windows.c wizard.c worm.c worn.c write.c zap.c
sys/amiga:
- (files for Amiga versions - untested for 3.6.5)
+ (files for Amiga versions - untested for 3.6.6)
Build.ami Install.ami Makefile.agc Makefile.ami NetHack.cnf
amidos.c amidos.p amifont.uu amifont8.uu amigst.c
-amii.hlp amimenu.c amirip.c amisnd.c amistack.c
-amitty.c amiwind.c amiwind.p clipwin.c colorwin.c
-cvtsnd.c grave16.xpm ifchange mkdmake txt2iff.c
-winami.c winami.p winchar.c windefs.h winext.h
-winfuncs.c winkey.c winmenu.c winproto.h winreq.c
-winstr.c xpm2iff.c
+amii.hlp amimenu.c amirip.c amistack.c amitty.c
+amiwind.c amiwind.p clipwin.c colorwin.c grave16.xpm
+ifchange mkdmake txt2iff.c winami.c winami.p
+winchar.c windefs.h winext.h winfuncs.c winkey.c
+winmenu.c winproto.h winreq.c winstr.c xpm2iff.c
sys/atari:
-(files for Atari version - untested for 3.6.6)
+(files for Atari version - untested for 3.7)
Install.tos atarifnt.uue nethack.mnu setup.g tos.c
unx2atar.sed
- NetHack 3.6.6 -- General information March 2020
+ NetHack 3.7.0 work-in-progress -- General information
-NetHack 3.6 is an enhancement to the dungeon exploration game NetHack,
+NetHack 3.7 is an enhancement to the dungeon exploration game NetHack,
which is a distant descendent of Rogue and Hack, and a direct descendent of
-NetHack 3.4 as there was no NetHack 3.5 release.
+NetHack 3.6.
-NetHack 3.6.6 is the official release of NetHack that follows NetHack 3.6.5
-and contains bug fixes since 3.6.5, including a security fix that affected
-versions 3.6.1, 3.6.2, 3.6.3, 3.6.4 and 3.6.5.
+NetHack 3.7.0 work-in-progress is not a release of NetHack. As a .0 version,
+and still very early in its development cycle, there has already been changes
+made, and there will continue to be many more prior to an eventual release.
+The file doc/fixes37.0 in the source distribution will be updated with a list
+of fixes as they are committed.
-The file doc/fixes36.6 in the source distribution has a full list of fixes.
+In short -- there are likely to be bugs. Don't treat NetHack-3.7 branch as
+released code, and if stability is paramount, then the most recent
+NetHack 3.6.5 release is safest for you.
+
+We're making the .0 work-in-progress available so that you can observe, test
+out, and contribute to its development. Constructive suggestions, GitHub pull
+requests, and bug reports are all welcome and encouraged.
+
+The file doc/fixes37.0 in the source distribution has a full list of bug-fixes
+included so far, as well as brief mentions of some of the other code changes.
The text in there was written for the development team's own use and is
-provided "as is", so please do not ask us to further explain the entries in
-that file. Some entries might be considered "spoilers", particularly in the
+provided "as is", so please do not ask us to further explain the entries in
+that file. Some entries might be considered "spoilers", particularly in the
"new features" section.
-Below you will find some other general notes that were not considered
-spoilers:
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- * invalid status highlight color could be maliciously used to corrupt memory
- * formatting corpse names used internal buffers differently from formatting
- * other objects and could potentially clobber memory
- * avoid divide by 0 crash if 'bogusmon' (file of bogus monster types) is empty
- * avoid #wizrumorcheck crash if either 'rumors.tru' or 'rumors.fal' or both
- * were empty when makedefs built 'rumors'
+Along with the game improvements and bug fixes, NetHack 3.7 strives to make
+some general architectural improvements to the game or to its building
+process. Among them:
+
+ * Remove barriers to building NetHack on one platform and operating system,
+ for later execution on another (possibly quite different) platform and/or
+ operating system. That capability is generally known as "cross-compiling."
+ See the file "Cross-compiling" in the top-level folder for more information
+ on that.
+
+ * Replace the build-time "yacc and lex"-based level compiler, the "yacc and
+ lex"-based dungeon compiler, and the quest text file processing done
+ by NetHack's "makedefs" utility, with Lua text alternatives that are
+ loaded and processed by the game during play.
+
+ * Write game savefiles and bonesfiles in a more portable and consistent way
+ to open up the possibility of utilizing them between different platforms,
+ such as between your desktop computer and your hand-held device.
+
+ * Add support to make the game restartable without exit (a.k.a. "play again"
+ support). Toward that end, many previously scattered and separate variables
+ have been gathered into a central 'g' structure in decl.h/decl.c. That
+ will benefit the porting effort to some platforms that are under
+ consideration.
+
+Here are some other general notes on the changes in NetHack 3.7 that were not
+considered spoilers:
+ - automatic annotation "gateway to Moloch's Sanctum" for vibrating square
+ level once that square's location becomes known (found or magic
+ mapped); goes away once sanctum temple is found (entered or high altar
+ mapped)
+ - savefile: add support to deconstruct internal data structures down into
+ their individual fields and save those fields instead of the entire
+ struct
+ - savefile: use little-endian format for fields where that makes a difference
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Please read items (1), (2) and (3) BEFORE doing anything with your new code.
- .\" $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.372 $ $NHDT-Date: 1581817474 2020/02/16 01:44:34 $
-.\" $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6-Mar2020 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.347 $ $NHDT-Date: 1583508684 2020/03/06 15:31:24 $
++.\" $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7-Mar2020 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.347 $ $NHDT-Date: 1583508684 2020/03/06 15:31:24 $
.\"
.\" This is an excerpt from the 'roff' man page from the 'groff' package.
