Experimental webserver

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Yes, timestamps should include the date in the format clouded had shown for bookkeeping sakes (what was said and when -- very helpful for us all, imo)

Is there really a chat history being stored, or is it just wiped from crash to crash, or day to day? Time stamp is sufficient for my use, which is just to see when the last few chats occurred - did I just miss them, or was it long before I started that play session. Are those folks even still online, etc.

[HugoVirtuoso]

Another suggestion - implement a feature to allow players to select 'alive' character (of severa/many) to play. Apparently, the webserver allows only ONE alive character to be playable at any time.

Also, the webserver should have a way of (auto)saving the chat - for quick reference. Reason why it should be saved is because I've been seeing a lot of live discussion on game screen drawing bugs and other behind the scenes stuff.

[Gwarl]

One savefile per user per game was a design decision taken early on. Great pains were taken to conform Sil to this model.

As Ingwe says, there are no chat logs. Even the number of messages within the runtime variable containing the limited chat history when you log on is capped.

But fear not, the conversational about the graphical glitches was me explaining to someone else what I think may be causing them, and ultimately it'll be me who fixes it.

Unfortunately I won't be able to give this bug the time it needs until next weekend at the earliest.

To anyone reading who finds this bug particularly annoying:
As a stopgap solution, you can map movement keys to move+refresh.
i.e. n maps to ;n but you can map it to ;n^R where n is a digit excluding 0 and 5. This will give you screen flicker instead of graphical glitches.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

To anyone reading who finds this bug particularly annoying:
As a stopgap solution, you can map movement keys to move+refresh.
i.e. n maps to ;n but you can map it to ;n^R where n is a digit excluding 0 and 5. This will give you screen flicker instead of graphical glitches.

Although, this solution hasn't worked for me, sadly.

[Gwarl]

Inspiration struck and I'm confident it's been fixed now, with no need for a workaround.

[HugoVirtuoso]

Bug: I get an occasional blank, black screen instead of the title screen when loading PosChengband. Pressing any key lets me proceed as usual.

[HugoVirtuoso]

Apparently, on Angband.live, in PosChengband and probably all variants, found artifacts / monsters / game options / etc. descend through generations.

There should be an option to start new characters (be it PosChengband or any variant) from a brand new clean slate -- absolutely no carry over from dead characters? Is this possible, Gwarl? In case you're wondering, I would have preferred making new characters from brand new clean slates. That's my style when I play PosChengband on my PC.

[Gwarl]

https://github.com/OwenGHB/angband-webclient/issues/5

I'm not familiar with the kind of low-level stuff angband is doing with savefiles, and I don't really have the time to take that learning curve on lately. But the server would have to be able to know whether a character is dead before wiping the savefile on a new game.

I can do this with FAAngband and Vanilla thanks to the good work that's been done on those variants but PCB is way more oldschool and I'm lost there.

[HugoVirtuoso]

https://github.com/OwenGHB/angband-webclient/issues/5

I'm not familiar with the kind of low-level stuff angband is doing with savefiles, and I don't really have the time to take that learning curve on lately. But the server would have to be able to know whether a character is dead before wiping the savefile on a new game.

I can do this with FAAngband and Vanilla thanks to the good work that's been done on those variants but PCB is way more oldschool and I'm lost there.

Maybe write something on this on the PCB 7.0.0 main thread so that Chris will notice there.

[HugoVirtuoso]

Gwarl - If you're reading this, can you save a copy of my current PCB 7.0 save (i.e. the one that crashing the same during the Thieves quest) and email it to me at YggdrasilTid@gmail.com. I want to upload it onto the PCB 7.0.0 thread so that Chris can check out the game-crashing bug.

[HugoVirtuoso]

Suggestion for the webserver's ToME: Can you please add the Theme module for it? Of note, ToME is one of those variants that can run modules, namely ToME 2.x variants and Theme is a major one. Theme is a ToME variant module with more Tolkenized aspects and more towns. Also, please add the Furyband variant to the webserver, a more zany standalone-variant of ToME. The point of having both is because they have ToME mechanics, one with more Tolkien names (i.e. Theme) and the other with zany features (i.e. Furyband) that include references to Hengband and Star Wars for instance. Then again, these have ToME mechanics.

[AnonymousHero]

Suggestion for the webserver's ToME: Can you please add the Theme module for it? Of note, ToME is one of those variants that can run modules, namely ToME 2.x variants and Theme is a major one. Theme is a ToME variant module with more Tolkenized aspects and more towns. Also, please add the Furyband variant to the webserver, a more zany standalone-variant of ToME. The point of having both is because they have ToME mechanics, one with more Tolkien names (i.e. Theme) and the other with zany features (i.e. Furyband) that include references to Hengband and Star Wars for instance. Then again, these have ToME mechanics.

Just a note for those following along at home:

Beware that the "original" ToME doesn't actually work properly on 64-bit. I've gone on and on about it, so I won't expand on that here. So if the thing is running on a 64-bit (virtual) machine/container, you'll want to use my fork (or an early version of it). Also, at one point I incorporated Theme into ToME directly, so if you get any remotely recent version of my fork, you'll also get Theme along with it.

(Also -- and this is firmly IMO -- Furyband ended up just being stupid and pointless. For example, there were duplicate monsters that the maintainer refused to remove, there was a monster that granted something like 20 or 50 million XP, propelling you from level 40 to 55 (or whatever) instantly. There were also body armors that reduced all damage by 50%. Just because.)

[HugoVirtuoso]

Just a note for those following along at home:

Beware that the "original" ToME doesn't actually work properly on 64-bit. I've gone on and on about it, so I won't expand on that here. So if the thing is running on a 64-bit (virtual) machine/container, you'll want to use my fork (or an early version of it). Also, at one point I incorporated Theme into ToME directly, so if you get any remotely recent version of my fork, you'll also get Theme along with it.

What is the most recent version of your fork? ah-2.3.10 or ah-2.3.11? I lost track. Where can we download it?

[AnonymousHero]

What is the most recent version of your fork? ah-2.3.10 or ah-2.3.11? I lost track. Where can we download it?

2.3.11-ah, I think. I try to also always keep "master" (or HEAD) playable, but don't always succeed. (Bug reports welcome!)

I should really get my BEEP together and do a proper release. Sooo many small code improvements... and bugs :/ . There's a weird Automatizer display bug which is currently preventing me from releasing a new version. I'll see if I can get that fixed and do a new release shortly. Regardless, 2.3.11-ah should be good, AFAIK.

Download: https://github.com/tome2/tome2/tree/v2.3.11-ah (click the "Clone or Download" button and choose "Download".)

[HugoVirtuoso]

2.3.11-ah, I think.

I should really get my BEEP together and do a proper release. Sooo many small code improvements... and bugs :/ . There's a weird Automatizer display bug which is currently preventing me from releasing a new version. I'll see if I can get that fixed and do a new release shortly. Regardless, 2.3.11-ah should be good, AFAIK.

Download: https://github.com/tome2/tome2/tree/v2.3.11-ah (click the "Clone or Download" button and choose "Download".)

I use Windows 10 Home 64-bit. What compiler do you recommend for this? I ask because there's an apparent bug causing GCC5/6 compiler to fail based on what I read. Or anyone know where we can find an already compiled WINDOWS version of ToME 2.3.11-ah? Thanks!