project, and will soon be looking for teams of testers. If you are interrested please email Damian Bentley."- Back Again. Well, I'm back and I have a new PC at home. Nippy enough to play EQ on and makes the dinosaur I was running before look like a joke. A new logo but I'm not 100% about which ones I've used and which ones I haven't so if you've seen it before, speak up... |