-.\" NetHack's Guidebook.mn currently does *not* adhere to these guidelines.
+.\" Guidebook.mn currently does *not* fully adhere to these guidelines.
.\"|||
.\"| o Never include empty or blank lines in a roff document. Instead, use
.\"| the empty request (a line consisting of a dot only) or a line comment
.ds h0 "NetHack Guidebook
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-.ds vr "NetHack 3.6
+.ds vr "NetHack 3.7
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- .ds f2 "February 17, 2020
+ .ds f2 "March 8, 2020
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\author{Original version - Eric S. Raymond\\
-(Edited and expanded for 3.6 by Mike Stephenson and others)}
+(Edited and expanded for 3.7 by Mike Stephenson and others)}
- \date{February 17, 2020}
+ \date{March 8, 2020}
\maketitle
Original version - Eric S. Raymond
- (Edited and expanded for 3.6 by Mike Stephenson and others)
+ (Edited and expanded for 3.7 by Mike Stephenson and others)
- February 17, 2020
+ March 4, 2020
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- From time to time, some depraved individual out there in
- netland sends a particularly intriguing modification to help out
+ From time to time, some depraved individual out there in
+ netland sends a particularly intriguing modification to help out
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- of the names of the worst of these miscreants in this, the list
+ of the names of the worst of these miscreants in this, the list
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+
- /* NetHack 3.6 rumors.c $NHDT-Date: 1582364450 2020/02/22 09:40:50 $ $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.51 $ */
-/* NetHack 3.6 rumors.c $NHDT-Date: 1583445339 2020/03/05 21:55:39 $ $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6-Mar2020 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.38 $ */
++/* NetHack 3.7 rumors.c $NHDT-Date: 1583445339 2020/03/05 21:55:39 $ $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6-Mar2020 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.38 $ */
/* Copyright (c) Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1985. */
/*-Copyright (c) Robert Patrick Rankin, 2012. */
/* NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. */
exercise(A_WIS, (adjtruth > 0));
} else {
couldnt_open_file(RUMORFILE);
- true_rumor_size = -1; /* don't try to open it again */
+ g.true_rumor_size = -1; /* don't try to open it again */
}
- /* this is safe either way, so do it always since we can't get the definition
- * out of makedefs.c
- */
+
+ /* this is safe either way, so do it always since we can't get the
+ * definition out of makedefs.c
+ */
#define PAD_RUMORS_TO
#ifdef PAD_RUMORS_TO
/* remove padding */
winid tmpwin;
char *endp, line[BUFSZ], xbuf[BUFSZ], rumor_buf[BUFSZ];
- if (true_rumor_size < 0L) { /* we couldn't open RUMORFILE */
+ if (g.true_rumor_size < 0L) { /* we couldn't open RUMORFILE */
- no_rumors:
+ no_rumors:
pline("rumors not accessible.");
- if (rumors)
- (void) dlb_fclose(rumors);
return;
}
long ftell_rumor_start = 0L;
rumor_buf[0] = '\0';
- if (true_rumor_size == 0L) { /* if this is 1st outrumor() */
+ if (g.true_rumor_size == 0L) { /* if this is 1st outrumor() */
init_rumors(rumors);
- if (true_rumor_size < 0L) {
+ if (g.true_rumor_size < 0L)
+ rumors = (dlb *) 0; /* init_rumors() closes it upon failure */
goto no_rumors; /* init failed */
+ }
}
tmpwin = create_nhwindow(NHW_TEXT);
/*
* reveal the values.
*/
-
- Sprintf(
- rumor_buf,
- "T start=%06ld (%06lx), end=%06ld (%06lx), size=%06ld (%06lx)",
- (long) g.true_rumor_start, g.true_rumor_start, g.true_rumor_end,
- (unsigned long) g.true_rumor_end, g.true_rumor_size,
- (unsigned long) g.true_rumor_size);
+ Sprintf(rumor_buf,
+ "T start=%06ld (%06lx), end=%06ld (%06lx), size=%06ld (%06lx)",
- (long) true_rumor_start, true_rumor_start,
- true_rumor_end, (unsigned long) true_rumor_end,
- true_rumor_size, (unsigned long) true_rumor_size);
++ (long) g.true_rumor_start, g.true_rumor_start,
++ g.true_rumor_end, (unsigned long) g.true_rumor_end,
++ g.true_rumor_size,(unsigned long) g.true_rumor_size);
putstr(tmpwin, 0, rumor_buf);
-
- Sprintf(
- rumor_buf,
- "F start=%06ld (%06lx), end=%06ld (%06lx), size=%06ld (%06lx)",
- (long) g.false_rumor_start, g.false_rumor_start, g.false_rumor_end,
- (unsigned long) g.false_rumor_end, g.false_rumor_size,
- (unsigned long) g.false_rumor_size);
+ Sprintf(rumor_buf,
+ "F start=%06ld (%06lx), end=%06ld (%06lx), size=%06ld (%06lx)",
- (long) false_rumor_start, false_rumor_start,
- false_rumor_end, (unsigned long) false_rumor_end,
- false_rumor_size, (unsigned long) false_rumor_size);
++ (long) g.false_rumor_start, g.false_rumor_start,
++ g.false_rumor_end,(unsigned long) g.false_rumor_end,
++ g.false_rumor_size,(unsigned long) g.false_rumor_size);
putstr(tmpwin, 0, rumor_buf);
/*
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