Changeset 18

Timestamp:

03/27/07 18:38:20 (2 years ago)

Author:

takkaria

Message:

Some more assorted changes, in order of importance:

• new splash screen
  
• remove a load of the old changes from changes.txt
  
• add a new lib/readme.txt file, with some semi-useful information in it
  
• update the readme a bit, still a work in progress
  
• always use sizeof() when passing buffer sizes to askfor_aux()
  
• nuke the TODO file, we have a bugtracker now
  
• make the claim that I'm now the maintainer
  

+208 lines, -1254 lines, -1046 net.

Files:

• trunk/Makefile.in (modified) (1 diff)
• trunk/TODO (deleted)
• trunk/changes.txt (modified) (2 diffs)
• trunk/compile.txt (modified) (1 diff)
• trunk/lib/Makefile.am (modified) (1 diff)
• trunk/lib/Makefile.in (modified) (1 diff)
• trunk/lib/file/news.txt (modified) (1 diff)
• trunk/lib/readme.txt (added)
• trunk/readme.txt (modified) (3 diffs)
• trunk/src/cmd4.c (modified) (7 diffs)
• trunk/src/squelch.c (modified) (3 diffs)

trunk/Makefile.in

@@ -38 +38 @@
-DIST_COMMON = $(am__configure_deps) $(srcdir)/Makefile.am \
-        $(srcdir)/Makefile.in $(top_srcdir)/configure AUTHORS COPYING \
-ChangeLog THANKS TODO config.guess config.sub depcomp
-install-sh missing 
+THANKS config.guess config.sub depcomp install-sh missing
+
-subdir = .
-ACLOCAL_M4 = $(top_srcdir)/aclocal.m4

