new.things

2.01 - Dec 17/84
1)	MAXTRAPS set to 20, up from 15.  the dungeon gets nastier
2)	hitpoints gained per level change/loss increased by 50%.
	this will be essential when new monsters added and amulet
	level is increased to 50 or so.

2.01 - Dec 21/84
1)	MAXPDEF set to 4 (maximum number of saved characters).

2.01 - Dec 23/84
1)	all load control and time code now non-optional.  controlled
	by external variables initialized in tunable.c.  load average
	is now read by a separate program and obtained via popen(3).
2)	2 new armors added, mithril and crystalline.
3)	when wearing crystalline armor, a wielded weapon can be turned 
	into a wand of lightning by bolts of lightning from monsters
	(75% chance)
4)	blessed (enchanted) food lasts 3 times as long as regular food
	up to 6000 turns (regular food is 2000 max)
5)	tidied up messages so they all have periods on the end, etc.
6)	not being able to play because of holiday() code is distinguished
	by a separate message
7)	when wearing crystalline armor, monsters that normally hug won't

2.01 - Dec 24/84
1)	fixed handling of being hit by lightning shot by yourself
2)	fixed inventory message for sticks with one charge
3)	a highly charged (>50) stick or weapon of lightning can do extra damage

2.01 - Dec 25/84
1)	mithril armor decreases by 25% the chance of being hit by magic
	or wands (VS_MAGIC and VS_WAND -5) except by silver arrows
2)	all forms of teleportation cause confusion unless you are currently
	affected by a clear thought potion.  wizard teleportation via ^X
	is exempt
3)	falling through a maze or normal trapdoor can cause damage and you can
	die from it.  also, you are confused unless currently affected by a
	clear thought potion
4)	when askme is set, more prompting for names is made for scrolls and
	potions

2.01 - Dec 26/84
1)	fixed bug for when wizard or after reading scroll of creation, making
	an object of which there is only a single type does not redisplay the
	level
2)	ring of teleportation can also cause confusion.  oversight in changes
	made in other code
3)	19 new weapons added.  list of weapons used to start with has not
	changed
4)	calculation of worth of multiply occuring objects changed to include
	multiplying by the count of the number of objects
5)	silver arrows are aimed by magic and so miss only if monster saves
	against magic and the arrow otherwise would have missed anyway
6)	fixed bug if entering wizard's password from the command line and is
	typed in wrong, then a game restore is attempted
7)	changed format of asking for object creation to allow more objects
	to be chosen
8)	format of name being saved in the score file is changed to indicate
	level number and level name of the person

2.01 - Dec 27/84
1)	added 17 new monsters.  the scorefile name of the monster that killed
	you is incompatible in indexing, but that's life.

2.01 - Dec 30/84
1)	wererats can now summon giant rats, up to 4 of them
2)	ogres are now greedy

2.01 - Jan 2/85
1)	elves that carry bows have a 10% chance of carrying silver arrows
2)	slightly higher probabilities of traps being successfully set
3)	format of top ten adventurers output changed to two lines for
	neatness since more stuff added

2.01 - Jan 3/85
1)	a cursed scroll of create monster now creates 3 to 6 monsters
	around you.  a normal one and a blessed one create just one

2.01 - Jan 6/85
1)	amulet moved up to level 50 for safety  :-)
2)	added new weapons, including a claymore and a footbow
3)	some of new weapons now available during initial selection

2.01 - Jan 7/84
1)	more weapons added
2)	code to handle creation of objects completely rewritten to no longer
	have a limit on the number of items 
3)	fixed bug in wizard monster creation routine to allow ESC to terminate
	without selection

2.01 - Jan 11/85
1)	fixed code in chase.c so that a monster can actually use a footbow
	if it's carrying one
2)	fixed bug in chase.c that wrong pointer is used to point to a
	monster's silver arrow.  it turns out that the code executes as
	expected but the comments are then wrong

