Version Changes ======= ======= Produced by Laurence Brothers (brothers@paul.rutgers.edu) 0.57(alpha) First public release 0.58(alpha) bugfixes, I forget what else 0.59(alpha) bugfixes, better tactical combat mode ^c trapping 0.60(alpha) bugfixes, filechecking, cuserid changed to getlogin, brothel on city level, more foods. this file started. new time mechanism, new module otime. 12/5/87. 0.70(alpha) architecture changed -- therefore most code rewritten. Only large-scale changes detailed here, otherwise too many to count. Countryside; multiple dungeons; "special levels"; special screens for houses, the arena, and countryside encounters; single combat mode with different verbosity levels; no more filechecking for saved games; many new monsters; a few new items; new end game; new inventory modes, effects of many commands are different, some new commands added, other old ones removed. Commands and terrain characters have different meanings in countryside. 3/22/88. 0.70.5(alpha) First 0.70 version released via ftp. Many bugs. Among other things, wouldn't work at all on a vax. 3/22/88. 0.71 (beta) Rather different version of 0.70 now about to be released to usenet via comp.sources.games. 7/11/88. 0.75 Somewhat bugfixed version of 0.71, with MS-DOS cpp code and makefile courtesy Nathan Glasser. 5/4/89. Produced by Robert Rendell (rendell@cs.monash.edu.au) 0.78 Rather more bugfixed version from 0.75. Put in support for uid swapping so omega may run suid. Removed the high scores from the player save file (weird...) Put in file locking on the high score file so file isn't corrupted by simultanious updates. Fixed many sundry bugs. 3 Sept 93. 0.78.1 Fixed a number of bugs reported by various people. 3 Oct 93. 0.79 Fixed a number of bugs, largely cosmetic, but also some serious ones, like the Justiciar restoring hostile to the player if the game was restored with the player in the country. Also closed possible avenue of gross cheating - someone in wizard mode could reset any game status bit, including the wizard bit, thus re-enableing their score... 11 Feb 94. 0.80 Major changes, including merging the DJGPP and mainstream versions. Also saved games - I changed levels so only the seed and the changes made to the level are saved - the space saving achieved means that saving the entire dungeon is now feasable. Many other bugs fixed 16 June 94. 0.80.1 Patch 1, fixing a few careless bugs in 0.80 - help files were changed in name and not all references to the old name updated, files were created that didn't adhere to MSDOS's stupid 8.3 filename limit. Also fixed setoptions so it didn't crash when called from the character creation routines. 28 June 94. 0.80.2 Patch 2: more bugfixes, mostly involving bugs with multiple items - there were several cases where conform_lost_object/s was called on an item that was then given to a monster or put in a safe, causing strange effects like piles of 0 size.