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NextHack v1.4.0

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@lrrosa lrrosa released this 28 Jun 19:00
v1.4.0
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One codebase, two binaries — nexthack.nex for the ZX Spectrum Next and nexthack128.tap for a real 128K.

New this release

  • A pet dog — every game starts you with a loyal dog. It heels at your side, bites adjacent monsters (and can be hurt or killed fighting them), and follows you up and down stairs, into shops and all. Walk into it to swap places, not attack.
  • Throwing (t) — the first ranged attack: pick a weapon and a direction and it flies until it strikes the first monster or thuds into a wall. It then lies on the floor where it lands, so you can walk over and pick it back up. Throwing your wielded weapon asks first.
  • Prayer (p) — call on your god to fix your worst trouble (cure starvation, heal a critical wound, lift poison/blindness/confusion, or uncurse an item), with a cooldown. Pray on an altar to lift the curses from everything you carry.
  • Search (s) — search the ground to reveal hidden traps as ^; a revealed trap still springs if you step on it.
  • A ? help screen listing every command, on both targets.

Under the hood, the fog-of-war pool moved into Bank 5 and each target gained a third code bank, reclaiming the resident RAM the new features needed.

See the CHANGELOG for the full list.

Run nexthack.nex on a ZX Spectrum Next or in CSpect. Load nexthack128.tap on a real 128K (or ZEsarUX); saving needs a DivMMC. Retrieve the Amulet of Yendor from Dlvl 50 and climb back out alive.

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