trunk/changes.txt

@@ -1 @@
-, beta 
+
-Suggestions and (more) patches welcomed.
-
@@ -60 +60 @@
-- Add the recharging fix from V CVS -- things can now explode when you
-  recharge them once more.
-
-
-Changes Angband 3.0.6:
-- Wands and staves are no longer destroyed when a recharge attempt
-  backfires.  Instead all the charges are drained.
-- Renamed the artifact short sword 'Gilettar' to 'Dagmor' since that
-  name is mentioned for the sword of Beren in Tolkien's notes.
-  (suggested by Tyler Witter)
-- Added a new type of subwindow for displaying the dungeon area around
-  the player.
-- Added a new subwindow type "Display player (compact)" that displays
-  the left-hand-side of the main term (player stats, hitpoints, gold,
-  ...) in a separate window.
-- Added a new window type that displays the info from the status line.
-- Turned the "scroll map while targetting" option permanently on.
-- Added a display of the temporary resists to the status line.  The
-  resists are only displayed if there is enough room after the dungeon
-  level (when using a main or status term with at least 85 cols).
-  The verbosity of the output (between "Acid Elec Fire Cold Pois" and
-  "AEFCP") depends on the term width.
-- Display the player's speed in the character dump and on the info page.
-- Identified scrolls can now look different from unidentified ones.
-  This allows the use of the individual scroll tiles created by David
-  Gervais.
-- Allow the ammo-branding activation of 'Cubragol' to be aborted without
-  using up the charge. (Diego Gonzalez and Jeff Greene)
-- Use actual monster and object symbols instead of a list of hardcoded
-  symbols when hallucinating.
-- Added Craig Oliver's Sound FX Patch version 1.1 that adds about 120
-  new sound events to the game.
-  (see also http://www.chambrook.org/angband/soundfx.php)
-- Scroll the map when the player is 1/4th of the visible grids away from
-  the edge of the map display.
-- Allow the OS X version to be started from a read-only medium, for
-  example from a disk image or a central installation under
-  'Applications'.  All user-specific files like savefiles, scores,
-  char-dumps, and saved preferences are stored in
-  'Library/Preferences/Angband/' and its subfolders inside the user's
-  home directory.
-- The Mac OS X application bundle now includes all the necessary files
-  from the lib folder.  The separate lib folder in the distribution is
-  no longer necessary.  This means that the OS X version can now be
-  installed by simply dragging the application icon to the target
-  directory.
-- The OS X version would crash when changing the sound or graphics
-  options before a character was created or loaded. (reported by Patrick
-  Hughes)
-- Don't save the Mac OS X preferences on exit if the game hasn't been
-  initialized properly to prevent corruption of the preference file in
-  case of an error at startup.  Skip loading the preference file if it
-  is broken. (problem reported by Matt Stone)
-- Include the basic Angband sound files per default in the OS X version.
-- Made the tile size independent of the font size in the X11 version.
-  Store various window settings like the window size between sessions.
-- Don't add a hardcoded 'games' subdirectory to the installation path on
-  multi-user machines.
-- Allow all user created files to be saved in subdirectories under
-  ~/.angband/Angband/ when PRIVATE_USER_PATH is defined.
-- Allow the use of the 'vcs' display module on systems with devfs-style
-  '/dev/vc/*' terminals.
-- The virtual console (vcs) front-end does now implement cursor
-  visibility and bigscreen support.  (Alexander Ulyanov)
-- Enable cursor visibility in the "gcu" front-end on Linux systems.
-  (Alexander Ulyanov)
-- Fixed a bug in the Xaw frontend, which made Angband crash if the main
-  window geometry was specified as an X resource. (Alexander Ulyanov)
-- Make X11 frontends show floors as centered dots, walls as blocks, and
-  treasures as diamonds. (Alexander Ulyanov)
-- Removed the restriction of bigtile mode to the main window in the X11
-  version.
-- Added Alexander Ulyanov's Linux framebuffer display module from:
-  http://posband.earthsea.org/misc/angband-lfb-20050220.tar.gz
-- Added compile instructions for MinGW/MSYS on Windows. (Tuomas
-  Härkönen)
-- Added compile instructions for gcc on Mac OS X.
-- Fixed a stupid bug that could cause the game to hang or crash when
-  killing quest monsters near the edge of the dungeon. (Ivan Tuckwell
-  and Dr. Andrew White)
-- Added missing tiles and tile assignments for the 32x32 tiles. (Ivan
-  Jekic and David Gervais)
-- The charges of rods of perception weren't handled correctly when
-  compiling with scripting turned off. (reported by "Twilight" and Jeff
-  Greene)
-- Cursed speed rings should not increase the level feeling. (Anssi
-  Ramela and Jeff Greene)
-- Refresh the list of visible monsters after (Mass) Banishment,
-  Earthquake, and Destruction spells, when using the 'delete nearby
-  monsters' function in debug mode, as well as when pressing Ctrl-R.
-  ("Twilight")
-- Don't try to write zero-length blocks when saving the lib/data/*.raw
-  files. (suggested by Juha Niemimaki)
-- Corrected the item description for scrolls of recharging. (reported by
-  Hugo Kornelis)
-- Fixed a Angband 3.0.6 alpha 1 specific crash with the Mac OS X 10.4
-  (Tiger) caused by releasing a reference that should not be released.
-  (reported by Harry Erwin)
-- The experience loss as a result of one of the One Ring's activations
-  is now 1/4 of both max and current experience instead of the
-  unintended reduction of max exp by 3/16 of the current experience.
-  (Hugo Kornelis)
-- Cleaned up the handling of experience draining when the player has
-  Hold Life. The fixed part of the exp drain by nether breaths is now
-  also reduced by Hold Life. (Hugo Kornelis)
-- The 'star ball' activation fired one ball more when scripting was
-  enabled.  (Hugo Kornelis)
-- The object description for the 'cure wounds' activation reads
-  "activates for cure wounds (4d7)", but it actually cures 4d8 points of
-  damage.  The description has been fixed. (Hugo Kornelis)
-- The "recharge item" artifact activation can now be canceled at the
-  "Recharge which item" prompt without draining the artifact's charge.
-  (Hugo Kornelis)
-- The symbol for the Shield of Deflection was a light blue [ instead of
-  a ) like all other shields. (Hugo Kornelis)
-- Reduced the price for "Raal's Tome of Destruction". (Hugo Kornelis and
-  Timo Pietila)
-
-Changes in Angband 3.0.5:
-- Summoned creatures appear near the caster now instead of near the
-  player.
-- Made rods of detection invulnerable to electric attacks.
-- Restored the old behavior of the Glyph of Warding to protect against
-  direct melee attacks when standing on it.
-- Rods can no longer be drained by monsters.
-- The minor vault "Interlock" had switched height and width definitions,
-  causing it to be created in a chaotic state. (Werner Baer)
-- Spells that prompt the user for an item (identify, enchantment,
-  recharging) or an monster letter (banishment) no longer use mana if
-  canceled.
-- The order of mage spells in the books in the non-Lua version is now
-  the same as in the Lua version.
-- Give energy to monsters and the player at the end of the game turn
