Trip down the memory lane

[academic.sam]

I remember doing some coding for Angband a long time ago and was trying to find what exactly I did. Lo and behold, Google (bless its heart) still had those old posts fro, r.g.r.a. It was quite fun to see stuff from the distant past (Jagath is my real name). I remember when Robert (? I think) added Lua, I was not too happy and decided to hack it out.

This summer, I'll definitely try to code a few UI ideas I have to see if they pan out.

Robert Ruehlmann wrote:
> Both alternatives mean extra work and I'm lazy. So unless somebody else
> wants to do it I'll take the way of least resistance and won't bother with
> a non-Lua version.

OK. I'll bite. For starters, I've uploaded a new x-spell.c file on to
Incoming at clockwork.

It is Based on x-spell.c from the CVS as of Mar. 21st. I've Copied the
spell list from GWAngband source and made it work without 'USE_SCRIPT'.
Tested only very briefly on a Win32 machine with VC++. I've tried to
imitate the structure in spell.lua script as closely as I can.

I also found that the executable size is 608k without Lua and 748k with
Lua for Win32. Over the weekend I'll try it on a Linux (x86) machine and
see if it passes. Since the size difference seems to be noticeable, I'll
try to maintain it as time permits (day job, life and all that).