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| author | John "Elwin" Edwards |
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| date | Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:56:04 -0500 |
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| 2 # history.txt | |
| 3 # | |
| 4 # UltraRogue: The Ultimate Adventure in the Dungeons of Doom | |
| 5 # Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1992, 1993, 1995 Herb Chong | |
| 6 # All rights reserved. | |
| 7 # | |
| 8 # See the file LICENSE.TXT for full copyright and licensing information. | |
| 9 # | |
| 10 | |
| 11 2.01 - Dec 17/84 | |
| 12 1) MAXTRAPS set to 20, up from 15. the dungeon gets nastier | |
| 13 2) hitpoints gained per level change/loss increased by 50%. | |
| 14 this will be essential when new monsters added and amulet | |
| 15 level is increased to 50 or so. | |
| 16 | |
| 17 2.01 - Dec 21/84 | |
| 18 1) MAXPDEF set to 4 (maximum number of saved characters). | |
| 19 | |
| 20 2.01 - Dec 23/84 | |
| 21 1) all load control and time code now non-optional. controlled | |
| 22 by external variables initialized in tunable.c. load average | |
| 23 is now read by a separate program and obtained via popen(3). | |
| 24 2) 2 new armors added, mithril and crystalline. | |
| 25 3) when wearing crystalline armor, a wielded weapon can be turned | |
| 26 into a wand of lightning by bolts of lightning from monsters | |
| 27 (75% chance) | |
| 28 4) blessed (enchanted) food lasts 3 times as long as regular food | |
| 29 up to 6000 turns (regular food is 2000 max) | |
| 30 5) tidied up messages so they all have periods on the end, etc. | |
| 31 6) not being able to play because of holiday() code is distinguished | |
| 32 by a separate message | |
| 33 7) when wearing crystalline armor, monsters that normally hug won't | |
| 34 | |
| 35 2.01 - Dec 24/84 | |
| 36 1) fixed handling of being hit by lightning shot by yourself | |
| 37 2) fixed inventory message for sticks with one charge | |
| 38 3) a highly charged (>50) stick or weapon of lightning can do extra damage | |
| 39 | |
| 40 2.01 - Dec 25/84 | |
| 41 1) mithril armor decreases by 25% the chance of being hit by magic | |
| 42 or wands (VS_MAGIC and VS_WAND -5) except by silver arrows | |
| 43 2) all forms of teleportation cause confusion unless you are currently | |
| 44 affected by a clear thought potion. wizard teleportation via ^X | |
| 45 is exempt | |
| 46 3) falling through a maze or normal trapdoor can cause damage and you can | |
| 47 die from it. also, you are confused unless currently affected by a | |
| 48 clear thought potion | |
| 49 4) when askme is set, more prompting for names is made for scrolls and | |
| 50 potions | |
| 51 | |
| 52 2.01 - Dec 26/84 | |
| 53 1) fixed bug for when wizard or after reading scroll of creation, making | |
| 54 an object of which there is only a single type does not redisplay the | |
| 55 level | |
| 56 2) ring of teleportation can also cause confusion. oversight in changes | |
| 57 made in other code | |
| 58 3) 19 new weapons added. list of weapons used to start with has not | |
| 59 changed | |
| 60 4) calculation of worth of multiply occuring objects changed to include | |
| 61 multiplying by the count of the number of objects | |
| 62 5) silver arrows are aimed by magic and so miss only if monster saves | |
| 63 against magic and the arrow otherwise would have missed anyway | |
| 64 6) fixed bug if entering wizard's password from the command line and is | |
| 65 typed in wrong, then a game restore is attempted | |
| 66 7) changed format of asking for object creation to allow more objects | |
| 67 to be chosen | |
| 68 8) format of name being saved in the score file is changed to indicate | |
| 69 level number and level name of the person | |
| 70 | |
| 71 2.01 - Dec 27/84 | |
| 72 1) added 17 new monsters. the scorefile name of the monster that killed | |
| 73 you is incompatible in indexing, but that's life. | |
| 74 | |
| 75 2.01 - Dec 30/84 | |
| 76 1) wererats can now summon giant rats, up to 4 of them | |
| 77 2) ogres are now greedy | |
| 78 | |
| 79 2.01 - Jan 2/85 | |
| 80 1) elves that carry bows have a 10% chance of carrying silver arrows | |
| 81 2) slightly higher probabilities of traps being successfully set | |
| 82 3) format of top ten adventurers output changed to two lines for | |
| 83 neatness since more stuff added | |
| 84 | |
| 85 2.01 - Jan 3/85 | |