-  instead of at the start.  This prevents various odd effects when
-  loading a saved game. (reported by Phil)
-- The activation descriptions for rings were missing with Lua scripting
-  turned off. (Jeff Greene)
-- The SHATTER (earthquake) attack of monsters can cause the player to be
-  pushed into another position.  Processing of the remaining blows of
-  the monster should stop in that case. Otherwise the player could get
-  hit "through a wall" that was created by the earthquake. (Jeff Greene)
-- Removed the autoroller delay.
-- Cleaned up the paragraph handling in the object descriptions.
-  (Hallvard B Furuseth)
-- "It cannot be harmed by acid and fire" should be "... acid *or* fire".
-  (Hallvard B Furuseth)
-- Piles of wands, staves, and rods can be used from the ground without
-  picking them up first.
-- Fixed a problem in the Unix/Linux makefiles.  The POSIX standard
-  doesn't allow a dot instead of a colon as separator for the chown
-  parameters.
-- Removed an accidental use of floating point code that prevented
-  Angband from running on old machines without an FPU.
-- Removed unnecessary event handlers that negativly affected performance.
-- The "pseudo graphics" used by the (n)curses version didn't support
-  terrain lightning correctly.
-- The window resize control was sometimes overwritten with a black tile
-  in the OS X version.
-- Removed the warning message about missing preferences from the OS X
-  version.  The first thing a new player sees after starting Angband
-  shouldn't be a "scary" message.
-- Added a Windows helpfile created by Jordan Hobbs.
-- Added project files for building Angband with MS Visual C++ 7.1.
-  (Tasha Jessup)
-
-Changes in Angband 3.0.4:
-- Made the water vortex immune to water-based attacks.
-- Chaos resistance protects against confusion by chaos based attacks.
-- Smoothed out the tables for extra mana-points per level, hitpoint
-  bonus from constitution, "spells per level" vs. "spell stat", and
-  INT/WIS dependent failure rate adjustment.  The old steps have been
-  replaced by a steady increase, so small stat improvements are more
-  useful.  Please note that this will also affect characters imported
-  from older versions, so these might gain or lose some spells, mana,
-  and hitpoints when imported into Angband 3.0.4.
-- Gave the 'thanc daggers a 2d4 damage dice instead of 1d4 and made them
-  more common. (Jonathan Ellis)
-- Gave each of the Paur* gauntlets a single minor power (slow-digestion,
-  regeneration, permanent light, feather fall) and made them more
-  common. (Jonathan Ellis)
-- Rods, wands, and staves with different charges can now be stacked.
-  (based on the NPPAngband version that in turn is based on
-  Leon Marrick's rod/wand stacking in OAngband.
-- Rods can't be recharged anymore, but can be vulnerable to electricity.
-- Rods of Recall, Perception, Curing, Healing, Restoration, and Speed
-  will not be destroyed by electricity.
-- Made Raal's Tome of Destruction more, and Kelek's Grimoire of Power
-  less common. (Timo Pietilä)
-- Heavy crossbows no longer can get the 'of the Haradrim' suffix and
-  'light crossbows of the Haradrim' get a smaller damage bonus. (Timo
-  Pietilä)
-- Removed fire brand from ammo 'of Holy Might'. (Timo Pietilä)
-- Give the short range teleport effect from gravity attacks on monsters
-  an additional 1 in 3 chance to teleport the monster away.  This should
-  make abusing the Rift spell a bit harder.
-- Added a level dependent chance to resist the teleportation effect of
-  gravity attacks for monsters and the player. (suggested by Jonathan
-  Ellis)
-- Junk items like broken sticks, empty bottles, and rodent skeletons are
-  no longer generated in the dungeon.
-- Removed the old haggling code.  The auto-haggling code is now
-  permanently active and will give the normal price of items without the
-  10% "sales tax".
-- Replaced the old screendump code with HTML screendump code that
-  handles graphics, bigscreen, bigtile, and other display oddities much
-  better. (based on the htmldump-patch by Darkgod).
-- Added support for artifact and ego-item descriptions. (with help from
-  Hallvard B Furuseth)
-- Added artifact descriptions.  The texts are mainly taken from OAngband
-  and other variants. (Jonathan Ellis)
-- Added object descriptions assembled by Hallvard B Furuseth.  The
-  descriptions are mostly copied from obj-long.spo version 3.0.2 by Hugo
-  Kornelis, Stephen S. Lee, Leonard Dickens and Craig Lewis.
-- Added ego item descriptions for some ego types. (Hallvard B Furuseth)
-- "Easy open" ignores broken doors now when trying to close doors.
-- Added the equipment flag matrix to the character dump.
-- Added new 8x8 tiles and tile definitions provided by "Dawnmist".
-- Added the player's maximum depth in the dungeon to the character
-  display and the dump.
-- Removed several broken tile definitions for the 32x32 tiles.
-- Use the proper monster flags instead of workarounds for various
-  resists and immunities.  This also allows the reporting of these flags
-  in the monster recall and the spoilers. (pointed out by Leon Marrick)
-- You can now use either 'm' or 'p' to cast spells or pray.
-- Allow direct melee attacks on visible monsters in walls.  You still
-  have to tunnel into the wall if you are trying to attack an invisible
-  monster. (suggested by Greg Stark)
-- Show infos like "It cannot be harmed by the elements." when
-  'Inspecting' books, just as for other item types.
-- Changed the behavior of the 'auto_more' option, so that it
-  automatically skips '-more-' prompts instead of not displaying
-  messages on the top line. (Tom Houser)
-- Changed the "Do you really want to quit?" prompt to "Do you really
-  want to commit suicide?".
-- Added a 'show scores' command to the knowledge menu.
-- Changed the wording for the scores display a bit.
-- Added the kill count of non-unique monsters to the knowledge menu.
-- Added a modified version of Mogami's macro trigger patch. This patch
-  modifies how macro trigger keys are displayed on screen and written in
-  .prf files.  The trigger keys are no longer displayed in ugly key code
-  style, such like ^__FFBE\r or ^_O_FF53\r, but in more smart style,
-  such like \[F1] or \[alt-Right].
-- Added a better character selection screen with support for using the
-  cursor keys, display of info about the various race and class choices,
-  and context sensitive help.  The code is based on the EyAngband's
-  birth screen that again is probably based on ZAngband's birth screen.
-- Select the sex, race, and class choices from a dead character as
-  defaults for a new character.
-- Added a stripped down version of Takeshi Mogami's "auto_dump" feature
-  from Hengband.  Automatic pref file dumps from the game are now
-  marked, so that they can be replaced when dumping to the same
-  pref-file again.
-- Allow the banishment spell to be aborted at the "Choose a monster race
-  to banish" prompt without using up a scroll or charge.
-- Added John Rauser's monster list patch that allows the user to display
-  a list of the visible monsters in a window.
-- Improved the navigation in the help files.
-- Recharging wands or staves that have been fully *identified* before
-  will now automatically reveal the new number of charges in the device.