2.01 - Jan 13/85
1)	added fire traps as another type of trap.  needed for burning oil
2)	changed name of molotov cocktails to burning oil.  when thrown and
	misses monster, it makes a fire trap and also lights up the room
3)	6 new rings added - carrying - pack loses 1/3 of its weight
			  - adornment - worth 1000 gp, but nothing else
			  - levitation - avoids traps and things like that
			  - fire resistance, lightning resistance, and
			    cold resistance - obvious
4)	certain monsters will die instantly when hit by burning oil

2.01 - Jan 14/85
1)	full damage is always done with burning oils except on fireproof
	monsters
2)	monsters that divide will not do so when hit by burning oil
3)	fixed bugs in messages for firetraps

0.00 Alpha - Jan 15/85
1)	flameproof monsters aren't burnt by burning oil
2)	version and name of game changed to UltraRogue.  hopefully,
	it will live up to it's name
3)	format of scoring output changed to remove redundant information
4)	crysknife can poison now.  if the monster doesn't save against
	poison, it loses half its hit points
5)	flameproof monsters ignore firetraps and can run through them
6)	many special properties of weapons changed from hardcoded names
	to flags
7)	boomerangs and other weapons that return do so now
8)	maximum attempts to set traps per level changed from 8 to 16
9)	maximum transactions at a trading post changed from 4 to 8

0.00 Alpha - Jan 16/85
1)	corrected code for handling of silver and poisoned weapons

1.00 Alpha - Feb 1/85
1)	it's now possible to roll crystalline armor at start
2)	enchanting armor causes it to weigh 20% less for each + and 20% more
	for each -

1.00 Alpha - Feb 4/85
1)	quitting uses experience point score instead of gold
2)	corrected handling of weight of enchanted armor
3)	discovering a firetrap lights the room
4)	it's now possible to die from fire traps

1.00 Alpha - Feb 5/85
1)	changed weight of enchanted objects in wrong place.  now fixed
2)	minor fix to messages in trader.c
3)	changed the effect of a scroll of acquirement.  a blessed scroll
	now works as in old version, a normal or cursed scroll will
	allow acquirement of an object of random type.
4)	split rogue.c into rogue.c and monsdata.c

1.00 Alpha - Feb 10/85
1)	armor doesn't rust if you're not wearing any
2)	added 8 artifacts, now trying to make rogue compile again
3)	time window for restored games changed to 60s instead of 25s.

1.00 Alpha - Feb 13/85
1)	misc. tidying up of messages.  some changed to be wizard only
	messages
2)	one unique monster added, have not yet tested nastiness of beast
3)	changed chasing code to hopefully remove bug that stops running
	in a room even though monster is invisible or can surprise
4)	seeing distance is now a variable so that later enhancements can
	be made
5)	added apply command ('A') to make an artifact work (does nothing 
	right now)
6)	it is now possible to trip and fall down the stairs, and die
	in the process
7)	blessed objects weigh 20% less and cursed weigh 20% more
8)	fighting (but not to death) allowed until 1/3 of max hit points
9)	time of stiffening by basilisks, etc., is now randomized
10)	tidied up code to handle signals and autosaving
11)	poison pool traps implemented
12)	quaffing a potion of haste self when already hasted lasts a
	longer time than before
13)	if strength is high enough, the hero can break free of 
	a hold
14)	creation of artifacts now supported (sort of)
15)	scoring routines changed to track gold and experience separately.
	now i have to figure out how to set the gold to zero without
	resetting the score file
16)	gold is counted (including worth of objects) even for quitting and
	dying.  however, position in scorefile is determined by experience 
	points only
17)	three new scrolls 1) nothing - does nothing
			  2) silver plating - magic aimed weapons seldom miss
			  3) ownership - make weapons return
18)	6 types of food now - details still to be fixed up
19)	corrected handling of normal and cursed scrolls of acquirement