| 86 1) a cursed scroll of create monster now creates 3 to 6 monsters | |
| 87 around you. a normal one and a blessed one create just one | |
| 88 | |
| 89 2.01 - Jan 6/85 | |
| 90 1) amulet moved up to level 50 for safety :-) | |
| 91 2) added new weapons, including a claymore and a footbow | |
| 92 3) some of new weapons now available during initial selection | |
| 93 | |
| 94 2.01 - Jan 7/84 | |
| 95 1) more weapons added | |
| 96 2) code to handle creation of objects completely rewritten to no longer | |
| 97 have a limit on the number of items | |
| 98 3) fixed bug in wizard monster creation routine to allow ESC to terminate | |
| 99 without selection | |
| 100 | |
| 101 2.01 - Jan 11/85 | |
| 102 1) fixed code in chase.c so that a monster can actually use a footbow | |
| 103 if it's carrying one | |
| 104 2) fixed bug in chase.c that wrong pointer is used to point to a | |
| 105 monster's silver arrow. it turns out that the code executes as | |
| 106 expected but the comments are then wrong | |
| 107 | |
| 108 2.01 - Jan 13/85 | |
| 109 1) added fire traps as another type of trap. needed for burning oil | |
| 110 2) changed name of molotov cocktails to burning oil. when thrown and | |
| 111 misses monster, it makes a fire trap and also lights up the room | |
| 112 3) 6 new rings added - carrying - pack loses 1/3 of its weight | |
| 113 - adornment - worth 1000 gp, but nothing else | |
| 114 - levitation - avoids traps and things like that | |
| 115 - fire resistance, lightning resistance, and | |
| 116 cold resistance - obvious | |
| 117 4) certain monsters will die instantly when hit by burning oil | |
| 118 | |
| 119 2.01 - Jan 14/85 | |
| 120 1) full damage is always done with burning oils except on fireproof | |
| 121 monsters | |
| 122 2) monsters that divide will not do so when hit by burning oil | |
| 123 3) fixed bugs in messages for firetraps | |
| 124 | |
| 125 0.00 Alpha - Jan 15/85 | |
| 126 1) flameproof monsters aren't burnt by burning oil | |
| 127 2) version and name of game changed to UltraRogue. hopefully, | |
| 128 it will live up to it's name | |
| 129 3) format of scoring output changed to remove redundant information | |
| 130 4) crysknife can poison now. if the monster doesn't save against | |
| 131 poison, it loses half its hit points | |
| 132 5) flameproof monsters ignore firetraps and can run through them | |
| 133 6) many special properties of weapons changed from hardcoded names | |
| 134 to flags | |
| 135 7) boomerangs and other weapons that return do so now | |
| 136 8) maximum attempts to set traps per level changed from 8 to 16 | |
| 137 9) maximum transactions at a trading post changed from 4 to 8 | |
| 138 | |
| 139 0.00 Alpha - Jan 16/85 | |
| 140 1) corrected code for handling of silver and poisoned weapons | |
| 141 | |
| 142 1.00 Alpha - Feb 1/85 | |
| 143 1) it's now possible to roll crystalline armor at start | |
| 144 2) enchanting armor causes it to weigh 20% less for each + and 20% more | |
| 145 for each - | |
| 146 | |
| 147 1.00 Alpha - Feb 4/85 | |
| 148 1) quitting uses experience point score instead of gold | |
| 149 2) corrected handling of weight of enchanted armor | |
| 150 3) discovering a firetrap lights the room | |
| 151 4) it's now possible to die from fire traps | |
| 152 | |
| 153 1.00 Alpha - Feb 5/85 | |
| 154 1) changed weight of enchanted objects in wrong place. now fixed | |
| 155 2) minor fix to messages in trader.c | |
| 156 3) changed the effect of a scroll of acquirement. a blessed scroll | |
| 157 now works as in old version, a normal or cursed scroll will | |
| 158 allow acquirement of an object of random type. | |
| 159 4) split rogue.c into rogue.c and monsdata.c | |
| 160 | |
| 161 1.00 Alpha - Feb 10/85 | |
| 162 1) armor doesn't rust if you're not wearing any | |
| 163 2) added 8 artifacts, now trying to make rogue compile again | |
| 164 3) time window for restored games changed to 60s instead of 25s. | |
| 165 | |
| 166 1.00 Alpha - Feb 13/85 | |
| 167 1) misc. tidying up of messages. some changed to be wizard only | |
| 168 messages | |
| 169 2) one unique monster added, have not yet tested nastiness of beast | |
| 170 3) changed chasing code to hopefully remove bug that stops running | |
| 171 in a room even though monster is invisible or can surprise | |
| 172 4) seeing distance is now a variable so that later enhancements can | |
| 173 be made | |