-  This fixes a bug where an already *ID'ed* wand or staff couldn't be
-  *ID'ed* again after recharging (but plain ID works), despite the
-  number of charges being unknown. (bug reported by Eddie Grove)
-- text_to_ascii() didn't check that the characters used in \xAB
-  sequences represent real hex characters.  Invalid hex sequences are
-  now converted to the '?' character. (reported by Kieron Dunbar)
-- Improved the handling of incomplete '\x' sequences in macros.  The old
-  code could skip the final NUL-byte of the string if it ended with
-  '\x', leading to a potential buffer overflow.
-- Fixed a typo in the description of the "wild cat". (Jay McAbee)
-- Monster groups ignored their fear when the smart_packs option was
-  turned on. (reported by Eddie Grove)
-- Rods and staves of probing are no longer automatically identified when
-  used without a monster nearby. (reported by "someog")
-- Prevent the player from being hit multiple times by area effect spells
-  and breaths that can blink the player (nexus, gravity).
-- The player can now get a level feeling when entering level 1 without
-  spending 1000 game turns in town first. (Tom Houser)
-- Branding ammo or weapons will now automatically try to combine and
-  reorder the resulting objects, even if the enchantment of to-hit and
-  to-dam fails. (reported by John D. Goulden)
-- Try to output minor warning messages (such as "illegal option choice"
-  when selecting a non existing item for a command) as soon as possible.
-  (reported by "Mogami")
-- Show all minor error messages immediately in the message window.
-- The effects of light spells are only obvious if you aren't blind.
-- Wands and rods of light don't give a message and aren't automatically
-  identified when using them while blind. (reported by Steve Kroon)
-- Refilling a latern from a stack of laterns will now only use the oil
-  from one latern, not from the whole stack. (reported by Jay McAbee)
-- Prevent earthquake/destruction spells from working in town.  This
-  prevents inappropriate messages (like "The cave ceiling collapses!").
-- Automatically try to load the "Kobold.prf" file at startup if the
-  player is a Kobold.
-- Improved the output of item and monster descriptions in spoilers and
-  character dumps.  In some cases punctuation and spaces were wrapped to
-  the next line.
-- The basic object spoilers only reported the prices for unidentified
-  items.  (reported by Hugo Kornelis)
-- Only print the "You feel (less) resistant to ..." messages when not
-  immune to the specific element. (reported by Jeff Greene)
-- The cursor keys in the X11 ports behave the same way now, no matter if
-  num-lock is on or off.
-- Change colors in main-gcu.c. This is Dominik Grzelak's patch to change
-  bright white from blue back to bright white. (Ed Cogburn)
-- Added a workaround for a bug in the curses version with USE_GETCH.
-  The news.txt screen was erased by the first call to the getch()
-  function. (Frank Palazzolo)
-- Angband consumed 100% of the cpu while waiting for a keypress in the
-  GTK port. (Sheldon Simms)
-- Allow text to be copied from the game window in the X11 port.
-  (modified version of the code in Kieron Dunbar's sCthangband 1.0.10)
-- Added transparency support to the 32x32 tiles in the Windows port.
-  This requires a modified tiles bitmap and a new transparency mask
-  originally created by Andrew Doull:
-  ftp://clockwork.dementia.org/angband/Extra/graf-32x32-304.zip
-- Removed the hackish 'Show scores' menu entry from the Windows version.
-  Use the new knowledge menu entry instead.
-- Applied lots of Mac specific patches by "pelpel".
-- Allow initialization of the game to continue, even if the
-  lib/data/*.raw files can't be written.  In that case the data parsed
-  from the lib/edit/*.txt files stays in memory and is used instead of
-  the *.raw data.  This currently wastes some memory, since the text
-  arrays are not resized to the minimum required length.
-- Added a performance tweak for the Angband Borg.
-- Increased the data-type of the shopkeeper purse limit from signed
-  16 bit to signed 32 bit.  This will allow shopkeepers with a higher
-  limit than 32768 gold to be added.
-- Added a compile time option to store the savefiles and scores in the
-  player's home directory (under ~/.angband/Angband/) on multi-user
-  machines.
-- Use a different delay function in the DOS version that works around
-  the restricted 55ms resolution on Windows 2000 and XP.
-
-Changes in Angband 3.0.3:
-- Reduced the size of the 32x32 tiles bitmap.  The smaller bitmap should
-  fix the problem on older Windows versions (Windows 95 and 98) with
-  restrictions of the maximal bitmap size .
-  The tiles are available as a separate download from:
-  ftp://clockwork.dementia.org/angband/Extra/graf-32x32-302.zip
-- Fixed a bug in the text-output routines used for character dumps that
-  sometimes introduced bogus output. (reported by Pasi Vartiainen)
-- Fixed a wrong entry in the template for the X11 startup shell script.
-  ("Mynstral")
-- Fixed the display of *slays* in character dumps. (Matthias Kurzke)
-- The "It might have hidden powers." message will now displayed in the
-  character dumps.  This makes it easier to see if an artifact or ego-item
-  with random abilities has already been *identified*.
-- Curses on unidentified items are no longer revealed in character dumps or
-  in the output of the 'Inspect' command.
-- Fixed a typo - "intellegence". (Greg Stark)
-- Updated the DOS version to compile with the latest version of the Allegro
-  library.
-
-Changes in Angband 3.0.2:
-- Limited the maximum size of floor stacks to 23, so that get_item() can
-  always display a list containing all objects.
-- Renamed 'genocide' to 'banishment' and 'mass genocide' to 'mass
-  banishment' since that name fits much better to the effect.  The priest's
-  'banishment' spell has been renamed to 'banish evil' to avoid confusion
-  and since that is what it actually does.
-- Replaced silver arrows and bolts with mithril ammo since slay evil was
-  too powerful.
-- Changed the color of seeker bolts to green since there are so many 'light
-  blue' ammo objects now.
-- 'Golden staves' had the wrong color. (John I'anson-Holton)
-- Improved indentation of the object descriptions in the character dump.
-  (Andrew Sidwell)
-- Destruction/Earthquake spells didn't properly destroy stacks of objects.
-  After saving and loading the game, parts of the stacks were restored.
-  (reported by Matthias Kurzke)
-- Zapping a stack of recharging rods would instantly recharge all but one
-  of them. (Tormod Haugen)
-- Fixed an error in the LCC Makefile.
-- Fixed an off-by-one error that prevented savefiles with the maximum
-  number of monsters or objects from loading correctly. (Takeshi Mogami)
-- Fixed an abuse that allowed the player to kill a monster with a ball
-  spell by staying out of sight and detection range of the monster while
-  the monster just patiently waited without ever getting a turn (reported
-  by Tormod Haugen).  Wounded monsters will now always get their turn, even
-  when out of range.
-- The Elfstone 'Elessar' and the Jewel 'Evenstar' have the INSTA_ART flag
-  now to make the APW-Borg happy.
-- Amulets of resistance are now fully known after identifying one for the
-  first time. (Dr. Andrew White)
