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Super-Rogue: fix some out-of-range constants.
Constants K_ARROW etc., for causes of death other than monsters, are in
the 240-255 range. They were often passed to functions taking char,
which is usually signed, making the values out of range.
The function declarations have been changed to unsigned char, which is
also the type used by the scoreboard code.
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1 Welcome to XRogue |
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2 http://roguelike.sourceforge.net/xrogue |
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5 Copyright (C) 1991 Robert Pietkivitch |
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6 All rights reserved. |
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8 Based on "Advanced Rogue" |
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9 Copyright (C) 1984, 1985 Michael Morgan, Ken Dalka and AT&T |
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10 All rights reserved. |
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12 Based on "Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom" |
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13 Copyright (C) 1980, 1981 Michael Toy, Ken Arnold and Glenn Wichman |
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22 Introduction: |
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24 Rogue was introduced at the University of California at Berkeley as a |
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27 Scrolls, potions, rings, wands, staves, armor, and weapons helped the |
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28 player to battle these monsters and to gain gold, the basis for scoring. |
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30 The version of rogue described in this guide has been expanded to include |
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33 traps and decide when it is better to fight or to run. There are also a |
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36 The game contains monsters, spells, weapons, armor, potions, and other |
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