1.00 Alpha Feb 14/85
1)	creation of artifacts mostly working now.  no code to support
	their special functions yet
2)	corrected names of artifacts and food so the inventory routine
	gives correct case and plural forms of names
3)	handling of duration of enchanted food fixed

1.00 Alpha Feb 15/85
1)	creation, picking up, dropping, and throwing artifacts now apparently
	correct.  no functions yet implemented yet
2)	mad wizard changed to mad sorceress and is no longer confused.
	level, intelligence, experience points and damage increased
3)	nymphs try to steal the most valuable magic item carried now
4)	picking up an artifact gives experience equal to 0.1 of it's
	worth in gold
5)	new wizard command 'V' added to find the worth of an object

1.00 Alpha Feb 16/85
1)	monsters that steal magic and gold no longer vanish when they've 
	stolen an item.  instead, it turns invisible and tries to run away.
	a nymph isn't so bad, but watch out for the mad sorceress.
	the monster will carry around the item until killed
2)	picking up things with a full pack in a trading post no longer
	identifies it
3)	falling into a poison trap does not automatically poison current 
	weapon and there is a 75% probability of losing 1/3 hit points 
	and 2 strength
4)	buying anything in a trading post tells you what it is and all others
	of the same type
5)	quaffing a potion of healing at or near max hit points increases
	maximum by more
6)	a wand of nothing does nothing
7)	cursed scroll of ownership causes thrown weapon to always disappear

1.00 Alpha Feb 17/85
1)	corrected handling of wizard scorefile manipulation commands
2)	corrected code to create objects via the scroll of acquirement
3)	a cursed scroll of acquirement creates a cursed object
4)	wearing a ring of levitation allows you to move over any kind of
	trap without being harmed
5)	poisoned weapons now identified as such in inventory name

1.00 Alpha Feb 25/85
1)	corrected handling of scoring of gold for total winners
2)	changed mad sorceress to be non-unique to make dungeon really nasty
3)	added code to calculate cost of silver, poisoned, and owned weapons
4)	code to stop running when a monster appears corrected for when
	monster can surprise or is invisible

1.00 Alpha Mar 1/85
1)	cursed potion of see invisible does nothing when wearing ring
	of see invisible.
2)	putting on a ring of see invisible while blind cures blindness

1.01 Alpha Mar 4/85
1)	changed encryption scheme used by read/write routines to code
	supplied by Michael Mauldin (mlm@cmu-cs-cad.arpa)
2)	eating too much causes paralysis for a short time
3)	changed rnd (random integer in a certain range) routine to use
	a better algorithm
4)	changed version string for internal checking to something more
	useful

1.01 Alpha Mar 8/85
1)	changed inv_name to show silver weapons properly
2)	changed name of "silver weapon" scroll to "magic hitting"
3)	scrolls of ownership and magic hitting now prompt for weapon to
	apply scroll to
4)	rnd changed back to old algorithm because new one is SLOW

1.01 Alpha Mar 20/85
1)	picking up an artifact more than once does not add more experience
	points
2)      new unique and VERY NASTY monster added, Lucifer.  only appears
	on level one when you have an artifact on you.  he is NOT
	pleasant.  i am certain that he will prevent total winners until
	i can tune his parameters.

1.01 Alpha Mar 22/85
1)	changed maximum objects per normal level from 9 to 5
2)	changed monster window to half it's current value to stretch
	out the levels new monsters can appear over
3)	increased traps per level again from 20 to 25

1.01 Alpha Mar 28/85
1)	decreased abilities of Lucifer to try things out
2)	changed probability of food up and other stuff down
3)	changed probability of potion of gain level down

