25 October 2022
- Lots of internal changes
- Fix crash bug when viewing ones inventory
- Add debug-feature to view one's inventory with both I and Alt-I, which have different code implementations. Will remove one after all code has been migrated.
13 February 2022
- Only internal changes
12 February 2022
- Massive code changes to items. Added, removed and modified a lot of items. Also removed "colors". E.g. potions are now only "potions", not "red potion". This is not final, and there will be a lot of changes going forward.
9 October 2021
- Remove the functionality where you can give monsters custom names. Seemed like an unncessary hack.
- Better error handling for monster.dat. Now you will get an error message if you break it.
4 July 2021
Remove numpad keys for movement. Will maybe reuse those buttons of other things in the future
Pressing . waits one turn
27 June 2021
Make mana gain per level same as magic stat modifier. If needed I will rescale mana cost for spells instead (and gain from potions) since this makes it easier to understand
Change so all magic types only use one stat each, giving the following:
- Arcane -> Intelligence
- Divine -> Wisdom
- Nature -> Wisdom
- Song -> Charisma
- Chakra -> Wisdom
25 June 2021
If you shoot in a direction and miss the first monster, your missile may now hit the second monster standing behind it.
No changes, but since I'm almost a year into this I should start using version numbers
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Some slight changes to starting items. You now start with more stuff to avoid unplayable starts where you cannot buy anything useful.
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Removed all maps from the game. The whole point about this game is that moria is unmappable, so it's weird that you can map out floors at all.
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Add barbarian Alternative to fighter, who can rage in fights. Cannot use heavy armor. May be more buggy than other classes at first
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Changed stats No longer goes from 3 -> 17 -> 18/00 -> 18/99. Now instead goes from 0 and up, where 18/00 is 18 and 18/99 is around 24-25. Now stuff is generally calculated the 3e dnd way, where modifiers = (stat - 10) / 2. Before it was totally up in the air, where the cut-off-points usually were in between skill levels. After this change, most modifiers from stats are somewhere between half as good and twice as good as before, depending on skills, levels and stats.
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Removed titles Some were cool, but mostly it was annoying having to come up with titles for new classes, also a lot of them were immersion-breaking.
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Your race no longer has any effect on your health points Now comes fully from your class
- Add restrictions on what druids can wear (Can be seen through Alt-C)
- Weapons: Club, Dagger, Quarterstaff, Sling
- Armor, Shields, Misc: Only stuff without large amounts of metal in it
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Moved druid magic from 'p' to 'm'
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Changes to how 'P' is displayed
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Fix crash on displaying skeletons
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Lots of code cleanup, A.K.A introducing bugs
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WIP - Begun work on a new way of displaying item names. Will make names more easy to understand without resorting to the manual.
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Some things are no longer stackable (Torches, valuable jewelry, amulets) This feels more natural and balanced to me, and I would like resource management to be a bigger part of the game, which this is a step towards.
Add some colors to parts of the game
- Health and mana will move between 3 colors depending on high/medium/low
Removed gaining experience from using spells for the first time.
Added a menu when starting the game, where you can select which character to play. Making it easier to switch between characters.
Removed insurance. Seems like a weird functionality to me. For posterity, this was the help-page for insurance:
The Insurance Shop is where you buy insurance for your items
and character, so that if the system should crash, or if your
terminal quits on you, you can cash in your insurance and get the
character back. Note the insurance will only work when you save
the character after buying it.
Changed how scores are calculated. Now deepest level * 1000 + experience. But will tweak this more later.
Removed manually setting difficulty to 1-5. No longer needed since I will only use one difficulty always. This should also make it possible to balance.
Aug 20, 2003
Fixed printing of water in the P command and fixed a buffer overflow if you change OUTPAGE_WIDTH cover the full map.
Proved that I still maintain the code if someone emails me a problem. Thanks Robin! :)
May 28, 2002
Additional patches from John Guthrie (from Oct 2001, work got busy):
Correct the Reputation and Swimming values in the character printouts. Fix the learn_* functions to not segfault when picking new spells. Fix more problems with enchant armor. Spell dispel correctly.
Also, NetBSD patches from Ben Wong:
io.c This patch is necessary since on NetBSD, using setgid is final; if you give up privileges you can't get them back. Setegid is the way to go since it only changes your effective gid. I believe this change should work fine under Linux as well. [ kertes: I tested this breifly, and had no trouble. ]
term.c This patch fixes a few problems in term.c. Primarily, it makes it #include <sgtty.h> instead of <termios.h>. It also has some of the #ifdef code cleaned up a bit since I couldn't figure out the multiply nested conditional macros. Finally, it fixes a non-portable way of using curses: I believe using stdscr->_cury is deprecated. I replaced it with getcury(stdscr), which hopefully will work everywhere.
unix.c This patch is necessary since on NetBSD, the symbol "unix" is no longer automatically defined by the compiler. However, NetBSD is. Again, this should work fine under Linux. (If the #includes cause a problem, they can be removed; they are only to prevent warnings from gcc).