| 174 5) added apply command ('A') to make an artifact work (does nothing | |
| 175 right now) | |
| 176 6) it is now possible to trip and fall down the stairs, and die | |
| 177 in the process | |
| 178 7) blessed objects weigh 20% less and cursed weigh 20% more | |
| 179 8) fighting (but not to death) allowed until 1/3 of max hit points | |
| 180 9) time of stiffening by basilisks, etc., is now randomized | |
| 181 10) tidied up code to handle signals and autosaving | |
| 182 11) poison pool traps implemented | |
| 183 12) quaffing a potion of haste self when already hasted lasts a | |
| 184 longer time than before | |
| 185 13) if strength is high enough, the hero can break free of | |
| 186 a hold | |
| 187 14) creation of artifacts now supported (sort of) | |
| 188 15) scoring routines changed to track gold and experience separately. | |
| 189 now i have to figure out how to set the gold to zero without | |
| 190 resetting the score file | |
| 191 16) gold is counted (including worth of objects) even for quitting and | |
| 192 dying. however, position in scorefile is determined by experience | |
| 193 points only | |
| 194 17) three new scrolls 1) nothing - does nothing | |
| 195 2) silver plating - magic aimed weapons seldom miss | |
| 196 3) ownership - make weapons return | |
| 197 18) 6 types of food now - details still to be fixed up | |
| 198 19) corrected handling of normal and cursed scrolls of acquirement | |
| 199 | |
| 200 1.00 Alpha Feb 14/85 | |
| 201 1) creation of artifacts mostly working now. no code to support | |
| 202 their special functions yet | |
| 203 2) corrected names of artifacts and food so the inventory routine | |
| 204 gives correct case and plural forms of names | |
| 205 3) handling of duration of enchanted food fixed | |
| 206 | |
| 207 1.00 Alpha Feb 15/85 | |
| 208 1) creation, picking up, dropping, and throwing artifacts now apparently | |
| 209 correct. no functions yet implemented yet | |
| 210 2) mad wizard changed to mad sorceress and is no longer confused. | |
| 211 level, intelligence, experience points and damage increased | |
| 212 3) nymphs try to steal the most valuable magic item carried now | |
| 213 4) picking up an artifact gives experience equal to 0.1 of it's | |
| 214 worth in gold | |
| 215 5) new wizard command 'V' added to find the worth of an object | |
| 216 | |
| 217 1.00 Alpha Feb 16/85 | |
| 218 1) monsters that steal magic and gold no longer vanish when they've | |
| 219 stolen an item. instead, it turns invisible and tries to run away. | |
| 220 a nymph isn't so bad, but watch out for the mad sorceress. | |
| 221 the monster will carry around the item until killed | |
| 222 2) picking up things with a full pack in a trading post no longer | |
| 223 identifies it | |
| 224 3) falling into a poison trap does not automatically poison current | |
| 225 weapon and there is a 75% probability of losing 1/3 hit points | |
| 226 and 2 strength | |
| 227 4) buying anything in a trading post tells you what it is and all others | |
| 228 of the same type | |
| 229 5) quaffing a potion of healing at or near max hit points increases | |
| 230 maximum by more | |
| 231 6) a wand of nothing does nothing | |
| 232 7) cursed scroll of ownership causes thrown weapon to always disappear | |
| 233 | |
| 234 1.00 Alpha Feb 17/85 | |
| 235 1) corrected handling of wizard scorefile manipulation commands | |
| 236 2) corrected code to create objects via the scroll of acquirement | |
| 237 3) a cursed scroll of acquirement creates a cursed object | |
| 238 4) wearing a ring of levitation allows you to move over any kind of | |
| 239 trap without being harmed | |
| 240 5) poisoned weapons now identified as such in inventory name | |
| 241 | |
| 242 1.00 Alpha Feb 25/85 | |
| 243 1) corrected handling of scoring of gold for total winners | |
| 244 2) changed mad sorceress to be non-unique to make dungeon really nasty | |
| 245 3) added code to calculate cost of silver, poisoned, and owned weapons | |
| 246 4) code to stop running when a monster appears corrected for when | |
| 247 monster can surprise or is invisible | |
| 248 | |
| 249 1.00 Alpha Mar 1/85 | |
| 250 1) cursed potion of see invisible does nothing when wearing ring | |
| 251 of see invisible. | |
| 252 2) putting on a ring of see invisible while blind cures blindness | |
| 253 | |
| 254 1.01 Alpha Mar 4/85 | |
| 255 1) changed encryption scheme used by read/write routines to code | |