-- The option for flushing of pending input when failing to cast a spell
-  didn't work.
-- Fixed several bugs in the scorefile handling that could lead to
-  duplicated entries for a single character. (reported by Hallvard Furuseth
-  and Mauro Scarpa)
-- Unified the code for object infos and artifact spoilers. (Andrew Sidwell)
-- Added event-handler code to call Lua functions when things happen     in the
-  game.
-- Allow multiple Lua event handlers per event.
-- Moved the generation of the player's fixed starting equipment (food and
-  torches) to a Lua event handler.
-- Which objects a store will buy and sell is now determined by a Lua
-  script.
-- Added various improvments to make finding errors in Lua code easier.
-- The lib/edit/*.txt files can now optionally contain the names of the
-  default object, monster, terrain, and flavor colors instead of just a
-  character specifying the Angband color code.
-- Changed the format of the flavor.txt file to make parsing easier.
-- Allow the use of the Angband version number in conditional statements of
-  the *.prf file format.
-- Added Takeshi Mogami's bigtile patch that allows tile-graphics to have
-  doubled width.
-- Added support for David Gervais' 32x32 tileset to the Windows, X11, and
-  XAW ports.  The tiles are available as a separate download from:
-  ftp://clockwork.dementia.org/angband/Extra/32x32.zip
-  (Takeshi Mogami)
-- Improved the error message when a font can't be loaded in the X11 and
-  XPJ frontends.
-- Fixed a memory leak when switching between the various tilesets in the
-  Windows version.
-
-Changes in Angband 3.0.1:
-- Added support for creating ego-item light-sources in ego_item.txt.
-- Added bigscreen support to main-gcu.c. (pelpel)
-- Check the panel-bounds more carefully to prevent problems when using
-  a huge main window (heigher or wider than the dungeon).
-- Added the missing error message for a vault that is too big.
-- Applied the bugfixes from the new Lua 4.0.1 release. (Lua devteam)
-- Added a boundary check to the macro adding code to prevent crashes
-  when defining more than the maximum number of macros. (Eytan Zweig)
-- Fixed various potential buffer overflows.
-- Updated the Makefile for the lcc-win32 compiler and added compile
-  instructions to compile.txt.
-- Added x-spell.o and use-obj.o to various Makefiles and fixed some
-  missing dependencies. (Hallvard B. Furuseth)
-- my_strnicmp() in main-ros.c was quite buggy. (Hallvard B. Furuseth)
-- The islower(), isupper(), ... and the tolower() and toupper()
-  functions take an 'int' as the argument but actually expect it to be
-  an 'unsigned char' or EOF.  We now cast the argument to 'unsigned
-  char' to prevent breakage with 8-bit character data on hosts where
-  'char' is signed.  (based on the patch by Hallvard B. Furuseth)
-- Fixed an off-by-one error when checking if playing Angband is allowed
-  at this time of day. (Hallvard B. Furuseth)
-- Fixed the activation of 'The Shield of Deflection of Gil-galad'.
-- Show the 'cursed' flag of artifacts in the spoilers. (KUSUNOSE Toru)
-- Fixed a bug that allowed changes to the 'birth_no_stacking' birth-
-  option to affect the current game. (KUSUNOSE Toru)
-
-Changes in Angband 3.0:
-- Added Jonathan Ellis' JLE patch that adds a new player race
-  ("Kobold"), many new artifacts, vaults, monsters, objects, and
-  ego-items; rebalances the gameplay; and adds a new color scheme for
-  monsters.
-- Added some new object flags ("kill demon", "kill undead"),
-  activations, monster attacks ("cause halluzination") and monster
-  spells/abilities (summon animal, throw boulder) for the JLE patch.
-- Replaced the Mage, Rogue, and Ranger spell-lists with the spell-list
-  from Greg Wooledge's GWAngband. This gives magic-users a much broader
-  range of attack-spells to choose from including chaos, nether, sound,
-  shards, and gravity effects.  Other big changes are the removal of
-  the 'Globe of Invulnerability' and the addition of 'Rune of
-  Protection'.
-- ***** WARNING *****: All spells known by magic-users are discarded
-  when importing an old savefile, so that the player can choose freely
-  from the new spell-list.  Don't forget to relearn your spells before
-  trying to use them.  Macros/keymaps with old spells probably won't
-  work anymore - change them if necessary.
-- Standing on a glyph no longer protects the player from melee
-  attacks.
-- Increased the range of infravision granted by potions of
-  infravision to +5.
-- Increased the damage of many wands and rods.
-- The player can now reset the recall depth when recalling from a
-  level above the deepest reached level.
-- Adjusted the damage caps for various breath attacks. (JLE)
-- Made the light radius cumulative.
-- Added the Lua scripting language < http://www.lua.org/ > for easier
-  customization.  Currently the scripts handle the effects of using
-  objects such as staves, wands, rods, potions, scrolls, food, and
-  activatable objects.  The player-spells are also defined in a script.
-- Added support for object descriptions that are displayed when
-  examining objects.
-- Moved the item flavors into an external file and added *.prf files
-  for the flavors.
-- Added message compression ("You tunnel into the granite wall. <5x>").
-- Added a display of the player's current equipment aka "equippy chars"
-  to the main screen.
-- Various prompts at player birth use 'Enter' instead of 'ESC' now.
-- Added a no-item-stacking-on-floor birth-option.
-- Improved the layout of the store prompts a bit.
-- Added basic support for a bigger main window (bigscreen). Note that
-  the town will be regenerated when loading an old savefile, so don't
-  leave any objects on the floor when you upgrade your savefile!
-- Added support for a hitpoint-warning sound effect.
-- You can now browse books in the stores.
-- Reorganized and cleaned up the list of options.
-- The known uniques list is now separated into two columns to make it
-  easier to read. One column for the names and one for the
-  "is dead/alive" text.
-- Allowed examining multiple items without having to return to the
-  tombstone screen.
-- Added an option to review messages to the tombstone.
-- Changed the keys to view high scores from 't' to 'v' and allowed
-  upper case for each of the options in the tombstone screen.
-- Added color to the monster recall.
-- Allowed using the roguelike keyset to navigate in the options screen.
-- Savefiles from pre-2.9.0 versions are no longer accepted.
-- Replaced the old (Acorn) RISC OS code with a newer version.
-- Added new VisualC++ 6.0 project files provided by Peter Rowe.
-- The default number of windows for the GTK port is now 1 instead of 8.
-- Fixed a crash-bug on WinXP machines when reading the filenames of
-  sounds. (Werner Baer)
-- Executables build with configure under Cygwin no longer require the
-  Cygwin DLL.
-- Added the latest Amiga code (Bablos).
-- Fixed a possible crash when searching disarmed chests for traps.
-- Monsters draining large stacks of wands or staffs could get negative
-  hitpoints due to the overflow of a signed 16 bit variable.
-- Fixed the problems with the 'repeat command' command.
-- Bounds-checking for detection spells and some wizard mode commands
-  was missing.  That could cause crashs when resizing the Terms.
-- 'Interact with visuals' could display negative char numbers.
