Unangband 0.6.4-pre2 released

[andrewdoull]

This is the second preview release of Unangband 0.6.4

You can download the source code from http://prdownload.berlios.de/unangba...4-pre2-src.zip. You can download a precompiled Windows build from http://prdownload.berlios.de/unangba...4-pre2-win.zip or a precompiled Linux build from http://prdownload.berlios.de/unangba...-linux.tar.bz2 (Thanks to Mike). I'll be updating the OS/X build in a couple of days - the code on it has diverged from the Windows box I've been playing on and I need to figure out how to reconcile the two.

### Game Play ###

- Allow cancellation of restricted teleports for free if you don't meet the criteria.

- Dust of Sneezing now Dust of Sneezing & Choking; with a poison effect as well.

- Discount Sting and Darkness so they only cost 1 mana.

- Make druid starting spells more interesting.

- Add a second wooden monster and made warp wood effective against them both.

- Prevent player allies killing themselves in regions.

- Prevent the player throwing or firing away cursed equipment.

- Add birth_gollum option which starts you deep in the dungeon, but with the snivelling, wretched ability to make any offer sound good to a hostile monster who would listen to you.

- Make cheat_lore and cheat_auto birth options.


### User Interface ###

- Add view_fogged_grids option. Switching this off, but leaving view_unsafe_grids on now duplicates the Angband detect trap behaviour. Adjust the invisible grid graphic as required if you want to match the appearance exactly.

- Display information about which stats determine spells learned, failure percentages and mana in birth screen.

- For safety, you now have to use @ to target yourself.


### Bug Fixes ###

- Fix detect mind not using a turn or mana.

- Fix to allow cancellation of some effects which were able to be held as songs.

- Fix for get_quantity not returning a value.

- Fix problem with targeting multi-blow spells when they weren't targetting a monster.

- Fix monster body descriptions.

- Fix problems with limited range beam spells skipping first grid.

- Fix starting homes for 2 races.

- Fix array access error when selecting a vault (Thanks to Tynan Fitzpatrick for finding this).

[SaThaRiel]

Hello Andrew,

maybe you should check the clock on your system

make: Warning: File `birth.c' has modification time 3.2e+04 s in the future

Also the source path is still unangband-063-src but i think that this is "wanted".

Just played some steps and it seems to work fine. Also created a char and had no problem. Looking forward to the release

Edit: Looks like more files (as expected) have a modification time in the future. Im doing a touch before building the package as a workaround.

[thorgot]

- Add birth_gollum option which starts you deep in the dungeon, but with the snivelling, wretched ability to make any offer sound good to a hostile monster who would listen to you.

This sounds intriguing.

[Arralen]

Windows Ports
	 
    0.6.4-pre2	2010-01-13 01:00
    No Files

This might have something to do with BerliOS open source project portal falls victim to attack (h-online 13 January 2010, 18:49) - maybe they had to revert to a backup version of their website.

Or Andrew simply screwed things up again

[andrewdoull]

Windows Ports
     
    0.6.4-pre2    2010-01-13 01:00
    No Files

This might have something to do with BerliOS open source project portal falls victim to attack (h-online 13 January 2010, 18:49) - maybe they had to revert to a backup version of their website.

Hmm... its fixed. I'm guessing I screwed up in this instance...

Andrew

[andrewdoull]

Hello Andrew,

maybe you should check the clock on your system

make: Warning: File `birth.c' has modification time 3.2e+04 s in the future

Also the source path is still unangband-063-src but i think that this is "wanted".

Just played some steps and it seems to work fine. Also created a char and had no problem. Looking forward to the release

Edit: Looks like more files (as expected) have a modification time in the future. Im doing a touch before building the package as a workaround.

Time and date are fine. I'm blaming a year 2010 bug in this instance...

Andrew

[andrewdoull]

This sounds intriguing.

It's a totally untested version of thrall / astral / ghost mode... you'll spend a lot of time 'O'ffering 1 gp to monsters capable of killing you instantly.

Andrew

[SaThaRiel]

Andrew - are you interested in compiler warnings? Im using

gcc version 4.4.2 20091208 (prerelease) (GCC)

Asuming those are easy to fix for you:

cmd4.c:81: warning: ‘default_join_cmp’ defined but not used

generate.c:7534: warning: ‘build_simple_building’ defined but not used
generate.c: In function ‘removeallbutlargest’:
generate.c:2604: warning: array subscript is above array bounds

And the "usual"

util.o: In function `my_fopen_temp':
util.c:(.text+0x53aa): warning: the use of `tmpnam' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp'

Last is common to most *bands.

UnAngband runs fine as far as i tried it (just some 1000 steps).
Thanks for this great variant. Takes some time to get used to it but offers some interesting gameplay elements IMO.

[andrewdoull]

Andrew - are you interested in compiler warnings? Im using

gcc version 4.4.2 20091208 (prerelease) (GCC)

Feedback is always welcome.

Asuming those are easy to fix for you:

cmd4.c:81: warning: ‘default_join_cmp’ defined but not used

Should tidy that up... just been lazy since I didn't write that code.[/code]

generate.c:7534: warning: ‘build_simple_building’ defined but not used

And that's the consequence of merging two SVN commits by using #if 0 I'll worry about that when I finish writing the code in question.

[code]
generate.c: In function ‘removeallbutlargest’:
generate.c:2604: warning: array subscript is above array bounds

That's a bug - fixed.

And the "usual"

util.o: In function `my_fopen_temp':
util.c:(.text+0x53aa): warning: the use of `tmpnam' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp'

Last is common to most *bands.

UnAngband runs fine as far as i tried it (just some 1000 steps).
Thanks for this great variant. Takes some time to get used to it but offers some interesting gameplay elements IMO.

Much appreciated.

[Bandobras]

A bug on the Un webpage (spoilers section; file permissions?) for file http://unangband.berlios.de/dungeon.png.

Object not found!

The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the error.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 404
unangband.berlios.de
Sun Jan 17 01:23:54 2010
Apache

P.S. The picture looks auto-generated, but not much worse than a hand-made attempt linked here at some point. Could the kind author share the source with us too?

[andrewdoull]

A bug on the Un webpage (spoilers section; file permissions?) for file http://unangband.berlios.de/dungeon.png.

It's awaiting me fixing the cron job running on the Berlios server to copy this over from the SVN commit. Berlios' SVN server SSH signature isn't being recognised which is why the cron job is failing.

However that is pending being able to get onto shell.berlios.de which appears restricted at the moment because of the recent hacking attempt.

I've pointed it to the SVN repository instead as a workaround, but that forces you to download it, instead of displaying in a web page.

That's why none of the spoilers have been updated for a while...

Andrew