1.01 Alpha Apr 1/85
1)	changed traps per level up to 30
2)	fixed bug in wearing ring of cold resistance
3)	changed window for saving to 180s because save/restore with
	new algorithm is much slower
4)	added support for lairs of unique monsters, 1 in 15 chance of
	being summoned while going up the stairs
5)	trading posts can't appear until level 15, up from level 5
6)	you can't be blinded when wearing a ring of extra sight
7)	hit points per level gained/lost reduced to original values
8)	deleted some wizard commands and re-arranged some of the rest
9)	changed how wizard teleportation specifies type of level
10)	modified parameters of sucessfully striking a monster
11)	Lucifer devalued again

1.02 Alpha Apr 2/85
1)	reduced probability of being summoned at random while running around
2)	restored probability of hitting parameter
3)	doubled requirements for experience level changes

1.02 Alpha Apr 4/85
1)	restored requirements for experience level changes
2)	increased probability that a monster hits on an attack
3)	changed probability of food downwards and other stuff upwards
4)	changed probability of some scroll's cursed and blessed probabilities

1.02 Alpha Apr 5/85
1)	throne room monsters no longer hasted
2)	fixed messages for scrolls of magic hitting and ownership
3)	infinite loops in wanderer() due to trying to place a monster
	in a different room than the hero on a THRONE level
4)	changed format of scorefile to include what artifacts were
	retrieved
5)	initial attributes of a fighter increased
6)	Lucifer downgraded again (sigh)

1.02 Alpha Apr 12/85
1)	food probability adjusted upwards
2)	size of string to hold fruit food name increased
3)	monsters per treasure room increased to 20 from 15
4)	maximum number of magic objects per level increased from 5 to 7
5)	added code to differentiate a winner carrying all artifacts
	and some
6)	reduced probability of summoning

1.02 Alpha Apr 16/85
1)	monsters that can walk through stone are not affected by wand of
	antimatter.  so much for an easy kill of Lucifer
2)	throne rooms always contain treasure, up to 3 times as much as normal

1.02 Alpha Apr 23/85
1)	max monsters/treasures in a party room upped again from 20 to 30

1.02 Alpha Apr 26/85
1)	improved wizard outfitting command to start with more and better stuff
2)	fighters gain and lose 12 instead of 10 hit points max per level
3)	throne rooms always contain lots of treasure
4)	fixed message in experience level changes to include period

1.02 Alpha Apr 28/85
1)	monsters that can breathe can do so more than once with 50% chance
	after each use of losing (or retaining) ability
2)	catch zapping and bolts into darkened rooms, passages, and phased
	players in walls and flag as error for wizard
3)	mad sorceress improved in ability
4)	changing name of fruit in options now also changes name in rest of game
5)	handling of SIGINT and SIGQUIT corrected for when escaping to shell
	and returning.  used to exit with endit().  now does quit() to
	prompt before exiting
6)	options listing now includes name of option for the environment
	variable
7)	throne rooms made nastier by increasing hit points further and also
	decreasing AC of monster even more
8)	monsters below level 80 start getting nastier in a lot of ways
	and is level dependent (deeper == nastier)

1.02 Alpha Apr 29/85
1)	all monsters in throne rooms can now walk through walls
2)	past level 80, all monsters that can use breath weapons will never
	lose that ability
3)	Lucifer upgraded

1.02 Alpha Apr 30/85
1)	algorithm for nastier monsters below level 80 changed (nastier)
2)	potion of raise level made much rarer
3)	being drained a level is restored only half the time
4)	monsters in thone rooms can see invisible heros
5)	scrolls of acquirement are rarer and are more likely to be cursed

1.02 Alpha May 1/85
1)	Lucifer hit points upgraded
2)	Lucifer never loses ability to zap with breath weapon
3)	fixed bug in returning of weapons with blessed scroll of
	ownership read on them
4)	circular buffer implemented for messages and each line of buffer
	increased in size
5)	rings, weapons, sticks, and armor can explode if enchanted too much
6)	owned things show up that way in inventory