-- Don't partially repair blasted equipment when loading the savefile.
-- Fixed a bug that caused an infinite loop in the RNG when the u32b
-  type has more than 32 bits.
-- The confirmation for wizard mode was required every time wizard mode
-  was switched on.
-- Vaults could sometimes have up to 9 times the requested number of
-  monsters.
-  Improvements by Hallvard B Furuseth:
-- Running 'angband --help' will now display basic usage info.
-- Problems with the lib/ folder were not correctly reported when using
-  the (n)curses interface.
-- Fixed a minor problem with curses on machines with signed-chars.
-- Fixed a possible integer overflow in the gamma correction code on
-  16 bit machines.
-- Various bugfixes and improvements in the SLang, XAW, VME, VCS, GCU,
-  XPJ, Acorn, and GTK frontends.
-- Several changes to the autoconf support like better handling of
-  "--with-libpath=<path>", better detection of the Athena Widget set,
-  compiling GTK versions with "--enable-gtk", and the result of the
-  usleep() detection is now actually used.
-- Fixed a compatibility problem with 64 bit machines.
-- Corrected two wrong option names in the help files.
-
-Changes in Angband 2.9.3:
-- Rogrog the Black Troll resists acid instead of cold.
-- Algroths resist poison.
-- Moved the player-class info to an external lib/edit/p_class.txt file.
-- Unified parts of the *_info.txt parsers.
-- Improved the error-messages when parsing *_info.txt files.
-- Examining an item that ignores all elements now shows "It cannot be
-  harmed by the elements." instead of one line for each element.
-- Updated the documentation for the lib/edit/*.txt file formats.
-- The randart info is now stored in the savefile.
-- Various command-line options like wizard- and fiddle-mode are now
-  available from the *.ini file of the Windows version.
-- Improved the GTK, X11, and XAW ports.
-- The cursor in the X11 and XAW modules is a rectangle, instead of a
-  filled box.
-- Made the windows of the XAW module resizable.
-- Added Steven Fuerst's X11 projected view (start with -mXPJ where
-  available).
-- Potions of life will now restore stats before healing to provide full
-  health even if CON was drained.
-- Added the Linux vcsa display driver written by Alexander Malmberg.
-- Gave the *_info.txt files more meaningful names.
-- The EASY_KNOW flag is no longer hardcoded for various item types.
-- Added a workaround for a bug in the Borland compiler for Windows.  The
-  game crashed when parsing an lib/edit/*.txt file containing 11 player
-  races.
-- Fixed a bug that could cause the random artifacts to be different
-  depending on the used compiler and optimizations.
-- Replaced several magic numbers with the proper constants.
-- The lesser vault "Planet X" was labeled as greater vault.
-- If a custom player race has both an elemental immunity and resistance
-  then only the resistance was shown in the character display grid.
-- Fixed a typo in the "bless" spell.
-- Ego-items generated in vaults should now be of the proper level.
-- Used staircases are now always marked as known when the connected_stairs
-  option is turned on.
-- Added a new macro action that stops macro execution when the game is at
-  a prompt, and is ignored otherwise.
-- One type of cross shaped rooms was never been generated.
-- The error checking when parsing artifact.txt, ego_item.txt, monster.txt,
-  and p_race.txt didn't warn about duplicated entries.
-- It's now possible to create junk items in wizard mode.
-- The easy_open option no longer counts doors under the player when
-  determining which door to close.
-- The cheat_know option marked monsters as known even after it was turned
-  off.
-- The experience gained from killing monsters was sometimes incorrect
-  after tweaking the maximum experience in wizard mode.
-- The spell-info for the mage's fire-bolt spell was used for the stone to
-  mud spell.
-- Examining an item in the home displayed the item as if it was
-  identified, even if it wasn't.
-- The Windows version didn't exit correctly when starting with a savefile
-  from the command-line.
-- Pref files for player races were not loaded automatically.
-- Fixed a compile problem in the Windows version when USE_GRAPHICS is
-  turned off.
-- The random selection of sound samples in the Windows and DOS version got
-  non-random after a while.
-- The message when dropping a known artifact is now something like "You no
-  longer have the Golden Crown of Gondor" instead of "You have no more
-  Golden Crowns of Gondor".
-- Finding out that a wand or staff has no charges left didn't update the
-  inventory window.
-- Attacks that didn't do any damage could sometimes scare wounded monsters.
-- Monsters at 1% of max hps got frightened less often than monsters with
-  10% hps left.
-- The item flag descriptions when tweaking items in wizard mode are now
-  correct.
-- Removed the special handling for weapons of Morgul and ammo of backbiting.
-- Moved the "Lesser vault" and "Greater vault" strings into the source.
-- The get_string() and askfor_aux() functions now use the 'len' argument
-  as the buffer size instead of the maximum length of the input string.
-- Corrected the message when encountering an error while parsing a
-  lib/edit/*.txt file.
-- The path_temp() function is no longer compiled if mkstemp() is
-  available.
-- Removed a hack for the curses module of some BSD versions.
-- Fixed some problems on BSD machines with the ACS macros for the special
-  curses font symbols.
-- The *_info.txt parsing routines can now be turned off with the
-  ALLOW_TEMPLATES #define.
-- The *.prf file loading code checks for invalid message colors.
-- Fixed the inversed logic for handling tabs in files.
-- Changed the title of the 'Known artifacts' list to the more truthful
-  'Known (or lost) artifacts'.
-- Changed the message when looking at un-*id*'ed artifacts/ego-items to
-  "It might have hidden powers.".
-- Changed the monster memory info when you have avenged your ancestor to a
-  gender-neutral form.
-- The error message "Couldn't allocate bitmap color" in the X11 version
-  displayed an uninitialized colour name.
-- Corrected the names of some options in the documentation.
-- Fixed some errors in the lsl module, but it's still buggy.
-- Improved the autoconf support. The Cygwin compiler is now supported,
-  detection routines for the X11, XAW, and GCU modules have been improved,
-  DESTDIR is now supported, and a workaround for a bug in some versions of
-  the GCC compiler is turned on.
-- Cleaned up the source code and some of the Makefiles.
-
-Changes in Angband 2.9.2:
-- Fixed several security problems (buffer overflows, tempfile-races,
-  reading files that the player has no permission to read, and incorrect or
-  missing bounds-checking).
-- Splitted the lib/user/ folder into lib/pref/ for the default "pref files"
-  that are distributed with the game, and lib/user/ (or ~/.angband/Angband/
-  on multi-user systems) for files created by the user.
-- Added extra status information (stunned, asleep, ...) when looking at
-  monsters.
-- Added context sensitive help to the options screen (press '?' to get info
-  about an option).
-- Made the "hitpoint warning" message orange by default, so that it's
-  easier to spot.
-- Updated the helpfiles a bit.
