wilson@ji.Berkeley.EDU (James E. Wilson) (06/02/88)
Announcing a beta release of umoria 4.87 (or UNIX Moria), use at your own risk.
I am interested in getting comments on the new version from playtesters.
Please report problems to wilson@ji.Berkeley.EDU (ucbvax!ucbji!wilson).
The game is available via anonymous ftp from ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU in the
directory pub/wilson. Just get the files moria487.tar.Z.*
I can make diffs available from 4.85 if anyone wants them.
However, note that diffs are 800K uncompressed (almost as large as the source),
so you won't save time downloading them instead. And you will probably
have difficulty applying them if you have made local modifications to umoria,
because of the number of changes.
Don't ask me to mail it to you, because I won't.
Yes, it will eventually be sent to comp.sources.games, after it has been
playtested for a while.
This is the second official release of umoria.
There have been a couple hundred bug fixes and minor enhancements.
Major notables:
all core dumping problems should be fixed (I've said this before though...)
character rerolling is implemented
program is much faster: makes fewer refresh() calls
was profiled and optimized
zillions of register declarations added
create food does not destroy object under you
the run '.' command stops when the screen scrolls
can repeatedly hit ^P to display last twenty messages
store inventories turn over more often, store inventories change after a
save/restore of character
several cheating tricks involving signals no longer work
scores from panic saved games are not added to the scoreboard
but can be played normally otherwise
etc...
Still buggy:
stats are still truncated at 18/100, wearing/wielding an object that would
raise a stat over 18/100 results in a permanent loss in that stat
when object taken off
look, throw only in 8 cardinal directions
etc...
See the PROBLEMS file for all the gory info.
Save files from 4.85 can be read by 4.87 without problems (this compatibility
is why some bugs were not fixed, namely the stat problem above).
No work on MS-DOS portability has been done in the last six months.
This will be a top priority for the next version.
And, of course, fixing the many bugs that STILL remain.
Jim Wilson
wilson@ji.Berkeley.EDU
ucbvax!ucbji!wilson
Jim Wilson "If winning is not important, then why keep score?"
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ucbvax!ucbji!wilsoncosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) (06/02/88)
Anybody know if anyone is working on a version of Moria for the Amiga? __ / ) Bernie Cosell /--< _ __ __ o _ BBN Labs, Cambridge, MA 02238 /___/_(<_/ (_/) )_(_(<_ cosell@bbn.com