| 256 supplied by Michael Mauldin (mlm@cmu-cs-cad.arpa) | |
| 257 2) eating too much causes paralysis for a short time | |
| 258 3) changed rnd (random integer in a certain range) routine to use | |
| 259 a better algorithm | |
| 260 4) changed version string for internal checking to something more | |
| 261 useful | |
| 262 | |
| 263 1.01 Alpha Mar 8/85 | |
| 264 1) changed inv_name to show silver weapons properly | |
| 265 2) changed name of "silver weapon" scroll to "magic hitting" | |
| 266 3) scrolls of ownership and magic hitting now prompt for weapon to | |
| 267 apply scroll to | |
| 268 4) rnd changed back to old algorithm because new one is SLOW | |
| 269 | |
| 270 1.01 Alpha Mar 20/85 | |
| 271 1) picking up an artifact more than once does not add more experience | |
| 272 points | |
| 273 2) new unique and VERY NASTY monster added, Lucifer. only appears | |
| 274 on level one when you have an artifact on you. he is NOT | |
| 275 pleasant. i am certain that he will prevent total winners until | |
| 276 i can tune his parameters. | |
| 277 | |
| 278 1.01 Alpha Mar 22/85 | |
| 279 1) changed maximum objects per normal level from 9 to 5 | |
| 280 2) changed monster window to half it's current value to stretch | |
| 281 out the levels new monsters can appear over | |
| 282 3) increased traps per level again from 20 to 25 | |
| 283 | |
| 284 1.01 Alpha Mar 28/85 | |
| 285 1) decreased abilities of Lucifer to try things out | |
| 286 2) changed probability of food up and other stuff down | |
| 287 3) changed probability of potion of gain level down | |
| 288 | |
| 289 1.01 Alpha Apr 1/85 | |
| 290 1) changed traps per level up to 30 | |
| 291 2) fixed bug in wearing ring of cold resistance | |
| 292 3) changed window for saving to 180s because save/restore with | |
| 293 new algorithm is much slower | |
| 294 4) added support for lairs of unique monsters, 1 in 15 chance of | |
| 295 being summoned while going up the stairs | |
| 296 5) trading posts can't appear until level 15, up from level 5 | |
| 297 6) you can't be blinded when wearing a ring of extra sight | |
| 298 7) hit points per level gained/lost reduced to original values | |
| 299 8) deleted some wizard commands and re-arranged some of the rest | |
| 300 9) changed how wizard teleportation specifies type of level | |
| 301 10) modified parameters of sucessfully striking a monster | |
| 302 11) Lucifer devalued again | |
| 303 | |
| 304 1.02 Alpha Apr 2/85 | |
| 305 1) reduced probability of being summoned at random while running around | |
| 306 2) restored probability of hitting parameter | |
| 307 3) doubled requirements for experience level changes | |
| 308 | |
| 309 1.02 Alpha Apr 4/85 | |
| 310 1) restored requirements for experience level changes | |
| 311 2) increased probability that a monster hits on an attack | |
| 312 3) changed probability of food downwards and other stuff upwards | |
| 313 4) changed probability of some scroll's cursed and blessed probabilities | |
| 314 | |
| 315 1.02 Alpha Apr 5/85 | |
| 316 1) throne room monsters no longer hasted | |
| 317 2) fixed messages for scrolls of magic hitting and ownership | |
| 318 3) infinite loops in wanderer() due to trying to place a monster | |
| 319 in a different room than the hero on a THRONE level | |
| 320 4) changed format of scorefile to include what artifacts were | |
| 321 retrieved | |
| 322 5) initial attributes of a fighter increased | |
| 323 6) Lucifer downgraded again (sigh) | |
| 324 | |
| 325 1.02 Alpha Apr 12/85 | |
| 326 1) food probability adjusted upwards | |
| 327 2) size of string to hold fruit food name increased | |
| 328 3) monsters per treasure room increased to 20 from 15 | |
| 329 4) maximum number of magic objects per level increased from 5 to 7 | |
| 330 5) added code to differentiate a winner carrying all artifacts | |
| 331 and some | |
| 332 6) reduced probability of summoning | |
| 333 | |
| 334 1.02 Alpha Apr 16/85 | |
| 335 1) monsters that can walk through stone are not affected by wand of | |
| 336 antimatter. so much for an easy kill of Lucifer | |
| 337 2) throne rooms always contain treasure, up to 3 times as much as normal | |
| 338 | |
| 339 1.02 Alpha Apr 23/85 | |
| 340 1) max monsters/treasures in a party room upped again from 20 to 30 | |
| 341 | |
| 342 1.02 Alpha Apr 26/85 | |
| 343 1) improved wizard outfitting command to start with more and better stuff |