-- The names of the generated vaults are now displayed when the cheat_room
-  option is turned on.
-- Added support for poison branded ego weapons (but no poison branded
-  weapons exist yet).
-- The helpfile display now supports links to specific sections of a
-  helpfile.
-- The helpfile display, knowlegde screen, and message history can now
-  use screens bigger than the default 80x24.
-- The dungeon coordinates are now displayed when targetting in wizard mode.
-- Improved error-checking for savefile loading and *_info.txt parsing.
-- Intrinsic immunities of the player are now displayed in the character
-  sheet.
-- The "known uniques" list displays the number of killed uniques.
-- Fixed a bug that messed up the description of the "genocide" artifact
-  activation.
-- The activation of Avavir works correctly now.
-- The Bubbles vault no longer has inaccessible areas.
-- Changed the description for experience drain attacks of monsters.
-- The random character generation restricts the class to the "legal"
-  choices for the player's race.
-- The "word of recall" artifact activation didn't check the ironman option.
-- Exiting Angband explicitly frees all allocated memory now.
-- Artifacts are now inscribed {indestructible} when the player tries to
-  destroy them and pseudo-id can improve this to {special} or {terrible}
-  later.
-- Killing Morgoth will now create a down staircase.
-- Increased the variable size for the weight carried by the player to
-  prevent problems with carrying huge amounts of stuff.
-- The debug mode command to change the number of items does now properly
-  adjust the weight carried by the player.
-- The game is now saved before printing the tombstone, not after.  That
-  makes cheating by killing the process a little bit harder.
-- The input is now flushed before verifying casting prayers or spells
-  without enough mana to prevent accidential "overcasting".
-- Fixed a bug that prevented redefining the keymaps of the number keys from
-  working correctly if the keymap contained another number.
-- Fixed a bug that allowed the player to see the flavor of an item in a
-  store when examining it.
-- Fixed a bug that sometimes didn't update the maximum player level
-  correctly.
-- Made the 'Crown' vault a "Greater vault".
-- Marked the 'randomize artifacts' options as "beta".
-- Corrected the displayed duration for "essence of speed" and "globe of
-  invulnerability".
-- Fixed a bug that could cause the initial offer required when haggling
-  to be wrong.
-- Fixed a rare bug that could cause the game to lockup when resting in town
-  for a long time.
-- Fixed the formatting of the object spoilers.
-- Completely changed the window resizing behaviour in the Windows version.
-- Added support to use Angband+APWBorg as a screensaver in Windows.
-- Added support for the new version of the Cygwin compiler for Windows.
-- Menu entries in the Windows version are now disabled in situations where
-  they don't make sense.
-- Fixed a bug in the DOS version that caused midi-file playing to stop
-  after the first song.
-- Updated the Amiga files.
-- Fixed a compile problem in the Mac version.
-- The loading of bitmap files in the X11 version is no longer dependent on
-  the byte-order of the machine.
-- Improved the speed of the gamma-correction code in the X11 version.
-- Added autoconf support (beta) for Unix/Linux.
-- Added a compile time option to prevent users from changing the path to
-  the Angband files.
-- Added very basic support for GTK+.
-- Exiting the curses version properly cleans up the term now.
-- The X11/XAW version starts with only one window by default.
-
-Changes in Angband 2.9.1v2:
--Fixed a bug that allowed the player to gain info about unidentified
- items.
--Changed the default color definition of "light red" so that it doesn't
- look so similiar to "red".
--The gamma-correction code in the Windows version now works correctly.
-
-Changes in Angband 2.9.1:
--Added color coded messages and more sound events.
--Allowed the modification of the various *_info.txt limits without
- recompiling.
--The lib/data/*_info.raw files will be automatically rebuild when the
- lib/edit/*_info.txt files are changed.
--The monster spoilers and the list of known uniques sort the monsters now.
--Made player races, player history, shop owners, and race-dependent price
- adjustments customizable (Prfnoff).
--Moved the monster recall information out of the monster race array making
- room for a lot more monsters (Prfnoff).
--Random item abilities of *identified* items are now displayed in
- character dumps (Prfnoff).
--Identify and *identify* spells only affect unidentified items now.
--Added a "create artifact" wizard command.
--Added optional, case-insensitive searches (can be toggled with the '!'
- key).
--Added an "examine/look at item" command to the stores.
--The "examine item" command now shows all known properties of an item,
- even if it is not *identified*.
--Made artifact activations configurable in a_info.txt (Arcum Dagsson).
--The last 15 messages are now added to the character dump (Prfnoff).
--Reduced the number of option settings printed in character dumps.
--Empty slots in the players inventory or home are no longer printed
- in character dumps.
--Added a character death menu (Prfnoff and Ed Cogburn).
--Added the ego-item generation patch (Matthias Kurzke).
--The date in the high-scores is now saved with four digit years.
--The "brand bolts" activation of "Cubragol" now allows the user to select
- which bolts to brand.
--Added 21 new vaults (Chris Weisinger).
--The Resistance spell sets the duration for all temporary resistances to
- the same value now.
--Fixed a bug that generated wrong item indices for the home in char-dumps.
--The temple will now buy identified blessed blades.
--Fixed a bug that allowed monsters to sometimes get double moves, even
- if the player is faster.
--Object and message recall are now correctly refreshed.
--Fixed the wizard mode flag display.
--The alter command ('+' and easy_open option) no longer tries to bash down
- doors.
--Fixed a bug that caused the effect of aggravate monsters scrolls to skip
- one monster.
--Fixed a bug in the easy-floor option that sometimes displayed wrong
- labels.
--Prices for identified armor with hit, damage, or armor penalities were
- wrong.
--Fixed a bug that allowed the player to recall into rubble.
--Screen-dumps are now correctly loaded.
--Fixed a bug in the random artifact generation that sometimes caused random
- artifacts to change.
--Fixed a bug that erased pseudo-id in shops even if the item was not sold.
--Fixed a wrong message when the player gets killed by poisonous food.
--Random artifact diggers are now in the spoilers.
--Fixed a bug that messed up objects on the floor when modifying them in
- debug mode.
--The score-penalities are now correctly reset when starting a new
- character.
--Moved some sound-events so that they are played before the associated
- message is printed.
--Opening doors is now properly repeated when the easy_alter option is on.
--Modified the monster AI for fleeing monsters a bit.
--Fixed a bug that could cause crashes with very long object descriptions.
--One highscore entry was sometimes not displayed when the current character
- was part of the highscore list.
--Dumping the options appends to the file now instead of overwriting it.
