Comments on: An update of 0.6

By: KiloByte

KiloByte — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:01:33 +0000

The DOS port has been known to have grave bugs several months before 0.6 release, and no one bothered fixing them. A release where casting takes no MP would be a bad joke.

By: Rugxulo

Rugxulo — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:37:30 +0000

KiloByte, please e-mail me (@gmail) for further discussion.

I don’t grok C++, which is probably the main problem on my end. (You guys should’ve tested the “new” build process under DOSEMU before ever releasing 0.6.0, IMHO. Or at very least hosted my build. But you didn’t. That was no accident.)

By: KiloByte

KiloByte — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:30:48 +0000

Rugxulo: do you have fixes for the bugs in the DOS version? The code has not been removed, it’s just unmaintained with no one to fix it.

We may actually drop DOS permanently in the future, but right now it’s just a pile of bitrotten somewhat broken code that may be whipped into shape if someone steps up.

But considering the opinions towards, say, Windows 98, I don’t see anyone from the current dev team willing to do that work. If you have a set of patches, please send them in, though.

By: Rugxulo

Rugxulo — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:21:35 +0000

makke, you run the risk of angering the gods! ;-) DOS was dropped permanently, but I managed to do my own compile of (original) 0.6.0. Yet nobody wanted it. :-(

By: makke

makke — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:40:28 +0000

I am missing the dos version since 0.6 …
I would play the windows console version, but it’s so smallish and the colours are ugly..

Wouldn’t it be possible to have it look like the dos version, or maybe there’s a trick I can use to make it appear as such?

By: Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:45:50 +0000

I’m having trouble changing my Mac OSX version of the console game to the clear messages setting through init.txt . At the top of the init document it says I have to drag it on a mac computer to ~/.crawlrc in order for my new command to take effect. Where can I find that folder(?) on my mac?
Thanks!

By: grantb

grantb — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:14:46 +0000

THANKS you rock!

By: KiloByte

KiloByte — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:03:28 +0000

OSX stuff is now available. Sorry for the delay.

By: David Gardner

David Gardner — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:07:47 +0000

I’m all about OSX… so, yeah…. :)

By: grantb

grantb — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 05:05:18 +0000

@David Gardner – 6.1 is available on the sourceforge files section, but unfortunately no OSX binaries yet. Someone fix this please?!?

By: Timbermaw

Timbermaw — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 02:10:53 +0000

It’s online on CAO (http://crawl.akrasiac.org/), and the windows builds were last updated today, so….
Anyway, you should play on the online server!

By: David Gardner

David Gardner — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:09:38 +0000

I don’t see the update in the Downloads section… so I assume you’re talking about work in progress?

By: Will

Will — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:13:02 +0000

I’m still a DCSS newbie and have yet to even get a rune. But thank you for allowing me to play a Rouge that is still actively being developed. That, as a player, is highly rewarding and appreciated.

By: KiloByte

KiloByte — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:53:15 +0000

It doesn’t. That bug is nowhere as significant as vampiric instadeaths and requires a few distruptive changes to the code so no one bothered backporting it to 0.6. This doesn’t mean it can’t be done, though.

By: Tenaya

Tenaya — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:02:15 +0000

Does this update fix the source for Hell damage?