Also includes his patches for the Makefile and configure.h in the NetBSD directory.
Added some code to bother to check the length of the DATA_FILE_PATH rather than just trusting people to notice that segfaults are caused by long paths. And I upped the max path length to 170 chars from 60 to accommodate NetBSD packages installed without root access. I hope that is plenty, it was certainly lazy. But at least it checks for overflows now!
June 6, 2001
Patches from John Guthrie to fix various things:
Fix help message about what flags exist. Fix Enchant Armor scrolls so they actually enchant armor. Fix a bunch of item prices in the stores that depended on how identified the item is. Fix mhelp.pl to be smarter about figuring out how many lines are on the screen. Fix gain_mana() so it does the right thing on even level ups.
Oct 26 2000
Applied some patches from cloister. Here are his notes:
i found three bugs related to timekeeping when spending time in the inn plus a couple of other little bugs.
- careful observation of the dates in the game reveals that spending time in the inn, no matter how many days you pay for (1, 3, 7), always gets you only 1 calendar day, due to a bug in misc.c's add_days() function. you did, however, get the correct number of loops through store_maint, the correct adjustments to player flags, etc. it's just py.misc.cur_age that wasn't updated correctly. fixed add_days.
- having fixed add_days, there was a bug in spend_time() when you buy 3 days in the inn. check out the add_days() call that was there. i have no idea what the original programmer could have been thinking...
- having fixed #2, the p1 value on the "3 days in the inn" item in values.h was also wrong. it was set to '30', not 3. my only guess is that originally someone wanted to have an option for spending a month in the inn (which, now that i think about it, would also explain bug number 2, if the person was trying to emulate--albeit poorly--months of slightly differing length).
- the druid Ring of Fire spell didn't work analagously to the mage version or the version you get when you use the "broken set of teeth from a dragon" item. fixed.
- the price when selling rings of protection and rings of increase-to-hit was based on the rings' +todam value. looks like a cut-and-paste error, probably from when those rings were invented originally...
Oct 15 2000
correctly set random seed in casino so that it does not always play exactly the same games after loading a saved character.
A bunch of little things I did back in March that I have forgotten about.
Feb 17 2000
cloister wrote item_guide.txt, a guide to the treasure_type struct.
replaced a bunch of constant tvals with horn, chime, instrument, etc.
fixed spelling in check for Amethyst, now they cost more.
items inside chests will be created at a level near where the chest was found rather than at the level the chest is opened.
moved all the potion2 and scroll2 effects into flag2.
added valuable_gems to things that can be recharged.
wizard_create will let you create anything now (including traps!).
Jan 31 2000
Fixed blessed blades so they set the correct flags.
Fix weapon useage penalties for priests and rangers. Now priests have some and rangers do not.
Fixed number of blows per attack code, integer math can cause terrible rounding errors. Monks will be helped a lot by this.
Fixed genocide, it usually went into an infinite loop.
Jan 7 2000
Fixed bug in starlight/light_line that would crash the game if the light killed a creature before all of the power was used up.
Many thanks to Marc Lehmann for his patch to fix the attr_get call with newer curses. If things are still broken let me know.
Don't just detrap chests when disarming them, unlock them too.
Dec 22 1999
Added a break; between Storm Giant and Cloud Giant Belts. Ooops. Fixed % full description for empty bags of holding. Do not strcat to a string that has not been set yet! Added '*' option for resting: rest until mana and hits are at maximum. Chimes of disarming no longer cause chests to be empty. When blindness ends show area around character. Wand of wall building no longer pins creatures that do not move in water. They are in a wall, not water! Changed most of the floor_type checks to not use literals. If a monster was in the dark, hit by something and cast teleport on itself then the old position (shown when the monster was hit) was not redrawn. I never noticed that at UW, but this week it happened at least 3 times. Odd.
Dec 18 1999
Fixed a huge problem where items that were removed by putting on something else of the same type did not undo some of the magic bonuses. Fixed a few item sets that caused crashes if DO_DEBUG was on. Fixed an off by one problem with the material types of magic items. Fixed some of the monster death messages.
Dec 13 1999
Fixed another bug in compact_monsters that was fixed in the 4.94 sources. No loops in the list, but it still locked the game up for quite a while. Show % full on bags of holding. Interrupt rest when hunger messages are printed. This nearly killed me. Sort magic/prayer/song books so you they are always in the same order. Let petrification wear off over time, partly taken from the 4.94 sources. Fixed message printed by area spells that killed things (monster names were sometimes lost)
Dec 5 1999
After a one year break I finally started playing again. Reannounced on Freshmeat.