--Modified the spell-tiles assignments for the 8x8 graphics.
--The 16x16 tile for the Monadic Deva is now correctly displayed.
--The 8x8 tiles for hobbit players are no longer displayed as human
- warriors.
--Fixed some bugs in the lighting code for 16x16 tiles.
--Saving a character dump prints now a success (or failure) message.
--Trying to destroy an already identified artifact no longer adds the
- {special} inscription.
--Small modification to the docs.
--Added documentation for the *_info.txt file format.
--Class and race specific *.prf files are now loaded automatically.
--Added Ben's code-cleanups and his rewrite of the "panel" and "overhead
- map" code.
--Added a workaround for a bug in the optimizer of the GCC compiler.
--Removed several compiler warnings.
--Replaced the makefile.emx with the correct version.
--Added a makefile for cygwin.
--Fixed some problems when compiling Angband without the MONSTER_FLOW and/or
- MONSTER_AI options.
--Removed a bug that caused a wrong error message to be displayed when the
- mask.bmp file in the Windows version was missing.
--Added the IBM pseudo-graphics font.
--Updated the pref files for Acorn and Mac.
--Added Mark Howson's main-ami.c and Musus Umbra's main-acn.c with several
- other Acorn support files.
--Added newer main-mac.c and graf-mac.prf files that support 16x16 tiles
- with transparency.
--Closing the main-window of the Win32 version while it's minimized now
- works correctly.
--The Windows version now supports multiple samples per sound event.
--Added a graphical map to the Windows version.
--Added the newest X11 modules by Ben Harrison and Steven Fuerst.
--The Windows version now lists the current character in the score display.
--Turned on the compile time option that allows players to put an
- .angband.prf file in their home directory.
--Added gamma correction to the Windows version.
-
-Changes in Angband 2.9.0:
-- Chaos resistance no longer automatically grants confusion resistance.
-  All normal items and standard artifacts with chaos resistance now
-  provide confusion resistance as well.
-- Two-handed swords appear earlier now.
-- Added an optional point-based character generator.
-- Added randomized character generation.
-- Moved the questions about the autoroller, maximize, and preserve mode
-  to a new option screen.
-- Added an option to display piles of items with a special symbol
-- Allowed secret doors to be looked or stuck
-- Items with an '=g' inscription will be automatically picked up
-- Added options to automatically select the direction when opening
-  doors/chests and disarming traps.
-- Added an option to display piles of items on the floor as lists.
-- Arrows break less often now.
-- Refilling a latern from another latern leaves an empty latern now.
-  Empty laterns are no longer displayed as choice for refilling.
-- Added random artifacts.  Note that importing characters created with
-  older versions of the random artifacts generator is not supported.
-- Scrolling while targetting.
-- Improved monster AI.
-- Increased the maximum number of vaults to 64.
-- Very high or low speed modifiers no longer cause problems.
-- Entry into debug, wizard, or borg mode is only confirmed once per
-  character, not once per session.
-- The debug command 'e' now allows current and maximum experience to be
-  altered.
-- Boldor, Gabriel, Khamul, Murazor, Tselukas, Draebor, Hoarmurath,
-  Thuringwethil, Omarax, Qlzqqlzuup, and Feagwath can now summon similar
-  monsters.
-- Master quylthulg, Emperor Quylthulg, Qlzqqlzuup, Murazor, Pazuzu,
-  Lungorthin, Gothmog, Sauron, and Morgoth can now summon greater demons.
-- Ancalagon the Black can now breath fire.
-- Objects carried by monsters are now loaded properly.
-- A command to repeat the last command has been added ('n' in original,
-  ''' in roguelike keyset).
-- At character creation, some extra difficulty options are
-  available (no artifacts, no stores, no up stairs/recall).
-- The "special" inscriptions ("cursed", "worthless", "good", ...) are
-  now handled outside the normal inscription system, and so neither
-  overwrite, nor are overwritten by, normal inscriptions.
-- Made destroyed levels rarer.
-- The quest monsters (Sauron and Morgoth) are now always generated on
-  levels 99 and 100.
-- Fixed a bug in the "know complete monster info" cheat option.
-- The spell-list now uses color.
-- The disarm traps spell will now work on the locks of doors, revealing
-  secret doors and unlocking locked doors.
-- The 'detect doors' spell can now detect locked and jammed doors.
-- Monsters crushed by an earthquake spell are now killed.
-- Fixed a bug that could cause problems when entering illegal values
-  while haggling with a shopkeeper.
-- Support for Adam Bolt's tiles.
-- Support for transparency and lighting effects.
-- Added class and race dependent player graphics.
-- Cleaned up the new code introduced in the 2.8.5 beta version.
-- Fixed the bug with opening a door you are standing on with the easy_open
-  patch.
-- Random artifacts with chaos resist can now get confusion resist too.
-- Fixed a bug that added a discount to a cursed item when wielding it.
-- The fear resistance of level 30+ warriors is now correctly displayed.
-
-Compilation changes:
-- Added a compile.txt file with compile guides for various systems and
-  compilers.
-- Added a makefile for the free Borland C++ 5.5 compiler.
-- Removed lots of compiler warnings.
-- Fixed a problem when compiling Angband on newer (glibc-based) Linux
-  systems.
-- Added a compile-time option to allow players to put an .angband.prf
-  file in their home directory and have it read on systems where
-  Angband is running set-[ug]id.  Default is off.
-- Added support for compiling a Linux SVGALIB version with graphics.
-- Added support for the use of the 8x8 and 16x16 tiles in the X11
-  version.
-
-Windows specific changes:
-- You can select between the "old" tiles, the new tiles, and ASCII mode.
-- The Windows version no longer requires changes to angband.ini when
-  installing.  The angband.ini file will be created when you first start
-  the program, so it doesn't need to be present in the binary archive.
-  That also allows easy updates to newer versions, since the settings
-  in the angband.ini are not overwritten when installing a new version
-  over an old one.
-- The windows can be resized and the (graphical) tiles will adjust
-  automatically to the new size.
-- Added the "Show scores" command to the menu.
-- Fixed a bug that created all files as "read-only" (causing the game to
-  fail when saving the game).
-- Fixed a bug that caused all numbers to be registered twice by the game,
-  leading to "double-steps".
-- Fixed a bug that didn't free the used bitmaps correctly when closing
-  the game.
-
-DOS-specific changes:
-- Graphics, sounds, and music options
-  You can switch the graphics/music/sound options from the user menu
-  (press ! to get there).  The volume of the sound and the music can be
-  adjusted from 0 (min) to 255 (max).  All changes to the screen-resolution
-  and the selection between the old and the new graphical tiles will be
-  active after you restart Angband.
-- Terminal windows
-  The windows can be activated from the "Angband options screen"
-  (press the '=' key to get there) in the "Window flags" menu.