TFork 0.2

[Therem Harth]

Yeah, I decided not to kill it after all.

0.2 is rewritten from unmodified 2.3.8-ah. It makes a bunch of changes; the most important of those though is permadeath being made optional, about which there's a fairly long rant in the changelog. Suffice to say I got sick of the choice between permanent character death and no death at all.

It's available here: http://users.norwoodlight.com/danlev/tfork-0.2.tar.bz2

Edit: Grr argh permadeath isn't being disabled properly. I'll have a fix up shortly.

[Therem Harth]

Wow, this is really quite amazing... Even after I tell ToME to call quit(NULL) on anything that looks remotely like an interrupt/terminate/kill signal, it still autosaves the game when the window is closed. Congrats darkgod, you've made the game pretty much proof against scumming.

Now if only it were also proof against common Angband vexations...

[d_m]

I don't know anything about the ToME codebase, but it's worth noting that quit() isn't a normal C library function. In V, this function is built to run all the "clean up" stuff as well as hooks including saving the game.

You will probably need to read the implementation of quit() in order to get this working, or use something like exit() which should actually end the program immediately.

[Therem Harth]

D'oh! Thank you, I did not think of that.

[Therem Harth]

OMG that didn't work. It still saves the game even on exit(0). What is going on?

Edit: And FWIW quit(NULL) basically just invokes exit(0).

[AnonymousHero]

I'm guessing that it registers an exit handler with atexit().

[d_m]

So I went ahead and looked at the source because I was curious. Seems like it won't be that hard to change this, although I feel conflicted about helping you bypass permadeath.

I imagine you could do something like "bool bypass_save_player =FALSE" and then modify the save_player() function in loadsave.c with "if(bypass_save_player) return;"

[Therem Harth]

Thanks.

FWIW I also intend to remove scores. If too many people are opposed to a non-permadeath variant though, I can take it down.

Edit: on further review I've taken it down. If people here don't want a non-permadeath variant, I won't upload one.