1.02 Alpha May 2/85
1)	length of time that all food lasts increased
2)	throwing a scare monster scroll curses it

1.02 Alpha May 3/85
1)	attacking rust monsters with bare hands causes segmentation faults
	fixed by checking for whether hero wields a weapon or not
2)	evil sorceresses (and nymphs) will steal anything, including
	what you're wearing, below level 95
3)	it's now imposssible to enchant a ring of slow digestion beyond 3
	since food consumption code is not designed to handle it

1.02 Alpha May 6/85
1)	adjusted probability of things exploding when enchanted too much from
	1 in 8 to 1 in 5
2)	being summoned while just wandering in the dungeon is changed
	to 1 in 99999 to make life interesting
3)	stick of fire now kills monsters that are flammable
4)	fixed bug in handling firetraps for monsters
5)	corrected new code to handle monsters running through fire traps

1.02 Alpha May 8/85
1)	fixed bug in wizard dungeon level change command
2)	total daemons changed from 30 to 60 to allow for new things
3)	fighting while blinded changed from "it" to "the monster"
4)	algorithm for making monsters nastier below level 80 made
	even nastier
5)	fire traps always burn even when levitated
6)	fixed monster name lookup in shoot_bolt when bolt misses
7)	monster lair traps implemented for levels below 50
8)	rust traps implemented to rust armor
9)	messages for CANRUST monsters hitting you after armor is
	destroyed is changed
10)	placement of player in a throne room corrected
11)	unique monsters are always awakened by the hero entering the room
12)	a monster with enough strength can shatter crystalline armor with
	a single blow
13)	a monster with enough strength can make the armor ring when hit,
	aggravating all monsters on the level
14)	monsters that can shriek can shatter crystalline armor
15)	strength of monsters below level 80 also increases with level
16)	check more often for null pointers when refering to current armor
	in fight.c and monster.c
17)	selling or dropping an artifact in a post loses it forever, but
	you can still go up the stairs as if you did have it.  same with
	it being stolen by a monster

1.02 Alpha May 10/85
1)	creation of firetraps done only when there is room in the traps array
2)	potion of extra hearing - cursed, normal and blessed
3)	potion of extra scent - cursed, normal, and blessed
4)	hero can smell or hear monsters whenever they appear in dungeon
	or possibly when he enters a room, always when potions have been
	quaffed

1.02 Alpha May 11/85
1)	scroll of food detection implemented
2)	corrected algorithm for blessed food and added message when
	eating it so people trying will know to try it again
3)	code to handle super food consumption added
4)	changed algorithm for ring of slow digestion food consumption
	to not use hardwired enchantment levels
5)	hearing and smelling new monster messages changed to reflect
	distance and rooms somewhat
6)	partial implementation of artifact powers completed
7)	many of minor malevolent and side effects implemented
8)	some major malevolent effects implemented
9)	Phial of Galadriel implemented
10)	Palantir of Might implemented

1.02 Alpha May 12/85
1)	fixed dying by fire traps to remove seg fault while trying to
	print reason for dying
2)	selling an artifact or having it stolen and vanishing when
	monster that stole it is killed loses the artifact permanently 
	and the ability to go upwards is lost if it's the only artifact 
	in the hero's possesion
3)	login name included in scorefile
4)	stick of invisibility - makes monsters appear or disappear
	cursed (all in room), normal(one in direction), blessed(one
	appears in direction)
5)	implemented Amulet of Yendor, Silmaril of Ea, Sceptre of Might,
	Wand of Orcus
6)	partial implementation of Magic Purse of Yendor
7)	20 units of food are consumed every time a artifact power is attempted
8)	code for blessed scrolls of magic mapping, gold detection,
	food detection, potions of magic detection and monster detection
	in place
9)	minimal code for wand of invisibility implemented

1.02 Alpha May 13/85
1)	minimal code for potions of super heroism and disguise added
2)	no healing when phased and in rock
3)	changed "owned" to "claimed" in inv_name() for weapons
4)	wand of invisibility implemented
5)	bug in removing rings of add ability fixed when unwearing one
6)	leaving rooms when wearing ring of illumination darkens it