Fixed a big problem in compact_monsters that would create loops in the monster list (m_list). This locks up the program fairly fast. Also added USE_CURSES_ATTRS to configure.h to make it easy for the people who have had problems with attr_get(). Some minor graphics fixes including one caused by using the J command (parts of the map were not redrawn correctly).
Oct 14 1998
Now all the data files are checked before ncurses is given control of the screen. This should help all the people who have reported that the game exits with no errors right after starting. I also added a message if the help file could not be executed so the screen does not just flash.
Oct 12 1998
Finished writing the put/take commands for bags of holding, and fixed two bugs that showed up now that bags can be used. Also finished the 'I' command (selective inventory) which had also been skipped. Staves of darkness no longer mess up the screen when used. Enter can be used to reply to "-more-" ^M is still broken, getch returns 10 (^J) and I don't know why. Use 'V'.
Oct 05 1998
Made mhelp.pl output \n\r rather than just \n, should fix messed up output when using help from within the game. Replaced index call with strchr Fixed bug in bi__insure_all_items that made the game look like it had hung.
Sep 29 1998
Should fix a problem in monk.c where a for loop should have begun at 0. Added break; to paladin, druid and priest spells so only one is cast at a time. I don't think I play them very often!
- Sep 27 1998
- Fixes a crash in the speeded up identify selection code.
- Call endwin to clean up ncurses on exit.
- july and aug
- I must have changed something between pl 4 and 5, but I have no idea what.
- sep 16 1998
- announced package to freshmeat.net
- july 21 1998
- fixed learn_spell and learn_prayer offering spell from outside correct range.
- july 24 1998
- use Mersenne Twister random number library
- july 25 1998
- cut about 30k from save files using run length encoding on the dungeon floor
- always xor save file data against random numbers
- july 20 1998
- added reduced map and better Locate from umoria
- fixed store hours and bribes so correct index is used
- july 18 1998
- hmmm, done with the post. is that everything?
- july 13 1998
- moved everything up and left by one, icky macros do the job but I did not want to edit every single prt/print/..., fixed right edge
- get_char bails if any lines are bad.
- bolts and balls are visable now!
- july 12 1998
- added encrypt and decrypt switches (-E and -D) for save files help is done
- running out of stuff before the post has to be done :)
- july 11 1998
- insurance is done
- july 10 1998
- I don't seem to be keeping this log up to date at all :) All but about 8 files are "done".
- No crashes in a while, except when loading damaged save files. encrypts save files, high scores work working on wizard commands (wizard passwords work now so you don't have to use gdb to set it)
- Master file is in place, uses gdbm.
- Insurance, Help and Trading Post are the only major things left
- (want to have a black market so single system users can benifit)
- june, mid 1998
- Jeanetta started some alpha testing. wow, lots of bugs.
- Actually working on the code again (had to fix J's crashes)
- march 1 1998
- you can actually play the game now
Bank.inc done with all but deposit of items (it was disabled)
Bit_Pos.mar done
Bit_Pos64.for done
Bj.inc done
Blow.inc done
Build.com
Casino.pas done
Changer.inc (code never used, bank does it...)
Constants.inc done
Create.pas done (except "get_ssn")
Creature.pas done
Death.pas done
Desc.pas done
Distance.mar
Dungeon.pas done should get rid of globals...
Eat.inc done
Files.pas done
Generate.pas nearly done, need to implement old_seed stuff
Get_Account.mar
Help.pas done
Horse.inc done (needs testing, but seems to work)
Imoria.cld
Imoria_Setup.com
Insert.mar done
Insurance.inc done
Inven.pas done
Io.pas done (trap vms messages not implemented, duh)
Magic.inc done
Maxmin.mar done
Minmax.mar done
Misc.pas already_playing
Monk.inc done
Monsters.dat
Moria.pas done should probably delete //ed code
Moriadef.cld
Moriahlp.rnh <done, wrote perl script to display help>
Netopen.pas stuff for post, not needed
Play.inc done
Player.pas done
Potions.inc done
Prayer.inc done
Putqio.mar
Quest.pas done, added item rewards
Randint.mar
Randrep.mar
Routines.inc
Save.pas done should check for errors when writing
Screen.pas done
Scrolls.inc done
Sing.inc done
Slots.inc done
Spells.inc done
Staffs.inc done
Store.pas done want to import shakesphere insulter
Subquad.mar
Termdef.pas probably not needed since I stole umoria code
Trade.inc done
Types.inc done
Users.mar
Uw_Id.for probably not needed
Values.inc done
Variables.inc done
Wands.inc done
Wizard.pas done
( source can be found at wbcms.cc.buffalo.edu in maslib/games/imoria )
Started on nov 16, 1997. Got the source, un-sharded it!
nov 17, actually started converting stuff.
nov 22, finished with most of the types/vars/values, time to recode!
dec 7, you can create a character and get initial inventory and spells!