1.02 Alpha May 14/85
1)	rewrote all code to handle changes in the five major player
	abilities
2)	completed implementation of the Crown of Might
3)	implemented blessed mapping and detection abilities
4)	more minor effects
5)	more major effects
6)	copy over login name to scorefile name entry only if it's
	not the same as the name entry started with
7)	falling down stairs probability shifted according to encumberance
8)	undead monsters are not affected by poison
9)	ring of regeneration restores hit points faster
10)	ring of sustain health stops disease and parasitic infections, but
	doesn't cure them

1.02 Alpha May 15/85
1)	fixed bugs in handling power boosted strength and dexterity
2)	implemented potions of disguise and superheroism

1.02 Alpha May 16/85
1)	changed potion of disguise to be like a scare monster scroll and
	shortened length of time it lasts
2)	implemented more minor effects
3)	cursed scroll of magic mapping done - forgets map
4)	fighting stops "hits" and "misses" messages to stop having to
	hit the spacebar all the time
5)	1 in 50 chance when fighting to stop fighting completely at random.
	a neater way of stopping fighting when neither side is hitting the
	other
6)	moving over some traps using the 'm' command can result in no
	trapping, especially if player is thief
7)	asleep on top of a sleep trap doesn't print many messages
	about what the trap is
8)	reduced nastiness of level-dependent monster characteristics
9)	make probability of losing breath weapon dungeon level dependent
10)	fixed bug in stopping running when a monster enters room
11)	Magic Purse of Yendor code in place but not tested

1.02 Beta May 17/85
1)	fixed bag of holding code for Magic Purse of Yendor
2)	can't put Magic Purse inside itself
3)	lowered probability of a nonthief moving over a trap successfully
4)	add contents of Purse to score
5)	added more major and minor effects
6)	lowered probability of an artifact being deactivated by a minor
	effect

1.02 Beta May 18/85
1)	check for no wielded weapon or no armor worn when being hit
	by breath weapon
2)	check for no wielded weapon when blasting it in default major
	effect of artifact activation
3)	changed many messages in minor effects to check for blindness
4)	it is possible to trip and stumble over your weapon, and die in
	the process.  poisoned weapons do a lot of damage to the hero
5)	fighting or shooting some wands at the quartermaster increases
	the cost of things and probability of things being cursed
	by other quartermasters and in trading posts.  monsters on level
	are aggravated
6)	fighters using the 'f' or 'F' commands are get bonus number
	of attacks dependent upon level per turn
7)	when not under influence of potions of extra scent or extra hearing,
	thieves have higher probability of hearing or smelling a monster
8)	cursed detection scrolls and potions implemented
9)	scroll of electrification implemented

1.02 Beta May 19/85
1)	five new rings added
2)	worth of artifacts increased by a factor of 10
3)	when msgline is blank and last message is requested via ^P,
	don't decrement message buffer index the same way since it was 
	not incremented to clear the line
4)	initial hit point bonus for constitutions above 15
5)	new command listen ('=') to listen for nearby monsters
6)	ring of breathing - player is unaffected by gases
7)	ring of free action - player can't be held or slowed except by an
	artifact side effect
8)	reduced duration of confusion after teleportation
9)	ring of wizardry - doubles spell and prayer ability for players
	who are not clerics nor magicians
10)	listen for monsters nearby with higher probability for thief
11)	ring of resurrection - you might come back from the grave: cursed,
	normal, and blessed versions
12)	ring of teleport control - get to choose position and might actually
	end up there: cursed, normal, and blessed versions
13)	corrected multi-attack code to allow only fighters
14)	cursed detection magic identifies itself for later in the dungeon
15)	silver weapons do twice damage to undead monsters
16)	source frozen for version as reference.  further updates sent
	out will be via context diffs

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